Ube Industries
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| Public KK | |
| Traded as | : : 4208 Nikkei 225 Component |
| Industry | Chemicals |
| Founded | June 1897 |
| Founder | Sukesaku Watanabe |
| Headquarters | Seavans North Building, 1-2-1, Shibaura, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8449, Japan (Tokyo head office) 1978-96 Kogushi, Ube, Yamaguchi 755-8633, Japan (Ube head office) |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Michio Takeshita (president and CEO) |
| Products | |
| Revenue | (¥ 650.5 billion JPY) (FY 2013) |
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Number of employees
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11,225 (consolidated as of March 31, 2014) |
| Website | Official website |
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Footnotes / references |
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$ 122 million USD (FY 2013)
Ube Industries, Ltd. (宇部興産株式会社 Ube Kōsan Kabushiki-gaisha?) is a Japanese chemical company manufacturing chemicals, plastics, battery materials, pharmaceuticals, cement, construction materials, and machinery.
The company was founded in 1897 when Sukesaku Watanabe —an industrialist, a member of the House of Representatives of Japan and a deputy mayor of Ube— established Okinoyama Coal Mine, the predecessor of the present Ube industries.
Since then, the company has established six core business units: Chemicals & plastics, specialty chemicals & products, cement, pharmaceuticals, machinery and metal products, energy and environment.
The company is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchane and , and is a constituent of the Nikkei 225 stock index.
Ube Industries is a member of the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFJ) keiretsu.
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