Nippon Soda Co., Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, develops, produces, processes, imports, markets, sells, and exports chemicals, agrochemicals, and other products in Japan and internationally. The company offers agrichemicals, such as fungicides, insecticides, acaricides, and herbicides; pharmaceutical excipients, including hydroxypropyl cellulose, sodium stearyl fumarate, and diaminomaleonitrile; specialty chemicals, such as organic titanate, magnesium ethylate, liquid-1, 2-polybutadiene, o-tolidine diisocyanate, adhesive agents for film lamination, photoresist base resins, developers for thermal paper, epoxy catalyst, permethyl polysilane, and crown ethers; water treatment chemicals comprising calcium hypochlorite, uroliths remover, chelating agent for heavy metal, photo catalyst, bactericides, algaecides, termiticide, and treatment systems for PCBs; and chlor-alkali chemicals, including caustic soda, hydrochloric acid, chlorine, sodium hypochlorite, sodium metal, sodium alcoholates, sodium cyanide, potassium cyanide, phosphorus trichloride, and phosphorus oxychloride. It provides molded synthetic resin products, oxygen absorbers, dehumidifying agents, and household sundries; fumigant; non-ferrous metals and industrial chemicals; industrial equipment and devices; construction-related products; feed additives; and veterinary drugs. In addition, the company is involved in the provision of warehousing, freight forwarding, customs brokerage, insurance agency, and leasing; cargo auto transport; integrated planning and design, management, construction, sales, and consulting for industrial and other capital investments, machinery, piping, and civil engineering; civil engineering design, construction, land preparation, and soil and stone mining; information research; information collection and services; and operation of test plots. The company was incorporated in 1920 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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