Kurita Water Industries Ltd.
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Traded as | (TYO: 6370) |
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Founded | July 13, 1949 |
Headquarters | Tokyo, Japan |
Key people | Toshiyuki Nakai (President) |
Number of employees | 4600 |
Website | http://www.kurita.co.jp |
Kurita Water Industries Ltd. (original name "栗田工業株式会社"), a Japanese manufacturer, provides water treatment chemicals and facilities as well as process treatment chemicals. Haruo Kurita, who previously served in the navy, has founded the company in 1949. His first business was the chemical treatment of navy boilers. During the 50´s Kurita Water Industries expanded the portfolio and started with the water treatment facilities business, chemical cleaning business (Kurita Engineering Co., Ltd.) and maintenance services. In her second decade, the 60´s, Kurita Water Industries entered the process treatment market, especially in the pulp and paper, petrochemical and steel industries. Since the mid of the 70´s up to now, Kurita Water Industries established 14 overseas subsidiaries and affiliates. Since 2003 Kurita Water Industries is listed in the Nature Stock Index (NAI = Natur-Aktien-Index).
History
1949 Founded upon chemical water treatment business (boiler water treatment chemicals), the founder of the company, who had previously served in the Japanese navy, starts selling boiler water treatment chemicals based on the navy boiler technology.
1951 Entry into water treatment facilities business
1951 Establishment of first R&D center
1953 Start-up of chemical cleaning business
1958 Expansion of maintenance services
1961 Listed stock on the second section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange and the Osaka Securities Exchange
1962 Listed stock on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange and the Osaka Securities Exchange
1962 Establishment of second R&D center
1965 New chemical product line for process treatment
1973 Entry into the electronics industry
1985 Establishment of third R&D center
1986 Deployment of tool cleaning business
1991 Launch of soil remediation business
2001 Start of consulting services for hedging soil pollution risks. Land Solution Inc. established as a consulting company dealing in soil remediation.
2002 Launch of ultrapure water supply business
2004 Establishment of Kurita Water Industries (Suzhou) Ltd. in China
2005 Establishment of fourth R&D center
2015 Acquisition of the Water, Paper and Aluminum compounds business from BK Giulini and foundation of Kurita Europe APW GmbH
Products
Facilities | Chemicals |
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Ultrapure water production systems | Boiler water treatment chemicals |
Water treatment systems | Cooling water treatment chemicals |
Wastewater treatment systems | Wastewater treatment chemicals |
Wastewater reclamation systems | Process treatment chemicals |
Equipment and systems for water treatment chemicals | |
Contract-based services |
Business fields
- Supply of water treatment facilities
- Supply of water and process treatment chemicals
- Soil and groundwater remediation - rejuvenating mother earth while adding new value
- Operation and maintenance of water treatment facilities, chemical cleaning, tool cleaning, manufacture and sale of products for general households, analysis of water quality
References
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See also
- Kurita Europe GmbH, Germany
- Kurita Europe APW GmbH, Germany
- Kurita do Brasil Ltda., Brazil
- Kurita America Inc., U.S.A.
- Kurita Water Industries (Dalian) Co., Ltd., China
- Kurita Water Sdn.Bhd., Malaysia
- Hansu Ltd., Republic of Korea
- Hansu Technical Service Ltd., Republic of Korea
- Kurita Singapore Pte Ltd, Singapore