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AKO KASEI Co., LTD.
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• Head Office
329 Sakoshi, Ako-shi, Hyogo-ken 678-0193
Tel: 0791-48-1111 (main)
Fax: 0791-48-1735
• Tokyo Branch
Amashio building 3F, 2-24-9 Hyakunin-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-0073
Tel: 03-5330-2911 (main)
Fax: 03-5330-2915
• Ako Plant
329 Sakoshi, Ako-shi, Hyogo-ken 678-0193
Tel: 0791-48-1721 (main)
Fax: 0791-48-1715
• Office for Deep-Seawater Business
1828-5 Muroto-misak-choi, Muroto-shi, Kochi-ken 781-7101
Tel: 0887-24-2820 (main)
Fax: 0887-24-2821
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| Founded/Incorporated
on: November 25, 1971 |
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| Capital:
30,000,000JPY |
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| Number of employees:
210 |
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< Ako – city of salt >
Ako City has a long history of salt manufacture with salt pans.
We are a company that originated from such a salt manufacturer (at that time called
Ako Higashihama Engyo Kumiai – Ako East Shore Salt Partnership).
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| 1947 |
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Our Chemical Department was set up in Ako Higashihama. It studied
the nature and functions of the ingredients of seawater and developed products
for such various areas as food, medicine, chemical industry, steel industry, ceramic
industry and fertilizer. |
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| 1971 |
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Due to our “salt manufacturing with ion-exchange resin films”
that enabled efficient production of salt, the conventional way of making salt
with salt pans was superseded (Salt Industry Reorganization Law was enacted).
For this reason, Ako Higashihama Engyo Kumiai was dissolved. Built upon of our
Chemical Department, a new company called Ako Kasei Co., Ltd. was incorporated. |
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| 1973 |
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In response to the public need for natural salt, the company developed
a natural, mineral-rich salt called“Ako no amashio”. After that, the
company developed a series of products related to “Ako no amashio”(Salt)
in the field of table salt. In the field of coagulant for tofu, the company developed
and sold coagulants with high functions. On the other hand, in the field of medicine
and other industries, the company developed and sold such products as highly purified
medicines, titanic black pigments produced by a special baking technique and magnesium
compounds with special functions and shapes. |
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| 1974 |
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The company established a Tokyo Office in order to survey user
needs more quickly and reflect them in development of new products. |
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| 1990 |
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For business expansion in response to the Information Society,
the company reorganized the Tokyo Office into the Tokyo Branch. It then moved
to its present location. |
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| 1995 |
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The company discovered the possibilities of deep-seawater. Using
its experience and techniques in the field of oceanic science, it started to study
deep-seawater that is rich in nutrition, pure and of low temperature. |
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| 1999 |
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The company successfully commercialized a deep-seawater product.
It started to sell “Amami no mizu”(Deep-Seawater) and “Amami no
shio”(Deep-Seawater Salt) which are rich in magnesium as an ingredient. |
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| 2000 |
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As a production base for Deep-Seawater-related products, the Office
for Deep-Seawater Business was completed in Muroto-City, Kochi-Prefecture, where
the company started further development to commercialize Deep-Seawater products.
The company also opened its Tokyo Show Room on the first floor of the Tokyo Branch
and set up a communication center as a customer service window. |
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| 2002 |
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The company established a visitor passage in the food plant Amashio
salt manufacturing facilities for customers to view the manufacturing process.
It started to sell “Kodawari no tonyu ”(Special Soymilk) and “Umi
no shinsosui nigari” (Deep-Seawater Bittern) as new products using deep-seawater. |
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| 2003 |
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The company purchased its own capital stocks from Unitika Ltd.
As a result, on April 1, the new independent Ako Kasei Co., Ltd. was started.
To hear customers’ voices directly, the company opened the Healthy Terrace
Amami on the first floor of the Tokyo Branch. It also incorporated Akol Co., Ltd.
as a mail-order dealer. |
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COPYRIGHT(C)
2009, AKO KASEI CO., LTD. ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
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