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Japan

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Chemical industry

The chemical industry comprises the companies that produce industrial chemicals. Central to the modern world economy, it converts raw materials into more than 70,000 different products.-Products:...

 and pharmaceutical company. It is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange with a market capitalisation of USD 3.9 billion. It operates in five main business segments: synthetic fibres; films and plastics; pharmaceuticals and home health care; trading and retail; and IT and new products. Consolidated turnover for 2004 is USD 8.7 billion. Teijin has approximately 21,000 employees worldwide.

See also

• Polycarbonate
  Polycarbonate
  PolycarbonatePhysical PropertiesDensity 1.20–1.22 g/cm3Abbe number 34.0Refractive index 1.584–1.586FlammabilityV0-V2Limiting oxygen index25–27%Water absorption – Equilibrium0.16–0.35%Water absorption – over 24 hours0.1%...
  
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• Tenax
  Tenax
  Tenax is the brandname of Toho Tenax owned by Teijin for a carbon fiber.Tenax-7R is an adhesive particularly suited for welding plastics .-Other uses:Tenax is also a brand name for Poly, a porous polymer....
  
   - carbon fiber
• Teijin Aramid
  Teijin Aramid
  Teijin Aramid, formerly known as Teijin Twaron, is a company in The Netherlands that produces various high-strength fibers for industrial purposes, most notably their Kevlar-like para-aramid, Twaron. Twaron finds applications in numerous markets, such as automotive , aerospace, civil engineering,...
  
  
  • Technora
    Technora
    Technora is an Aramid that is useful for a variety of applications that require high strength or chemical resistance. It is a brandname of the company Teijin.-Production:...
    
    
  • Twaron
    Twaron
    Twaron is the brandname of Teijin Aramid for a para-aramid. It is a heat-resistant and strong synthetic fibre developed in the early 1970s by the Dutch company AKZO, division Enka, later Akzo Industrial Fibers. The research name of the para-aramid fibre was originally Fiber X, but it was soon...
    
    
  • Sulfron
  • Teijinconex
• Aramid
  Aramid
  Aramid fibers are a class of heat-resistant and strong synthetic fibers. They are used in aerospace and military applications, for ballistic rated body armor fabric and ballistic composites, in bicycle tires, and as an asbestos substitute. The name is a portmanteau of "aromatic polyamide"...
  
  

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