Japan Synthetic Rubber (JSR) is a manufacture of synthetic rubbers and elastomers, emulsions, plastics and fine chemicals.
JSR’s elastomers business manufactures synthetic rubbers for both automotive and non-automotive applications. Its emulsions unit produces latexes for the paper and carpet manufacturing industries. JSR’s plastics are used in automotive, electrical appliance and office equipment. Its fine chemicals have applications in semiconductors, displays and optical materials.
JSR will launch several new products along with its environment and energy and healthcare-related businesses. Cost reduction will remain a priority for JSR and its goal is to use technological innovation to increase earnings across the entire company and establish a more “powerful” operating framework.
Other focuses include sustaining strong growth by leveraging the foundation for growth that it has already put in place during the previous medium-term business plan. JSR is also laying the groundwork for a new phase of growth in order to achieve a big jump during the next medium-term business plan.
Looking ahead, JSR envisions an organisation with activities that extend well beyond its existing materials and technologies by adding precision processing technology and frontier materials. In particular, it intends to create special markets by targeting opportunities associated with the information electronics materials business.
JSR is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, with around 5,256 employees and sales of Yen352.5bn in the financial year ended 31 March 2009.
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Key Personnel
Representative director and chairman: Yoshinori Yoshida
Representative director and president (strategic businesses): Mitsunobu Koshiba
Executive managing director (finance and corporate communications): Tsugio Haruki
Executive managing director (procurement and logistics): Seiichi Hasegawa
Managing director (corporate planning and HR): Masaki Hirose
Managing director (R&D): Hozumi Sato
Managing director (fine chemicals): Yasuki Sajima
Director and senior officer (petrochemicals): Kouichi Kawasaki
Director and senior officer (manufacturing and technology): Hisao Hasegawa
Senior officer: Toshiyuki Fujimoto
Senior officer: Atsushi Kumano
Senior officer: Shin-ichiro Iwanaga
Senior officer: Yasuhisa Nagahiro
Officer: Yoshiyuki Ohashi
Officer: Takashi Wakabayashi
Officer: Tatsushi Kawai
Officer: Takashi Ukachi
Officer: Nobuo Kawahashi
Officer: Takatoshi Nagatomo
(Updated July 2009)
Contacts
6-10, Tsukiji 5-chome
Chuo-ku
Tokyo 104-8410
Japan
www.jsr.co.jp
JSR Corporation
Company Structure
Japan Synthetic Rubber (JSR) is a manufacture of synthetic rubbers and elastomers, emulsions and plastics. It is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, with around 5,000 employees. It is split into four segments: elastomers; emulsions; plastics; and fine chemicals and other products.
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Strategy & Financial Highlights
Japan Synthetic Rubber (JSR) states that it is focused on executing strategies faster in order to reach even higher goals. Its sights are set not only on the final targets of its current medium term business plan, but also on quickly advancing to its next stage of growth. ICIS also provides you with key financial data listed in table form.
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