Showa Denko (SDK) is a Japanese-based producer of petrochemicals, chemicals, electronics, inorganic materials, aluminium materials and aluminium fabricated products. For the year ended December 2008, it had sales of Y1,003bn and employed around 11,756 people.
SDK will enhance its value through the “provision of useful and safe products”. It classifies its operations into two categories of growth businesses and base businesses.
The growth businesses consist of “growth drivers” and businesses to be developed at an accelerated pace. SDK will promote the growth by developing individualised and competitive products, deepening its material technologies and developing its interconnections.
Showa Denko’s base businesses will be positioned as “cash cows” that support the growth businesses. SDK will also increase the competitiveness of base businesses and lay the groundwork for long-term sustainable growth, thereby striving to fulfil its corporate social responsibility initiatives.
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Key Personnel
Chairman: Mitsuo Ohashi
President and CEO: Kyohei Takahashi
Senior managing corporate officer: Norikuni Imoto
Director and managing corporate officer: Tetsuo Tamada
Chief financial officer and Director: Ichiro Nomura
Executive officer and director: Shinji Sakai
Director: Toshio Ohi
Director: Takashi Miyazaki
Director: Kenji Tsukamoto
Director: Hideo Ichikawa
Director: Shunichi Shiraishi
(Updated November 2009)
Contacts
Showa Denko KK
13-9, Shiba Daimon 1-chome
Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8518
Japan
Tel: +813 5470 3533/3235
Fax: +813 3431 6215
Email sdk_prir@sdk.co.jp
www.sdk.co.jp
Showa Denko
Company Structure
Showa Denko (SDK) operates in petrochemicals, chemicals, electronics, inorganic materials, aluminium materials and aluminium fabricated products. The company was established by the merger of Nihon Denki Kogyo K.K. and Showa Hiryo K.K. on 1 June 1939.
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Strategy & Financial Highlights
Showa Denko will continue to focus on its established medium-term consolidated business plan, named “Passion Project”. Under the plan, the company will enhance its value through the “provision of useful and safe products”. The Passion Project is said to serve as an action plan to enable Showa Denko to establish the groundwork for sustainable growth. It classifies its operations into two categories of “growth businesses” and “base businesses”. (Edited from annual report and company website). ICIS also provides you with key financial data listed in table form.
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