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- Since 1926 -
Profile
・Established: June 24, 1926
・Capital: ¥89 billion (as of March 31, 2008)
・Net Sales: ¥418 billion (as of March 31, 2008, consolidated)
・Employees: 6,770 (as of March 31, 2008, consolidated)
・Major Businesses:
- Vinyl acetate derivatives (Poval, EVAL, KURALON, etc.)
- Isoprene chemicals (TPE, Aroma chemicals, Pharmaceutical
intermediates, etc.)
- Man-made leather
- Environment-related (PVA gel, Industrial membranes, etc.)
- Medical (Dental materials, Hemocatharsis adsorption devices, etc.)
Kuraray’s History
1926 Kurashiki Kenshoku
PVA film commercialized
1962
1920s Co.,Ltd. established 1960s
1964 Polyester staple / CLARINO
1928 Rayon commercialized commercialized
1958 Poval commercialized
(started to sell at a market)
Kuraray’s History
2002 Production of Rayon ceased
1980s 1983 Cement reinforcing 2000s Acquisition of Clariant’s PVA-
KURALON developed related products
1986 Production of EVAL resin 2002 Production of SEPTON started
started at U.S. at U.S.
2004 Acquisition of the PVB film
business of HT Troplast
1990 VECTRAN / SEPTON 2005 Acquisition of VECTRAN
1990s commercialized
business of U.S.-based
1998 KURALON K-II cmmercialized Celanese Advanced Materials
1999 Production of Poval resin Inc.
started at Singapore
Production of EVAL resin 2008 All outstanding shares of
started at Belgium POVAL ASIA PTE LTD
acquired and company made a
GENESTAR commercialized subsidiary
Net Sales (consolidated)
417.6
(Billion¥)
400 385.3
375.1
354.9
332.1
300
200
0
‘03 ‘04 ‘05 ‘06 ‘07 FY
Round off the figure to the nearest 0.1 billion
Profit (consolidated)
(Billion ¥) 48.1
50
Operating Income
Net Income 40.2
40 38.3
33.2
30 28.0
25.6
22.4
21.2
18.5
20
15.2
10
0
FY03 FY04 FY05 FY06 FY07
Round off the figure to the nearest 0.1 billion
Market Position
Kuraray holds the world’s No.1 market
share in the following businesses.
z Poval, polyvinyl alcohol resin (35%)
z PVA film for LCDs (80%)
z EVAL, ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (70%)
z Vinylon, polyvinyl alcohol fiber (80%)
z Clarino, man-made leather (25%)
(Estimated by Kuraray)
Maintaining International Competitiveness
As of July,2008
Products for Environmental Business
Purification
Purificationofofwater
water
High-performance High-precision
High-precision
High-performance for
forpotable
potableuse.
use.
membranes physical
physical
membranes Water
Watertreatment
treatmentfor
for
separation
separation industrial
industrialuses.
uses.
Wastewater
Wastewatertreatment
treatment
and
andreuse.
reuse.
Municipal
Municipaland
and
High-Performance
High-Performance industrial
industrialwastewater
wastewater
PVA
PVAgel
gel biological
biologicaltreatment
treatment treatment
treatmentand
and
for
forwastewater
wastewater sludge
sludgereduction
reduction
Absorption Kuraray
KurarayChemical
Chemical
Activated
Activated Absorptionof
ofcontaminants
contaminants Co.,
carbon in
inwater
waterand
andgas
gas Co.,Ltd.
Ltd.
carbon (No.1
(No.1brand
brandin
inJapan)
Japan)
Kuraray Hollow Fiber Membrane Products
Particle Size and Membrane Techniques
Reverse Ultra Filtration
Micro Filtration (MF) General Filtration
Osmosis(RO) (UF)
Polyvinylidene-fluoride (hydrophilic)
Hydrophilic treatment
Less fouling
Kuraray Kuraray Other Other
PVDF PSF PSF PVDF
Features of Kuraray Membrane Products
4. Stainless-steel housing
Can be installed outdoors.
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UF Cartridge
GS
Type C, S
UF Cartridge
Ultra pure water Type C, S
Point of use
recycle process
SF
Pre-treatment for RO Membranes
GS module
pore size: 0.02μm
m. surface area: 42 m2
Top market
share
SF element (external)
(pore size:0.02μm) T7 tank module : element×7
Membrane surface area:7m2 Membrane surface area:49 m2
Kuraray Products for Semiconductor and
Photovoltaic Industries (recycle of silicon and ultra pure water)
Recycled by filtration with Kuraray
Recycle
Recycle of
of coolant
coolant original large pore (2.5µm) membrane.
for
for wire-saw
wire-saw process
process
Ordinary waste
Silicon Multi-crystal
material silicon ingot Silicon wafer PV module
PV cell
Slicing
Semiconductor
Single-crystal Ingot processing
ingot Dicing,
back grinding
Silicon recycle
Original loose-end
structure
Silicon
Silicon Recycle
Recycle of
of Hollow fiber
ultra
ultra pure
pure Recycle
Recycle of
of membrane
Ordinary (wasted
(wasted oror
recycled)
recycled) water
water and
and ultra
ultra pure
pure
waste High efficiency
silicon
silicon water
water to drain
suspended solids
Coagulant
Internal pressure UF
(Installed in 1997)
Ogose Town, Saitama Pref.
Produced by Kurita Water Industries Ltd.
4,000 m3/d
Large Pore: External Dead-end Filtration
Raw Water
Coagulating Sand Large
(River, Well, Disinfection Distribution
Lake, Spring etc.)
Sedimentation Filtration Pore
(2.0μm)
Coagulant
Raw Water
Raw Water
Tank
Effluent
Large pore
Large Pore: Example of Installation
One of the largest potable water plant using membrane filtration in Japan.
Raw water tank Filtration units Disinfection
30,000 m3/d
(Installed in 2004)
Distribution
Pump-free
Shallow well operation
Hamura City,
Tokyo Pref.
Produced by
Suido Kiko Co., Ltd.
Applications of Kuraray Membrane Products
Overwhelmingly top
market share in Japan
Acid-resistant module
Applications of Kuraray Membrane Products
1.Ultra pure water treatment:
Pretreatment of RO membrane
Final filter of ultra pure water plant
Point of use
Recycle
2.Potable water treatment
3.Purification of beverages, chemicals
4.Recycle:
Hot water
Silicon
Absorbent for absorption refrigerator (LiBr soln.)
Filtration of Hot Water
(recycle of boiler drainage)
PSV filter
Protozoa, Metazoa
Microscopic
Microscopicstructure
structure
Only bacteria enter PVA gel
Only this
retained
Bacteria
Protozoa
Metazoa
Examples of bio-carriers
Microscopic
Microscopicstructure
structure
Kuraray PVA-Gel
Most of them do not have
porous structures like PVA-Gel.
(bacteria is retained only on the
surface with protozoa and
metazoa.)
Characteristics of PVA-Gel
Ⅰ.PVA-gel
Ⅰ.PVA-gel has
has aa micro-porous
micro-porous structure
structure in
in which
which
bacteria
bacteria can
can be
be retained.
retained.
Ⅱ.Quite
Ⅱ.Quite high
high load
load is
is possible.
possible.
(5
(5 times
times or
or much
much higher
higher than
than conventional
conventional activated
activated sludge)
sludge)
Ⅲ.PVA-gel
Ⅲ.PVA-gel can
can also
also be
be used
used for
for biological
biological nitrification
nitrification
and
and denitrification
denitrification processes.
processes.
Ⅳ.The
Ⅳ.The amount
amount of
of excess
excess sludge
sludge can
can be
be reduced
reduced or
or eliminated.
eliminated.
(We
(We have
have some
some special
special techniques
techniques to
to reduce
reduce excess
excess sludge
sludge
dramatically
dramatically with
with PVA-gel.)
PVA-gel.)
Comparison of Capability
Mixture of Bacteria,
Conventional system protozoa, metazoa, etc.
有 3
Only effective bacteria 機
Volume load
PVA gel tank
物 x6
分 2
解
能
Countless 力 1
bacteria
are retained in
0
PVA gel. Activated
活性汚泥 PVA gel
PVAゲル
sludge
High Efficiency and Low Excess Sludge
Conventional system Sedimentation tank
Effluent
Activated sludge tank
Activated Effluent
sludge Sludge is returned only to
the activated sludge tank.
Animal waste
17%
Sludge reduction challenge
PVA Gel: Sludge Reduction System
Conventional system Sedimentation tank
Effluent
Activated sludge tank
Excess sludge
(about 50% of BOD)
Protozoa,
Protozoa Bacteria
metazoa, and
and grow
bacteria,
metazoa inside
grow on the
surface. PVA gel
Excess sludge
Protozoa
Metazoa 0.08 Bacteria
Bacteria (/day)
Sludge reduction rate
0.06
汚
泥
消
0.04
Sludge reduction
Only this 滅
retained in 速 becomes easier
PVA gel Bacteria 度
0.02
Protozoa
0
Metazoa
活性汚泥
Activated sludge ゲル汚泥
PVA gel
Kuraray Sludge Reduction System
Sedimentation type (TYPE-S) Sedimentation tank
Sludge Effluent
reduction tank
The most cost effective
PVA gel tank for conversion of
existing activated sludge
process
No
Noexcess
excesssludge
sludge
for
for10
10years!
years!
X 1.5
Sedimentation tank
Example: Sludge Reduction System (Type-M, in Taiwan)
・85% of the wastewater
RO can be recycled as
membrane ultra pure water.
・Greatly reduced
PVA gel + excess organic sludge
sludge by autolysis.
reduction
(installed
underground)
Submerged membrane
Kuraray