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UBE Corporation
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| Company type | Public (K.K) |
|---|---|
| TYO: 4208 FSE: 4208 Nikkei 225 Component | |
| Industry | Chemicals |
| Founded | June 1897 |
| Founder | Sukesaku Watanabe |
| Headquarters | Seavans North Building, 1-2-1, Shibaura, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8449, Japan (Tokyo head office) 1978-96 Kogushi, Ube, Yamaguchi 755-8633, Japan (Ube head office) |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Michio Takeshita (president and CEO) |
| Products | |
| Revenue |  $ 6.3 billion USD (FY 2013)
(¥ 650.5 billion JPY) (FY 2013) |
| $ 122 million USD (FY 2013)
(¥ 12.6 billion JPY) (FY 2013) | |
Number of employees | 9,849 (consolidated as of March 31, 2022) |
| Website | Official website |
| Footnotes / references [1][2] | |
UBE Corporation (UBE株式会社, Yū-bī-ī Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese chemical company manufacturing chemicals, plastics, battery materials, pharmaceuticals, cement, construction materials, and machinery.[2]
The former company name is Ube Industries, Ltd. (宇部興産株式会社, Ube Kōsan Kabushiki-gaisha)
The company was founded in 1897 when Sukesaku Watanabe —an industrialist, a member of the House of Representatives of Japan and a deputy mayor of Ube— established Okinoyama Coal Mine, the predecessor of the present Ube industries.
Since then, the company has established six core business units: Chemicals & plastics, specialty chemicals & products, cement, pharmaceuticals, machinery and metal products, energy and environment.
The company is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and Fukuoka Stock Exchange, and is a constituent of the Nikkei 225 stock index.[3]
Ube Industries is a member of the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFJ) keiretsu.
- ^ "Company Outline". Ube Industries. Retrieved September 19, 2014.
- ^ a b "Company Profile". Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved September 19, 2014.
- ^ "Components:Nikkei Stock Average". Nikkei Inc. Retrieved September 18, 2014.
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