Adeka Corporation engages in chemicals, food, and life sciences businesses. The company offers polymer additives, such as antioxidants, UV absorbers/hindered amine light stabilizers, nucleating agents/clarifying agents, metal deactivators/additives for filled polymers, flame retardants, epoxy type stabilizers/processability improvers/lubricants/water dispersion type stabilizers; plasticizers/PVC stabilizers; and photo/thermal curing materials, initiators, polymer materials, resist materials, thermal paper materials, semiconductor materials, circuit formation, and resin materials. Its chemical products also include water borne, epoxy, low chlorine epoxy, and urethane resins; epoxy resin adhesive; surface specialties, such as general-purpose and functional surfactants, functional cosmetic ingredients, lubricant additives, and base materials for lubricants; propylene glycol, peroxygen chemicals, metal soaps, ethanol preparation, and inorganic chemicals; and inducing joint filler and sealing materials, as well as civil engineering and construction materials. The company provides its chemical products to electronics and IT, plastics and rubber, personal care, industrial, liquid crystal display, automotive, and building and construction industries, as well as paints, coatings, and adhesives industries. In addition, it offers food products, such as margarines, shortening, fats and oils for chocolate, frying and cooking oil, whipped cream, cream for kneading, fillings, mayonnaise, and others. Further, the company engages in the plant design, construction management, equipment maintenance, logistics, warehousing, vehicle leasing, real estate, insurance agency services. The company was formerly known as Asahi Denka Co., Ltd. and changed its name to Adeka Corporation in May 2006. Adeka Corporation was incorporated in 1917 and is headquartered in Arakawa, Japan.
