Kaneka
カネカ
Business focus
MedTech, BioTech & Pharma
Description
Kaneka Corporation was founded in 1949 and is headquartered in Osaka, Japan; it is a diversified chemicals manufacturer with over $5 billion in revenue and more than 9,600 employees worldwide. Kaneka began producing highly purified Coenzyme Q10 from yeast fermentation in 1977 using proprietary technology and launched Kaneka Ubiquinol (the reduced, more bioavailable form of CoQ10) in 2007; it remains a global leading supplier of CoQ10/ubiquinol raw material for nutraceuticals.