R&D Dept.
Combining our expertise on acrylic synthesis with new technology to develop the next key products!
Innovation through flexible thinking
Our business is not just receiving orders for and producing generic products. Throughout our history, SHIN-NAKAMURA CHEMICAL has created new products as an R&D-focused manufacturer, with monomers, oligomers, polymers, and compounds as our core technologies. In order to be able to respond even more flexibly to customer needs on each individual order, we reorganized our R&D Dept. in 2018 when we welcomed in our 80th anniversary.
More specifically, we shifted the group from being categorized by product to categorization by function (development stage). In addition to placing a customer-oriented focus on development, we are expanding our joint development projects with universities and other external bodies and striving to create the future core products.
Combining expertise and ideas to create something completely new from scratch
Guided by our mission to supply society with the products it needs by solving our customers’ issues, we were the first company in Japan to successfully mass produce UV curable resin. This has dramatically increased the potential of UV and supported consumer lifestyles in a variety of situations.
Applications for UV-curable resin have expanded from UV printing on containers and packaging to the printed circuit boards of semiconductors. They are even now used in color resist materials, hard coating, and more. We have a large share of the global market for LCD-related products. The agricultural field is another area into which we have expanded, with applications such as the cultivation of seed rice. Our materials are in the spotlight as a means of helping to save manpower as agricultural populations fall.
Our core technologies alone are not enough to meet the abstract needs of our customers, who at times have only a vague idea of what they want. We need to put aside our conventional wisdom and think from a neutral standpoint.
With electronic vehicles becoming mainstream, the age of autonomous driving is imminent. There is no doubt that the OEL market will also enter a new phase. In order to avoid missing out on opportunities and remain relevant, we need to grasp potential demand rather than allowing ourselves to be guided solely by existing needs. Going forward, we will communicate our ideas (our products, or “seeds”). We will also work concurrently to minimize our environmental impact by initiatives such as reducing VOCs.