Kuraray : Expanding Production Capacity at Kuraray Noritake Dental’s Miyoshi Plant
December 17, 2023 at 10:03 pm EST
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Kuraray Noritake Dental Inc. (Head Office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President: Satoshi Yamaguchi) has decided to expand the production capacity for ceramic dental materials at its Miyoshi Plant (Miyoshi City, Aichi Prefecture) to accelerate the expansion of its dental materials business.
Background of Capacity Enhancement
Kuraray Noritake Dental maintains two manufacturing bases, the Miyoshi Plant and Niigata Plant (Tainai City, Niigata Prefecture). The Miyoshi Plant produces ceramic dental materials, including zirconia products and porcelains.
The Miyoshi Plant is currently seeing the production of various products ramping up, and, to keep up with rising production going forward, Kuraray Noritake Dental has decided that facilities will be moved inside a building (total floor area: around 12,000m2) of the Miyoshi Plant and invest in capacity enhancement.
Overview of Capacity Enhancement
Location
300 Higashiyama, Miyoshi-cho, Miyoshi, Aichi
Capacity increase
60 tons/year (total post-expansion production capacity: 300 tons/year)
Note: The above figure for total production capacity reflects the increase after expansion. This could be expanded to a maximum of 490 tons/year through further future investment (250 tons/year more than current production capacity).
Schedule
Expanded facilities to start operations in mid-2026
Capital investment
Approx. ¥2.2 billion
Characteristics of the Company's Ceramic Dental Materials
As for ceramic dental materials, the Company develops, manufactures, and markets zirconia products and porcelains as its mainstay products. The competitive advantages of these products lie in their high strength, high aesthetics, and high quality. In particular, in recent years, demand has been rising for zirconia block, which enables shorter medical treatment, and net sales have been expanding, especially in North America.
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Overview of Kuraray Noritake Dental Inc.
Company name
Kuraray Noritake Dental Inc.
Head Office
Tokiwabashi Tower, 2-6-4, Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 100-0004, Japan
Representative
Satoshi Yamaguchi, President
Capital
300 million yen (66.7% by Kuraray Co., Ltd. and 33.3% by Noritake Company Limited)
Established
October 1, 2001 (The company was established as Kuraray Medical Inc. in 2001 and the name was changed to the current name in 2012.)
Line of business
Dental adhesives and filling materials, dental crown and bridge resin, dental ceramics, dental plaster, dental CAD/CAM devices and materials
Kuraray Co. Ltd. published this content on 18 December 2023 and is solely responsible for the information contained therein. Distributed by Public, unedited and unaltered, on 18 December 2023 03:02:45 UTC.
Kuraray Co., Ltd. is the world's leader in the manufacturing and marketing of chemical products, resins and synthetic fibers. Net sales break down by family of products as follows:
- chemical and resin (45.6%): functional resins and films, elastometers, thermoplastics, adhesives, fine chemistry products, etc. primarily for cosmetic products, televisions and mobile phones screens, foot packaging and paper manufacturing;
- fibers and textile products (29.8%): synthetic fibers and man-made leather, polyester, nonwoven textile products, resins, etc. sold under the brands Kuralon, Clarino Vectran and Kuraflex;
- functional materials (18.8%): methacrylic resin, medical chemicals, carbon materials, etc.;
- other (5.8%): primarily dental treatment and water purifying products.
At the end of 2019, the group had 52 production worldwide.
Net sales break down geographically as follows: Japan (27.1%), China (13.8%), Asia (12.3%), Europe (23.6%), the United States (18.5%) and other (4.7%).