Business Overview
Polymers & Resins
Design, synthesis, and polymerization technologies for high-performance polymers that support everyday life.
Business Outline
High molecular weight polymers with advanced functionality and safety.
Since its founding, Fujikura Kasei has developed its business around polymer and resin design technology.
The current Polymers & Resins Division has further developed this fundamental technology to commercialize products such as pressure-sensitive adhesives, functional particles, materials for copiers and printers, firing binders, urethane resins, and block polymers. Together with our customers, we strive on a daily basis to solve a diverse range of issues in niche fields.
Synthesizing polymers since our founding
Since 1938
Product information video (in Japanese)
The Polymers & Resins Division possesses synthesis technologies for various types of high molecular weight polymers, including acrylic resins, styrene resins, and urethane resins.
We offer products in powder, solvent-borne, water-borne, and solvent-free forms.
They are used in a wide range of fields, and we can offer proposals tailored to meet customers’ needs.
Fields of Business
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Smartphones
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Photocopiers & printers
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Tape
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Automobiles
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Home appliances
Main Products
Product information
For detailed information about our various products (product names, materials, characteristics, etc.), please see the product information page.
Message From the Division
Satoshi Watanabe
Our technology development
At the Polymers & Resins Division, we have technologies for synthesizing acrylic resins, styrene resins, and urethane resins, which are widely use in a diverse variety of fields, including automotive uses, electronic devices, electronic components, semiconductors, coatings, inks, molding materials, and construction materials.
In recent years, we have focused on developing new technologies such as block polymers and environmentally friendly materials, such as solvent-free resin solutions, water-borne urethane resins, and acrylic resins.
Block polymers
Our block polymers are resins that incorporate a mixture of hard and soft segments, enabling them to express unprecedented physical properties through functional separation of the components.
With our proprietary compounding technology, we can control a wide range of properties, including stretchability, tensile strength, heat resistance, adhesion, shear retention, resilience, and dispersibility.
These can contribute to solving challenges through means such as controlling dispersibility, imparting adhesion, and allowing properties to coexist where a tradeoff would be required.
Consideration for the environment
Our urethane resins, from an environmental friendliness standpoint, are NMP-free and tin catalyst-free thanks to our proprietary technology.
From a solvent reduction standpoint, we design products with a focus on water-borne dispersion.
In terms of physical properties, we can propose resins with unique properties tailored to your use cases, such as resins with flexibility and high coating surface hardness, or with controlled coating elongation and tensile strength under low-temperature conditions.
We can also provide water-borne and solvent-free acrylics.
FAQs
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What polymerization methods can you use?
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We have mass production technologies for solution polymerization, emulsion polymerization, suspension polymerization, bulk polymerization, precision polymerization, and condensation polymerization.
We can propose resins tailored to your specific needs.
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What environmental initiatives are you implementing?
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For solvent-borne products, we are deploying products that use biomass-derived raw materials.
Additionally, to reduce our overall use of organic solvents, we are accelerating our development of water-borne and solvent-free products.
With urethane resins, we manufacture our products without using environmentally harmful NMP or tin catalysts.
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In what forms can you supply your products?
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You can choose the delivery form that best suits your needs, including solvent-borne, water-borne, powder, or solvent-free (syrup) options.
Depending on the quantity, we can provide packaging options such as steel cans, drums, containers, paper bags, or flexible containers.
