NIKKO CHEMICALS is the core company of the six-company NIKKOL GROUP.
Since its founding in 1946, our expertise in colloid chemical and skin science has been highly regarded in the fields of personal care, pharmaceuticals, and food.
As a trading and R&D company, we sell a wide range of cosmetic, pharmaceutical and chemical ingredients, primarily high-quality surfactants, while using our extensive network and information gathering capabilities to support our customers' R&D and overseas market development.
We take pride in being a comprehensive supplier of specialty chemicals, we are committed to meeting the diverse needs of our customers.

In April 2022, NIKKO CHEMICALS merged with Cosmos Technical Center, launching a new NIKKO CHEMICALS in which these two companies are now one.
Through the merger of sales and R&D, we will endeavor to utilize the integrative capabilities that can only be achieved through a unified team, as we work even harder to provide products and services that answer our customers and partners’ needs.

We have business units from April 2022, and they are:
Personal Care Business Unit in Headquarters Regional Business Unit:
We ascertain the optimum selection of our wide range of cosmetic ingredients (oils, surfactants, active ingredients, etc.), and present these together with our company’s original
technologies and formulas.
With our “One Stop Service”, we play an active role in our customers’ product development, conducting R&D that helps our customers produce unique and specialized products.

Personal Care Business Unit in Headquarters International Business Unit:
Providing high-added value products beginning with functional and sustainable raw materials, we also keep up with global trends. Combining our strength in sales and R&D while meticulously responding to customers’ requirements for accreditations and materials that differ from country to country, we are aiming to be “Asia's No.1 Business Partner”.

Pharmaceuticals Business Unit:
We support the supply and production of various types of raw materials that are used in drugs for external use as well as pharmaceutical additives.
Proactively complying with standards required by both domestic and international markets, we will continue to contribute to problem-solving in the field of pharmaceutical development.

Chemical Business Unit:
We provide highly specialized technologies while simultaneously meeting customers’ needs for small scale production in a broad diversity of fields including precision cleaning of semiconductors, pigments, and foods/ drinks. Our strength in surfactant technology allows us to also contribute in other areas, such as restoring cultural heritage properties and space research.

Also, we have now Innovative Business Planning Division to create new business:
With effective collaboration transcending organizational frameworks, this strategic department combines knowledge and technology to act as an innovation hub, derivatively creating new business from existing businesses.
Activating the pioneering spirit that can also be called NIKKO CHEMICALS’ DNA throughout the company, this division creates new value that could not be realized through individual resources alone.

At our R&D Center embarks on several research themes - including medium-to-long-term projects. Designed with the aim of creating innovation, this facility also functions as a “laboratory open to society” through collaborations with customers, the industry, and academic institutions. Addition to R&D Center, at the Materials Research Laboratory, the facility that focuses on developing new materials that are not limited to existing fields. It focuses not only on personal care, but also on food, electronic materials and agriculture, pursuing developments that cross industrial boundaries.

NIKKO CHEMICALS Web Site: https://www.nikkol.co.jp/en/index.html