Nitto Denko: Development Under Earnings Pressure

Masatoshi Fujiwara () and Yaichi Aoshima ()
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Masatoshi Fujiwara: Hitotsubashi University
Yaichi Aoshima: Hitotsubashi University

Chapter Chapter 9 in Mechanisms for Long-Term Innovation, 2022, pp 155-181 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In this chapter, we describe the history of development and commercialization of RO membranes at Nitto Denko. The president of the company in the 1970s envisioned a corporate growth strategy that defines the membrane business as one of its main pillars. The company thus developed not only RO membranes, but also various other membranes for a wide variety of applications. We illustrate that, in the 1980s, the company expanded its business to overseas markets by acquiring Hydranautics. We also depict that Nitto Denko began full-scale business development in the seawater desalination market after overcoming a patent dispute with Dow Chemical.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-4896-1_9

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