Company Profile
Asahi Kasei Chemicals is the core operation company of Asahi Kasei Group, a Japanese leading chemical company group established in 1931, and the foremost manufacturer of Microcrystalline Cellulose (MCC) in Asia Pacific. Asahi's high-performance excipients provide excellent opportunities for pharmaceuticals industry, such as: 1) CEOLUS KG-802, which is the world's most compactible MCC, facilitates lower compression force suitable for the tableting of pressure-sensitive drugs and film-coated granules; and, 2) CELPHERE, MCC spherical starting core, is an optimum core for a wide range of aqueous drug layering and coating systems, and ensures easy manufacturing of coated granules. Fine chemicals and active pharmaceutical ingredients are on the market from Asahi Kasei Pharma.
