Nippon Sanso Holdings Corporation

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Nippon Sanso Holdings Corporation

NSHD headquarters in Tokyo
Native name	日本酸素ホールディングス株式会社
Romanized name	Nippon Sanso Holdings Kabushiki-gaisha
Company type	Public KK
Traded as	TYO: 4091
Industry	Chemicals Health care Engineering
Founded	1918; 106 years ago (1918)
Headquarters	Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 142-8558 , Japan
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Toshihiko Hamada (President and CEO)
Products	Industrial gases Semiconductor manufacturing materials Gas handling systems & equipment LP gases Vacuum bottles
Services	Plant engineering Cryogenic services
Revenue	JPY 850.2 billion (FY 2019) (US$ 7.8 billion) (FY 2019) [1]
Net income	JPY 53.3 billion (FY 2019) (US$ 489 million) (FY 2018)
Total assets	JPY 1.75 Trillion (FY 2019) (US$ 16 Billion) (FY 2019)
Number of employees	20,000 (consolidated, as of 31 March 2019) [2]
Parent	Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings (50.5%)[3]
Subsidiaries	Thermos Matheson Tri-Gas Leeden
Website	Official website
Footnotes / references [4][5]

Nippon Sanso Holdings Corporation (日本酸素ホールディングス株式会社, Nippon Sanso Holdings Kabushiki-gaisha), commonly known as NSHD, is a Japanese multinational industrial gas manufacturer incorporated in 1910 as Nippon Sanso Corporation. The company was founded in 1918.

The company is among the top five industrial gas suppliers in the world with major operations in Japan, USA, Europe and Asia/Oceania.^[6] The company currently operates in more than 30 countries worldwide via its own name and subsidiaries and affiliate companies. The company holds the brand Thermos under its holdings.

NSHD is headquartered in 1-3-26 Koyama, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo with more than 300 subsidiaries and affiliates in other countries. On 13 May 2014, Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings announced that an agreement had been reached whereby Taiyo Nippon Sanso would become an affiliate of Mitsubishi Chemical, which is a part of the core Mitsubishi group.^[7] Subsequently, Mitsubishi Chemical increased its stake in the company to 50.5%.^[6]