UBE Corporation

UBE Corporation
UBE株式会社
Company typePublic (K.K)
TYO: 4208
FSE: 4208
Nikkei 225 Component
IndustryChemicals
FoundedJune 1897; 127 years ago (1897-06)
FounderSukesaku Watanabe
HeadquartersSeavans North Building, 1-2-1, Shibaura, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8449, Japan
(Tokyo head office)
1978-96 Kogushi, Ube, Yamaguchi 755-8633, Japan
(Ube head office)
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Michio Takeshita
(president and CEO)
Products
RevenueIncrease$ 6.3 billion USD (FY 2013) (¥ 650.5 billion JPY) (FY 2013)
Increase$ 122 million USD (FY 2013) (¥ 12.6 billion JPY) (FY 2013)
Number of employees
9,849 (consolidated as of March 31, 2022)
WebsiteOfficial website
Footnotes / references
[1][2]

UBE Corporation (UBE株式会社, Yū-bī-ī Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese chemical company manufacturing chemicals, plastics, battery materials, pharmaceuticals, cement, construction materials, and machinery.[2]

The former company name is Ube Industries, Ltd. (宇部興産株式会社, Ube Kōsan Kabushiki-gaisha)

The company was founded in 1897 when Sukesaku Watanabe —an industrialist, a member of the House of Representatives of Japan and a deputy mayor of Ube— established Okinoyama Coal Mine, the predecessor of the present Ube industries.

Since then, the company has established six core business units: Chemicals & plastics, specialty chemicals & products, cement, pharmaceuticals, machinery and metal products, energy and environment.

The company is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and Fukuoka Stock Exchange, and is a constituent of the Nikkei 225 stock index.[3]

Ube Industries is a member of the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFJ) keiretsu.

  1. ^ "Company Outline". Ube Industries. Retrieved September 19, 2014.
  2. ^ a b "Company Profile". Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved September 19, 2014.
  3. ^ "Components:Nikkei Stock Average". Nikkei Inc. Retrieved September 18, 2014.