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Daicel: The Airbag Inflators Saving Lives Worldwide
A world leader in automotive airbag inflators and cellulose acetate — chemistry that both protects passengers and films displays
Companies
A world leader in automotive airbag inflators and cellulose acetate — chemistry that both protects passengers and films displays
A Japanese specialist in the fine-pitch connectors inside phones and devices — and one of the highest-margin component makers anywhere
From a 1915 Aichi workshop to a global power-tool brand — the instantly recognisable teal tools on construction sites worldwide
The world leader in single-wafer cleaning equipment — an unavoidable step repeated dozens of times in making every semiconductor
A 110-year-old maker of the world's industrial pumps that is also a key supplier of CMP and vacuum equipment to semiconductor fabs
A top global maker of the multilayer ceramic capacitors that fill every smartphone and car by the hundreds and thousands
From the windows of skyscrapers to display substrates and semiconductor photomask glass — inside the world's biggest glass company
The former Toshiba Memory invented NAND flash — and now, newly listed, finds its entire 2026 output sold out to the AI boom
One of the world's top automotive-microcontroller makers — when its chips ran short, car factories around the world stopped
From advanced ceramics to chip packages, capacitors, tools, and solar — the sprawling 2 trillion yen technology group founded by a management legend
The world leader in chip test equipment with about 58% share — a direct beneficiary of every AI and HBM chip shipped
A near-monopoly in EUV mask blanks and a top global eyeglass-lens maker — Hoya spans both ends of the optics world