Sekisui Chemical is a Plastics manufacturer with head offices in Osaka and Tokyo. The company owns a plethora of subsidiaries engaged in a variety of businesses. Sekisui has over 27,000 employees in more than eighteen countries worldwide.[1]
History
Sekisui Chemical was founded on March 3, 1947. In October 2020, a 45-year old researcher was accused of engaging in corporate espionage against Sekisui on behalf of Guangdong-based Chaozhou Three-Circle.[2]
Sekisui has been recognized for its environmental efforts and in 2020 was ranked as the 12th most sustainable corporation in the world by the Canadian organization Corporate Knights Inc.[3]
References
- Sekisui Chemical on the Forbes Global 2000 List Forbes, retrieved 2019-06-24^
- Koji Murakoshi. Japan's Sekisui struck by espionage using social media Nikkei Asian Review, October 15, 2020^
- Sekisui Chemical named among the world's most sustainable companies for the third time in a row EPPM, 2020-03-09, retrieved 2021-03-11^