Air Products recently announced that Air Products Japan has completed the business integration with Sanwa Chemical Industry, acquired in April 2003.
Sanwa Chemical is a leading Asian producer of specialty polyamide resins and epoxy curing agents with operations in Japan and Singapore.
Together with Air Products' own market-leading portfolio of complementary products, the combined offerings of the two companies represent the broadest range of solutions to customer challenges in high performance coatings for steel and concrete, printing ink resins, and hot-melt adhesives.
Air Products also has further invested in a new Asian Chemicals Regional Technology Center in Kanagawa Science Park focusing on applications and new product development, technical service and process support.