Advanced materials and manufacturing are in the spotlight and for the right reasons. Lighter, stronger and more durable structures made of newer metals and alloys are transforming just about everything, from goggles to army vehicles to space research. The advanced material innovation is growing manifold owing to the greater demand for greener products and technologies.

Reports suggest that advanced materials market will grow up to $2.1 trillion by 2025, growing at a CAGR of 4.5 percent during 2020-2025. The credit for this growth can be attributed to the increasing demand to replace plastics and metals with ceramics, nanomaterials, polymers, and composites in high-performance applications across heavy industries and global regions. The other reason for this transition is the digital innovation carried out in different industries, which is resulting in the demand for solutions that align with digital disruption. With improved flexibility in terms of their mechanical, electrical, thermal and/or chemical properties, the advanced materials are playing game changing role across the industries .

Established in 1935, Tosoh Corporation has built balanced product lines of commodity chemicals for industry and of specialty products and materials for high technology and niche markets. Tosoh’s target audience include companies from a range of industries that include: chemical and petrochemical, construction, automotive, consumer electronics, information technology, bioscience, and environmental markets. Over the years, the company has reshaped its market strategy consistently to facilitate modernistic life for one and all. While Tosoh’s petrochemical operations supply ethylene, polyethylene, and functional polymers, its advanced materials business serves the global semiconductor, display, and solar industries. Tosoh has also built next generation bioscience systems used to monitor life-threatening diseases. All this while keeping an eye for green innovation that paves the way for a sustainable future.

The company’s high performance inorganic materials form the core of its advanced materials division. The division is laser-focused on a range of materials that contribute to energy conservation, environmental protection, and better health and more bountiful lifestyles. It brings to bear compound such as electrolytic manganese dioxide (EMD) to produce cathodes for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) and dry cell batteries. It aids in processing gas emissions from automobiles or semiconductor plants by using synthetic zeolite as a catalyst in petrochemical reactions and a catalyst or adsorbent. On the other hand, Zirconia powder is a fine ceramic that finds application in structural materials, dental tools and materials, and other products that require superior durability. In addition, Tosoh’s quartz and fabricated quartzware are used as equipment in the manufacture of semiconductors, liquid crystal panels, and solar cells and as testing equipment in the medical field. The company’s sputtering targets also play an important role as materials in the manufacture of semiconductors, liquid crystal panels, and solar cells.

In the advanced materials space, the company has developed expertise in battery materials, fabricated quartzware, silica glass, thin film deposition materials, zeolites for catalysts, zeolites for molecular sieves, zirconia injection mold components, zirconia injection mold compounds, zirconia grinding and dispersion media, zirconia fine beads, and zirconia powders.

Tosoh understands the role of chemical companies in solving societal issues and realizing a sustainable society

Tosoh has one of the largest battery-grade Electrolytic Manganese Dioxide (EMD) capacities in the world, with manufacturing facilities in both Japan and Greece. This enables the firm to readily meet the most demanding quantity requirements of its clients.

Backed by its group of companies spread across the globe, Tosoh has brought the art of quartz glassblowing to a new industrial and technological level. The company’s subsidiary Tosoh Quartz is leading the innovation in this space with superior technology, stringent quality control and engineering support, which all ultimately contribute towards improving our customers’ bottom line. The areas of implementation include semiconductor and optical industries.

Next in line is Tosoh N and NP materials that are manufactured by fusing a high-purity silica powder using Tosoh’s proprietary oxy-hydrogen flame fusion process. Tosoh N has become the reference material in diverse applications that include: semiconductor manufacturing, metrology, optics, chemical processing, and UV and high-temperature windows, among others. The material achieves such capabilities because of its high purity, low aluminum content, and extremely low level of bubbles and inclusions.

Tosoh’s thin film deposition materials are produced at the company’s global facilities in the US, Japan, Korea and China. These materials prove to be of high value in: Solar and photovoltaics, flat panel displays, magnetic recording media (rigid disks, rewritable-optical disks), recording heads, thermal print heads, and thin film resistors.

The company’s zeolites for catalysts are basically high silica zeolites with higher SiO2/Al2O3 mol ratios than zeolite molecular sieves. These HSZ-series have a proven record of improving alkylation and isomerization.

Zeolum, with its synthetic zeolite possessing strong selective adsorption properties, is suitable for drying, purifying and separating a wider variety of feeds than any other adsorbent. It proves valuable in the areas of gas production, separation of nitrogen and oxygen from air, H2 purification in PSA processes, and purification in terms of removal of carbon dioxide and moisture from air, which is widely used in petrochemical production and refining as well as drying of naphtha cracked gas, and drying of organic solutions and refrigerants, among others.

Tosoh actively pursues R&D in a wide variety of domains: life sciences, electronic materials, and environment and energy. In the life sciences space, it develops next generation products and technologies for achieving low-carbon society. The focus is also on developing new materials to powder metallurgy technologies and organometallic complexes. When it comes to electronic materials, Tosoh takes full advantage of organic compounds and polymer design technologies.

Tosoh understands the role of chemical companies in solving societal issues and realizing a sustainable society. To that end, it remains committed to improving the quality of life through environmental preservation, ensuring the safety and health of employees and society, and achieving economic progress. The company aims to continue its unbridled support toward the sustainable growth of society.