Daicel

{{Short description|Japanese chemical company}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2015}}

{{Infobox company

| name = Daicel Corporation
株式会社ダイセル

| logo = Daicel company logo.svg

| native_name =

| native_name_lang = ja

| type = Public KK

| traded_as = {{TYO|4202}}

| ISIN =

| industry = Chemical

| founded = ({{Start date and age|1919|09|08}})

| hq_location_city = Kita-ku, Osaka 530-0011 (Osaka head office)
Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8230 (Tokyo head office)

| hq_location_country = Japan

| area_served = Worldwide

| key_people = Misao Fudaba
(President and CEO)

| products = {{unbulleted list|Cellulosic derivatives|Organic chemicals|Plastics|Industrial pyrotechnic devices|Water treatment systems}}

| revenue = {{increase}} JPY 412.83 billion (FY 2019)

(US$ 3.95 billion) (FY 2019)

| net_income = {{increase}} JPY 4.98 billion (FY 2019)

(US$ 47.63 million) (FY 2019)

| num_employees = 11,606 (2019)

| footnotes = {{cite web |url=http://www.daicel.com/en/profile/company.html |title=Corporate Data |publisher=Daicel Corporation |accessdate=December 23, 2015}}{{cite web |url=http://quotes.wsj.com/JP/4202/company-people |title=Company Profile |work=The Wall Street Journal |publisher=Dow Jones & Company |accessdate=December 23, 2015}}

| website = {{Official website|http://www.daicel.com/en/}}

}}

{{nihongo|Daicel Corporation|株式会社ダイセル|Kabushiki gaisha Daiseru}} is a chemical company based in Japan. It operates business in celluloid technologies, organic chemicals, high-performance chemicals, polymers and pyrotechnic devices. The company's products include cellulose acetate, tow for cigarette filters, high-performance chemicals, engineering plastics like liquid crystal polymers (LPCs), resin compounds, and automotive airbag inflators.{{cite web |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/4202:JP |title=Company Profile |publisher=Bloomberg L.P. |accessdate=December 23, 2015}}

The company formed under the name of Dainippon Celluloid Company from a 1919 merger of eight regional celluloid manufacturers and changed its name to the present one in 1966.{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/autos-takata-results-preview-idUSL1N0SV0HX20141105 |first=Mari |last=Saito|title=Recalls, uncertainty to push air bag maker Takata to wider loss |publisher=Thomson Reuters |date=November 5, 2014 |accessdate=December 23, 2015}} Its first subsidiary, Fuji Photo Film, was set up in 1934 to produce nitrocellulose film.{{cite book |author=Fred Aftalion |title=A History of the International Chemical Industry |date=January 1, 1991 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |isbn=0-8122-8207-8 |pages=206, 317}} Eventually this company became Fujifilm.

As of early 2020, Daicel owned a majority stake in Polyplastics. By the end of 2020, Daicel purchased the remaining minority stake from Celanese and attained 100% ownership of Polyplastics.{{cite web | last=Moore | first=Stephen | title=Daicel Acquires Celanese Share in Polyplastics | website=PlasticsToday | date=2020-07-22 | url=https://www.plasticstoday.com/materials/daicel-acquires-celanese-share-in-polyplastics | access-date=2024-04-10}}{{cite web | last=Research | first=Zacks Equity | title=Celanese Wraps Divestment of Stake in Polyplastics to Daicel | website=Yahoo Sports | date=2020-10-13 | url=https://sports.yahoo.com/celanese-wraps-divestment-stake-polyplastics-142602267.html | access-date=2024-04-10}}{{cite web | last=Hartmann | first=Jens | title=CELANESE: Sale of Polyplastics share to Daicel completed / Investments in Asian compounding | website=Plasteurope.com | url=https://www.plasteurope.com/news/detail.asp?id=246112 | access-date=2024-04-10}}