25 October 2013
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About Kuraray
Kuraray's Long-Term Corporate Vision of becoming a
"Specialty chemical company with a global presence".
Kuraray is accelerating the global expansion in its core
businesses and simultaneously developing next generation businesses
including aqua and environment, energy, optics and electronics.
To this end, the company established a business location in
California's Silicon Valley in 2011 with the aim of bolstering
its ability to discover promising new technologies in future growth fields.
Kuraray has been actively exchanging technologies with
ventures and other companies that
posses technology having synergy with Kuraray.
About Vitriflex
Vitriflex, Inc.,
Headquartered in San Jose, California, USA.,
has developed a proprietary technology for
transparent ultra-barrier films that
have been the world's highest level of barrier performance,
with a water transmission rate (WVTR) of just 10-6 g/m2 per day.
The use of barrier film
Most electronic devices currently use glass to protect against
moisture and oxygen. The use of barrier films, however, makes
it possible to produce lightweight, flexible devices, an advance that
will be key to the creation of next-generation electronic products.
As continued development of this technolgy aligns with
Kuraray's business policy of placing greater importance on the
field of "optics and electronics". The company was pleased to
make its investment in Vitriflex. The funds will be used to
accelerate Vitriflex's production scale-up.
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