President’s Message

Welcome to the UBE Corporation America website.

I am very excited to join this great team as the new president of UBE Corporation America (UCAI). UBE Group is growing in the U.S. market to provide valuable products and customer services to solve customer’s needs with excellent professional team, focusing on specialty chemicals. We will accelerate to strengthen our base in North America and aim for further growth and development.

UBE group has announced New Medium-Term Management Plan “UBE Vision 2030 Transformation — 2nd Stage”. Some of important issues related to US market are as below.

Purpose: “Breaking Through with the Chemistry of Hope.”
Slogan for Transformation: “Facing the challenges of an uncharted future.”
Vision for 2030
“A Specialty chemicals company that contributes to the global environment, human health, and an enriched future society”
Growth of specialty businesses
Accelerate growth of existing businesses: Expand production capacity for polyimide, separation membranes, ceramics, etc. Launch new businesses and create synergies: Achieve early contribution to earnings from U.S. DMC & EMC operations and urethane systems.
Acquire new businesses.
Through R&D and M&A (adjacent to existing businesses and with startups)
Advancement of sustainability management
Develop human resource, address to global environmental issues, and enhance governance and internal controls.
Measures for Growth (Five Materiality)
1. Expanding specialty businesses
2. Empowering and engaging a diverse workforce
3. Ensuring occupational safety and health, process safety, and disaster prevention
4. Addressing global environmental issues
5. Upholding integrity and fairness in corporate governance
Building a Global Management Structure
In addition to its existing three global production bases in Japan, Asia, and Europe, the Group will establish a new base in the Americas, creating a four-base global structure. Each base will strengthen its management systems — including capital, command and control, human resources, and back-office functions — to support smooth global business expansion and the acquisition of international businesses.

Currently, the following companies are under UCAI.

UBE America Inc. (hereinafter, UAI) is the UBE Group’s sales base in North America. It mainly sells chemical products, resins, special materials, etc. It also provides technical support and customer service.

UBE Engineered Composites, Inc. (hereinafter, UECI) is a compounder of engineering plastic resins and is located in Franklin, Indiana, USA. It mainly supplies nylon (6, 6.6, and 12) grades for the automotive industry, and also handles other grades for tolling customers. UBE C1 Chemicals America, Inc. (hereinafter, UCCA) is building a DMC/EMC plant: UCCA aims to build a dimethyl carbonate (DMC) and ethyl methyl carbonate (EMC) plant in Louisiana, USA. DMC is used as an electrolyte solvent for lithium-ion batteries and a developer for semiconductor manufacturing processes, and demand is increasing. In the future, as a C1 chemical chain, we plan to expand downstream to environmentally friendly products.

Urethane Systems USA LLC (hereinafter, URE USA) is new UBE group company producing Prepolymer for Polyurethane elastomer, Polyurethane Dispersion and Polyester Polyols located in Gastonia (North Carolina) and Perth Amboy (New Jersey) as plant, Naugatuck (Connecticut) as R&D center.

We have high ethical standards, comply with laws and social norms, and provide safe and reliable products. UCAI will lead to make above group companies to be one big family by seeking opportunity to add new businesses and members for further growth in the U.S. market. We love working harder with you to build a better future. Thank you so much for your support.

Koji Sagaoka
President & CEO
UBE CORPORATION AMERICA INC.