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SDK Announces 2021 Consolidated Financial Results

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Monday, February 14, 2022

TOKYO, Feb 14, 2022 - (JCN Newswire) - Showa Denko (SDK; TSE:4004) today announced its 2021 consolidated financial results.

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  • TOKYO, Feb 14, 2022 - (JCN Newswire) - Showa Denko (SDK; TSE:4004) today announced its 2021 consolidated financial results.
  • (SDK; TSE:4004, ADR:SHWDY) is a major manufacturer of chemical products serving from heavy industry to computers and electronics.
  • The Petrochemicals Sector provides cracker products such as ethylene and propylene, the Chemicals Sector provides industrial, high-performance and high-purity gases and chemicals for semicon and other industries, the Inorganics Sector provides ceramic products, such as alumina, abrasives, refractory/graphite electrodes and fine carbon products.
  • The Aluminum Sector provides aluminum materials and high-value-added fabricated aluminum, the Electronics Sector provides HD media, compound semiconductors such as ultra high bright LEDs, and rare earth magnetic alloys, and the Advanced Battery Materials Department (ABM) provides lithium-ion battery components.

Showa Denko Drastically Accelerates Exploration of Optimal Formulation of Semiconductor Materials with Quantum Computing Technology

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Thursday, February 10, 2022

(SDK; TSE:4004) has demonstrated the ability of quantum computing technology to accelerate the exploration of the optimal formulation of semiconductor materials, reducing the exploration time from dozens of years of conventional methods to dozens of seconds.

Key Points: 
  • (SDK; TSE:4004) has demonstrated the ability of quantum computing technology to accelerate the exploration of the optimal formulation of semiconductor materials, reducing the exploration time from dozens of years of conventional methods to dozens of seconds.
  • Semiconductor materials contain numerous ingredients such as resins, fillers, and additives in various mixing ratios, and high-performance materials are obtained by optimizing the formulation.
  • Moreover, the optimal formulation designed with the Ising model is expected to obtain semiconductor materials with 30% higher performance than the formulation designed with conventional AI methods.
  • ( https://www.fujitsu.com/global/services/business-services/digital-annealer/ )
    *2: Quantum-inspired computing technology: High-performance computing technology inspired by quantum technology, though not directly using quantum effects.

Showa Denko Revises Forecast of Consolidated Performance

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Wednesday, February 9, 2022

TOKYO, Feb 9, 2022 - (JCN Newswire) - Showa Denko (SDK; TSE:4004) announces that it revises its forecast of consolidated business results for the full year ending on December 31, 2021, which was announced on August 3, 2021.

Key Points: 
  • TOKYO, Feb 9, 2022 - (JCN Newswire) - Showa Denko (SDK; TSE:4004) announces that it revises its forecast of consolidated business results for the full year ending on December 31, 2021, which was announced on August 3, 2021.
  • Revision of forecast of consolidated business results for January 1 - December 31, 2021
    (1) Revised forecast of consolidated business results for January 1 - December 31, 2021
    Net sales hovers around the level of the previous forecast.
  • As a result, net income attributable to owners of the parent is expected to increase by about 13 billion yen from that in the previous forecast.
  • Showa Denko K.K.

New Year Message from Hidehito Takahashi, Showa Denko President and CEO

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Tuesday, January 4, 2022

TOKYO, Jan 4, 2022 - (JCN Newswire) - Hidehito Takahashi, President and CEO of Showa Denko ("SDK"; TSE:4004) announced the following New Year message.

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  • TOKYO, Jan 4, 2022 - (JCN Newswire) - Hidehito Takahashi, President and CEO of Showa Denko ("SDK"; TSE:4004) announced the following New Year message.
  • Since 2019, in which the Company announced that it would acquire former Hitachi Chemical Company, Ltd. (current Showa Denko Materials Co., Ltd.), the scheme for integration of Showa Denko (SDK) and Showa Denko Materials (SDMC) has been proceeding smoothly due to the effort of you all in the Showa Denko Group.
  • Hereafter, we will repeatedly disseminate these Values to make it shared by all the members of the Showa Denko Group with strong empathy.
  • Together with the colleagues sharing Values, let us make the Showa Denko Group a top-class chemical company that can win the global competition.

SDK Decides to Choose and Apply to be Listed into TSE Prime Market

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Monday, December 27, 2021

On July 9, 2021, SDK received the result of the first-stage judgement on the Company's eligibility for the Prime Market from TSE, and we confirmed that the Company has cleared criteria for maintaining its listing on the Prime Market, which is to be created by TSE as a result of restructuring of its current stock market into three new market segments.

Key Points: 
  • On July 9, 2021, SDK received the result of the first-stage judgement on the Company's eligibility for the Prime Market from TSE, and we confirmed that the Company has cleared criteria for maintaining its listing on the Prime Market, which is to be created by TSE as a result of restructuring of its current stock market into three new market segments.
  • Following this confirmation, the Board of Directors meeting resolved today to choose the Prime Market for listing, and submit application for admission into the Prime Market.
  • SDK will follow the schedule set by TSE, and go through prescribed procedures for the application for admission into the Prime Market.
  • (SDK; TSE: 4004, ADR: SHWDY) is a major manufacturer of chemical products serving from heavy industry to computers and electronics.

Oxygen Scavenger Markets: Inorganic Oxygen Scavengers, Organic Oxygen Scavengers - Global Forecast to 2026 - ResearchAndMarkets.com

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Monday, December 20, 2021

The "Global Oxygen Scavenger Market by Type (Inorganic oxygen scavengers, Organic oxygen scavengers), by End-use Industry (Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical, Power, Oil & Gas, Chemical, Pulp & paper), and Region - Forecast to 2026" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

Key Points: 
  • The "Global Oxygen Scavenger Market by Type (Inorganic oxygen scavengers, Organic oxygen scavengers), by End-use Industry (Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical, Power, Oil & Gas, Chemical, Pulp & paper), and Region - Forecast to 2026" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
  • The global oxygen scavenger market size is projected to reach USD 2.9 billion by 2026 from USD 2.2 billion in 2021, at a CAGR of 5.5% during the forecast period.
  • In addition, increasing awareness around reducing food wastage due to unhygienic and improper packaging are also driving the oxygen scavenger market.
  • The inorganic oxygen scavengers segment is the largest, which is projected to continue till 2026.

Showa Denko Develops HD Media for MAS-MAMR Technology

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Friday, December 10, 2021

At present, Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording (MAMR) is a leading edge data-recording technology, which has already been put into practical use.

Key Points: 
  • At present, Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording (MAMR) is a leading edge data-recording technology, which has already been put into practical use.
  • The newly developed MAS-MAMR technology realizes data-recording track on the surface of HD media drastically narrower than that of MAMR-technology-based HD media through utilization of the strong magnetic oscillation effect of Microwave Assisted Switching (MAS effect)*1, thereby increasing data-storage capacity of HDDs.
  • Aiming to put this new data-recording technology into practical use, SDK has been developing HD media supporting MAS-MAMR in collaboration with Toshiba and TDK Corporation (TDK) which is a manufacturer of read/write heads for HDDs.
  • In this year, SDK has already started supplying Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation with HD media supporting MAMR.

Showa Denko Develops Neural Network Models to Predict Mechanical Properties of Aluminum Alloys Accurately

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Thursday, December 2, 2021

Developing high-performance aluminum alloys usually takes time because designing aluminum alloys requires developers' knowledge-rich experience and repetition of analysis and evaluation.

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  • Developing high-performance aluminum alloys usually takes time because designing aluminum alloys requires developers' knowledge-rich experience and repetition of analysis and evaluation.
  • In this development, we focused on 2000-series aluminum alloys, utilized design data of 410 records of aluminum alloys listed in public databases, including the Japan Aluminum Association, and developed neural network models that accurately predict the strength of aluminum alloys at various temperatures ranging from room temperature to high temperature.
  • Neural network model: Neural network model is a machine learning algorithm that imitates the human brain's neural network.
  • In this Development, we constructed neural network models that reproduce correlation between design conditions and mechanical properties of aluminum alloys with Bayesian inference.

SDK to Raise Prices of High-Purity Gases for Electronics

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Thursday, November 18, 2021

TOKYO, Nov 18, 2021 - (JCN Newswire) - Showa Denko (SDK; TSE: 4004) decided to raise prices of its high-purity gases for electronics which are used for production of semiconductor integrated circuits and other electronic materials.

Key Points: 
  • TOKYO, Nov 18, 2021 - (JCN Newswire) - Showa Denko (SDK; TSE: 4004) decided to raise prices of its high-purity gases for electronics which are used for production of semiconductor integrated circuits and other electronic materials.
  • Specifically, SDK will raise prices of high-purity gases for electronics by 20% or more as from delivery on January 1, 2022.
  • High-purity gases for electronics are used in the production of semiconductor integrated circuits, LCD panels, and GaN LEDs, as etching gases to produce electronic circuits by creating fine ditches and holes in thin films on silicon substrates, and as cleaning gases to remove unwanted chemical substances that adhere to chamber walls after deposition of thin films on silicon substrates.
  • (SDK; TSE: 4004, ADR: SHWDY) is a major manufacturer of chemical products serving from heavy industry to computers and electronics.

Showa Denko Announces 2021 Third Quarter Financial Results

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Wednesday, November 10, 2021

TOKYO, Nov 10, 2021 - (JCN Newswire) - Showa Denko K.K.

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  • TOKYO, Nov 10, 2021 - (JCN Newswire) - Showa Denko K.K.
  • (SDK; TSE:4004) today announced its 2021 third quarter financial results.
  • - 2021 Third Quarter Financial Results: Presentation Material
    Showa Denko K.K.
  • (SDK; TSE:4004, ADR:SHWDY) is a major manufacturer of chemical products serving from heavy industry to computers and electronics.