Health Care
Asahi Kasei pharmaceutical Excipients
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Our pharmaceuticals business provides a wide range of pharmaceuticals and diagnostic reagents. As a specialized, R&D-centered operation, the development of new world-class drugs is advanced to offer innovative and unique therapeutic solutions in the fields of orthopedics, critical/intensive care, urology, the immune system, and the central nervous system.


Second plant – Microcrystalline Cellulose
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Asahi Kasei’s Specialty Solutions SBU will build a second plant for microcrystalline cellulose [1] (trade name Ceolus™) at its Mizushima Works in Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan.Asahi Kasei currently manufactures Ceolus™, a microcrystalline cellulose used primarily in pharmaceuticals as tablet binder [2], in Nobeoka, Miyazaki, Japan.