Advanced Technology Research Laboratories is a corporate research center in Idemitsu Kosan Co.,Ltd. We have two missions. One is the solution of the middle- or long- term technological problems in each business unit, and the other is the technological development due to create new business.
Advanced Technology Research Laboratories
Strategy
We, Advanced Technology Research Laboratories, will promote R&D by innovation and fusion of technologies, while corresponding quickly to changing market-needs of global future growth.
In Functional Materials Businesses such as functional chemicals, electronic materials, lithium ion battery materials and agri-biotechnological materials, we will develop the technologies to create new activities and to produce new products to enhance our business divisions in the long-term.
Also, we will contribute to a low-carbon society by developing new technologies
related to bio-chemical, bio-fuel and carbon recycle.
In addition, we have an Analytical Technology Center as a corporate analysis unit. It's mission is the analytical service and the developing analytical technology for each business unit.
