Advanced Technology Research Laboratories

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.

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.