Over the many decades since its establishment, the Nihon Kagaku Sangyo Group has steadily continued to grow based on the two pillars of our business: the Chemicals business focusing on inorganic and organic metal chemicals and the Building Materials business focusing on processed metal products. To realize our vision for 2030, we are continuing to take on new challenges—what might be called a “second founding”—amid an increasingly complex business environment.
In fiscal 2025, based on this plan, we steadily advanced the “strengthening of existing businesses” and the “creation of new businesses and products,” achieving tangible results such as the completion of a pilot plant for the automotive secondary battery recycling business. Amid a rapidly changing global business environment characterized by geopolitical risks, fluctuations in metal prices, and shifts in supply chains, the entire company worked together as one to achieve results that exceeded the initial budget: net sales of 28 billion yen (up 2.5 billion yen, or 10%, year-on-year) and operating profit of 3.4 billion yen (up 540 million yen, or 19.0%, year-on-year).
Moving forward, based on our newly launched “Mid-Term Management Plan (2026–2028),” we will strengthen the creation of new businesses centered on recycling technology and our expansion into overseas markets, while continuing to make proactive investments toward sustainable growth.
KADOYA Hiroki, President