Tetsuyoshi Hashimoto (left), Youichi Hashimoto (center) Ryuichi Nakajima (right) at the Hokko booth at Informex Since its establishment in 1950, Hokko Chemical Industry Co. Ltd. realized steady growth in the main business categories, including production and sales of agrochemical and the other fine chemical products under efficient and progressive management. In the fine chemicals business field, Hokko offers a unique range of specialty chemicals, including Organophosphines, Organoborons, Specialty styrenes, Organometallic compounds, raw materials and intermediates for pharmaceutical use and the other organic / inorganic chemicals, manufactured at ISO-9001 & ISO-14001 certified plants located in Okayama, Japan and also Zhangjiagang, China. Hokko has enjoyed a high reputation as a creditable supplier on both product quality and stable supply in various application fields, especially for electronics materials and pharmaceuticals.Specialty phosphines are one of the most important products in its ligands / catalysts businesses. Hokko formed new business partnership and alliance with several companies on marketing and development of specialty phosphines in overseas market and through those partnerships it has been well-established as a leading producer of these products in the world. Hokko's core technologies are Grignard, Wittig and Suzuki reactions backed by accumulated specific know-how from its nearly 60 years experience. Hokko is providing various services based upon these technologies, especially Custom and Contract manufacturing at flexible multi-purpose plants. Hokko's synthesis capability is large like 10 metric ton per batch in case of Grignard reaction and with its scale merit it can supply the customers with high-quality products at competitive prices. Hokko also has an advantage on supply of very important key materials, "phosphine ligands". As is well known, Phosphine ligands are mandatory for some chemical synthesis but sometimes very precious. Hokko can use them at direct cost.