Chemicals focuses on electrics as key growth segment

It is often said that Japan’s chuken kigyo – its formidable cohort of small and medium-sized enterprises which account for more than 90% of the country’s businesses – make up the backbone of the Japanese economy. If that is true, then to extend the metaphor, the Japanese chemical industry provides a constant flow of blood that keeps the economic heart beating.

The chemical industry, perhaps to the surprise of some, is