Nagase was founded in Japan in 1832 and presently has annual revenue of around US$ 6 billion. Nagase offers a wide range of chemicals, excipients, biopharmaceutical materials, APIs as well as other related products and services. In order to support our customers worldwide, Nagase has an international network of offices across 27 countries and regions.
Nagase Specialty Materials is the US subsidiary of Nagase, based in Greater Chicago, a trusted provider of products and services to our customers from the chemical, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries in North America.
Hayashibara is a fully owned subsidiary of Nagase, based in Okayama, Japan, engaged in the manufacturing of high purity carbohydrates such as Trehalose, Maltose and Pullulan for the pharma, biopharma, diagnostics, and cosmetics industries. Hayashibara is a bio-technology oriented company, the first in the world to successfully produce Trehalose commercially, currently a leader in the production of injectable-grade Trehalose.