Company Profile

About Asahi Kasei Life Science

About Asahi Kasei Life Science
Thriving Pioneers of Medical Materials

Asahi Kasei Life Science has developed its business by applying the technological expertise of the Asahi Kasei Group in the fiber and chemical fields and leveraging the advantages of their filtration and separation technologies of hollow-fiber membranes.
While offering solutions in response to the changes in the market environment and customer needs, we maintain high reputation and continue to expand our business in various areas of biotherapeutics.

Asahi Kasei Life Science

Name of company Asahi Kasei Life Science Corporation
President Ken Shinomiya
Capitalization 3 billion yen; wholly-owned subsidiary of Asahi Kasei Corp.
Founding of business July 24, 1974
Employees 1,712
Main businesses
  • Development, manufacture and sale of virus removal filters (Planova) for biopharmaceutical manufacturing processes.
    *including the business of Asahi Kasei Life Science MT Corp.
Headquarters 1-1-2 Yurakucho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0006 Japan
Affiliated companies N.V. Asahi Kasei Bioprocess Europe S.A. (Belgium, wholly owned subsidiary)
Asahi Kasei Bioprocess America, Inc. (USA, wholly owned subsidiary)
Asahi Kasei Life Science MT Corp. (Japan, wholly owned subsidiary)
Bionique Testing Laboratories LLC
Bionova Scientific, LLC