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Fujifilm Holdings

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Fujifilm Holdings Corporation (Tokyo; TSE: 4901; ~¥3.6 trillion revenue) is an aggressively expanding EUV photoresist supplier, targeting approximately 10% of the global EUV resist market through its Electronic Materials division. Fujifilm's EUV resist production facility is at Yoshida-Minami, Shizuoka, Japan. Fujifilm's pivot from consumer photography (film and cameras) to semiconductor chemicals and medical imaging systems is one of the most dramatic industrial transformations in Japanese corporate history — the same company known for photographic film for 90 years is now developing photoresist for 13.5nm EUV lithography. Fujifilm's photochemistry expertise from film manufacturing transferred directly to photoresist development.

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  • Electronic Materials (Photoresists)

    15%
  • Healthcare & Medical Imaging

    40%
  • Pharmaceuticals & Bio-CDMO

    15%
  • Document Solutions & Printing

    20%
  • Cosmetics & Fine Chemicals

    10%

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  • Did you know2023

    Fujifilm Holdings is simultaneously one of the world's leading manufacturers of medical X-ray film and imaging systems, a major supplier of COVID-19 antiviral drugs (Avigan/favipiravir — approved in Japan and used in clinical trials globally), and an EUV photoresist manufacturer. The photochemistry expertise Fujifilm developed over 90 years manufacturing photographic film — controlling light-sensitive silver halide crystals, polymer matrices, sensitizers, and inhibitors at nanometer scale — directly transferred to semiconductor photoresist development when consumer film demand collapsed after 2000. Fujifilm CEO Shigetaka Komori's strategy of 'second founding' redirected film chemistry into healthcare imaging, cosmetics (CoQ10 via fermentation), pharmaceuticals, and semiconductor materials. The company that made the Fujifilm disposable camera is now a major EUV resist supplier and manufactures influenza drugs — the broadest dual-use portfolio in the materials industry.

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  • Origin2023

    Fujifilm's transformation is one of the most discussed corporate pivots in business history: the consumer photography film company that faced existential threat from digital cameras redirected its core competency -- precision photochemistry at nanometer scale -- into healthcare imaging, pharmaceuticals, and semiconductor photoresist. CEO Shigetaka Komori's 2004 strategic plan for Fujifilm's 'second founding' identified that film chemistry expertise was transferable to medical imaging contrast agents, anti-aging cosmetics (CoQ10 and collagen synthesis), pharmaceutical manufacturing, and semiconductor photoresist. Fujifilm launched the Astalift skincare brand, built Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies (a major biopharmaceutical CDMO), produced Avigan (favipiravir antiviral), and entered EUV photoresist manufacturing -- all from the silver halide chemistry heritage of photographic film. The company that in 1980 made film for the Fujifilm green disposable camera is in 2024 manufacturing photoresist for the chips inside AI servers. Kodak, the US film competitor, went bankrupt; Fujifilm pivoted and now supplies critical materials across healthcare, semiconductors, and pharma simultaneously.

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