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Nihon Shokuhin Kako Co., Ltd.
Japanese specialty starch and cyclodextrin producer; produces alpha, beta, and gamma cyclodextrins for pharmaceutical, food, and industrial applications. One of Japan's primary cyclodextrin producers from enzymatic starch fermentation. Supplies Japanese pharmaceutical market and exports.
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Starches & Starch Derivatives
45%Cyclodextrins
25%Food Additives & Functional Ingredients
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Origin2022
Nihon Shokuhin Kako Co., Ltd. (日本食品化工), a Japanese starch processing company, is one of Japan's primary producers of cyclodextrins for pharmaceutical and food applications — making it part of the small global cluster of companies (Wacker Chemie in Germany, Roquette in France, Cyclolab in Hungary, and a few others) that supply the cyclodextrin excipient market. Japan's pharmaceutical industry has been an early adopter of cyclodextrin-based drug formulations: beta-cyclodextrin and its derivatives have been approved in Japan for pharmaceutical use since the 1980s, earlier than in the US and EU, giving Japanese companies like Nihon Shokuhin Kako a longer track record in pharmaceutical-grade cyclodextrin production. The company's corn-starch-to-cyclodextrin supply chain reflects Japan's industrial capacity to perform high-value biotransformations: enzymatic cyclization of starch-derived maltooligosaccharides using cyclodextrin glycosyltransferase (CGTase) is the production step that converts low-value starch into high-value pharmaceutical excipient. The same class of enzyme reaction that makes cyclodextrins also underpins the industrial production of trehalose (a food stabilizer protecting proteins and cells during freeze-drying) — a dual application of industrial enzyme technology that Nihon Shokuhin Kako leverages across both its cyclodextrin and specialty carbohydrate businesses.
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