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Kao Corporation Wakayama Plant — Oleochemicals & Surfactants
Kao Corporation's Wakayama plant is the primary Japanese production site for fatty alcohol-derived surfactants including SLES (Emal brand). The Wakayama complex is vertically integrated: palm kernel oil and coconut oil are processed to fatty alcohols, then ethoxylated and sulfonated to produce SLES. Wakayama is one of Kao's oldest and largest chemical manufacturing sites. Kao's fatty alcohol self-supply from Wakayama makes it structurally independent of third-party fatty alcohol suppliers (Wilmar, KLK) — a meaningful supply security advantage. Source: https://www.kao.com/global/en/about/facilities/manufacturing/
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