Nippon Soda Co., Ltd.

Nippon Soda (Japanese日本 曹 达 株式会社, Nippon Soda kabushiki kaisha, English Nippon Soda Co. Ltd., in short:. . NISSO (日 曹) ) is a Japanese chemical company.

The company began in 1920 with the sodium hydroxide production by chlor-alkali electrolysis. Today has Nippon Soda sodium carbonate plants in Nihongi ( Joetsu ), Takaoka, Mizushima ( Kurashiki ) and Chiba ( Ichihara ). Nippon Soda also provides phosphorus, calcium hypochlorite and the controversial thermal paper developer D-8 ago. Its products also include polybutadiene oils, fungicides iminoctadine triacetate ( Befran ), thiophanate -methyl ( Topsin -M) and cyflufenamid ( Vegas ) and the insecticides acetamiprid ( Mospilan ), tebufenozide ( Romdan ) and the acaricide Hexythiazox ( Nissorun ). : 12 the Düsseldorf subsidiary Nisso Chemical Europe is responsible for the pesticide distribution in the EU.

Nippon Soda formed the core company of the battered after the war NISSO Group.