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Personal Care

Toothpaste and calcium fortifying agent

Dicalcium phosphate

Tosoh dicalcium phosphate is mainly used in toothpaste and as an additive in food and pharmaceutical products to help contribute to better health. Tosoh Finechem maintains strict quality controls to guarantee a consistently safe product, and has pioneered an ultra-pure phosphate used to produce dicalcium phosphate with the highest levels of quality. Tosoh dicalcium phosphate meets the stringent standards required for food additives, making it widely used as a phosphorous and calcium fortifying agent in food products.


Contact lenses

Fluorester®

Tosoh's Fluorester (2,2,2-Trifluoroethyl Methacrylate) is useful for high oxygen permeable contact lenses and coating optical fibers. Tosoh has accumulated a unique expertise in the field of fluorinated organic compounds and their derivatives.


Athletic footware

Nipoflex® ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer

Tosoh Nipoflex is used in the air cushions of athletic shoes, which serve to protect the joints when jogging or participating in sports. Tosoh Nipoflex resins are also used in a variety of consumer goods like toys and basic household items.


Flavors, cosmetics and more

Aromatic compounds

Tosoh's aromatics plant has become a significant producer of benzene, xylene, and toluene (BTX), or aromatic compounds by which a wide variety of products are derived, including flavors, fragrances, cosmetics and many types of household products.


Fragrances, pharmaceuticals and more

Organic intermediates

Tosoh applies multi-purpose organic-synthesis to the production of halogenated intermediates, particularly bromine compounds, which are important intermediate materials for a wide variety of chemicals such as pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, flavors and fragrances.

 

 


Tosoh products are in such day-to-day items from contact lenses, cosmetics and footwear to toothpaste, food and pharmaceuticals.