Businessweek

Japan Carlit Co., Ltd. engages in the manufacture and sale of chemical goods and electronic materials. It provides industrial explosives, including emulsion explosives, ANFO explosives, detonating cords, and other explosives for use in mining, quarrying, civil engineering, and other fields; signal flares comprising red fusee for motor vehicles, signal flares for road work, fusee for road work, and signal flare for railway and fire drills; and hazard evaluation tests for hazard evaluation of chemical compounds. The company produces oxychloride chemicals for use as raw material in bleaching, solid propellant for rockets, etc.; develops chlorine dioxide generation systems for paper and pulp industry; and develops and produces agrochemicals for agriculture and forestry industry, railroad route construction, household gardening, and other uses; and herbicides, liquid fertilizers, fungicides to powdery mildews, and termite chemicals to protect homes. In addition, it offers disinfecting systems for use in water supply and food industry, and to prevent growth of shellfish in the ocean water lines of coastal plants and ships; seawater hydrolysis systems to prevent growth of marine organisms; crafts electroconductive materials and other high-quality materials for use in electronic machinery industry; production and development of the functional high polymer electrolyte capacitors, electroconductive polymers, near-infrared ray absorbants for information storage, charge control agents, conductive property instilling agents, and other electronic materials, as well as TCNQ complexes salts for use as material in semiconductor electrolyte capacitors. The company was founded in 1934 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.