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　Widely distributed in most plants, starch is one of natural ingredients. It is produced in the leaves and green parts of plants by so called “photosynthesis” from water and carbon dioxide by the agency of chlorophyll and the energy of sun. Starch is one of the most safe and clean natural resources and widely being utilized for food, pharmaceutical and various industrial domains. However, use of starch has been somehow limited because of its nature of deterioration and retrogradation. We, at Nippon Starch Chemical Co., Ltd., since its start in 1917, as the global producer of modified starch, has overcome these obstacles and developed modified starch introducing new functions supplementing the drawbacks of natural starch and such upgraded products have been supplying to various fields for more satisfaction to our customers.

　Thanks to remarkable progresses in technologies especially in the domains of communication and information, we could get instantaneously all sort of information from every corners of world. Also thanks to progress in preserving technology in foodstuff and improvement in logistic system, anything which is required to get, could be obtained around the clock. We are continuously making every possible efforts in technical innovation and development of new products to meet better and comfortable daily life. This means that it is required our further and efforts to improve and create new ingredients with multi-function of modified starch to meet tomorrow’s demands.

　On the other hands, however, it is indispensable and most critical requirement to pay serious attention and consideration toward human health and environment as safety, ecology, cleanliness, and recycling are greatly highlighted. We have to tackle with the serious tasks on health and environment for future life.

　We, at Nippon Starch Chemical, have been challenging in every concerned fields to research, develop and produce better products such as ：－
＊food ingredients containing rich dietary fiber.
＊hair-friendly shampoo.
＊recyclable and biodegradating adhesives for packaging.
＊binding agent for glass fiber which is indispensable to produce sophisticated and
　　continuously upgrading circuit board of computers.
＊natural polymer flocculants for safety treatment of waste soil at construction
　　sites and so forth.
There are still many other subjects remained to be settled out and we have to cope with them continuously. We trust that modified starch has an infinite possibility to solve these tasks.

NIPPON STARCH CHEMICAL CO., LTD. E-mail：sales@nichidene.com