Japan Pure Chemical
(JPC) is commonly mistaken for a startup because of its small management
team and management buyout (MBO) and because its shares are traded
on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. In fact, JPC was
founded in 1971 and has more than 30 years of experience in manufacturing.
During this time, it has developed a highly profitable business model
without struggling in investing in people, goods, and funds. By narrowing
our targets to precious metal plating processing in the cutting-edge
electronics industry and implementing cost-savings for expensive
precious metals, including non-manufacturing aspects such as consulting
solutions, we have created a highly profitable product lineup and
a clear distinction from general manufacturing industries, which
must seek economies of scale.
When assessing JPC's performance,
the focus should be on gross profit rather than sales revenues
Sales revenues vary greatly depending on whether or not precious
metals are also sold. Precious metals are expensive and have
a major impact on sales revenues. Even when we sell precious
metals, however, we obtain no income other than a commission
and as such earnings are negligible, gross profit does not
increase. Accordingly, it is possible to estimate the sales
volume of JPC's manufactured chemicals by looking at gross
profit.
JPC's plating solutions
exhibit excellent product quality, such as resistance to corrosion
of deposited precious metal films, high speed and stable plating
solutions, and uniform plating layers.
JPC products contribute to higher
yields in user plating processes and smaller volumes of precious
metals used.
JPC's plating solutions respond
flexibly to changes in mass production plating conditions and plating
solution composition, the presence of impurities, and so on. This
minimizes control issues in plating processes and contributes to
higher efficiency.
High performance
means that the precious metal thin films created using JPC
plating solutions are excellent. Achieving high performance
necessitates a high degree of purity in thin metal films
or a low level of variation in the composition and the proper
crystalline structure, depending on the application. JPC's
plating solutions apply the basic technologies necessary
to achieve this. High quality means that our plating solutions
are easy to control, and through the provision of tailored
technology services, user plating processes are performed
stably for thin metal films with low levels of variation.
Achieving high quality requires thin metal films of uniform
thickness, broad process tolerances that can respond flexibly
to changes in plating operations, monitoring of changes in
the composition of customer solutions, and the provision
of appropriate guidance. JPC has the basic technologies and
technology services to carry this out.
