Various products are manufactured from petroleum and natural gas. In the process of manufacturing these products, various types of important chemicals aare manufactured by catalysts. N. E. Chemcat Corporation manufactures catalysts used for petroleum refinement, petrochemistry, fine chemicals, gas purification, and the prevention of pollution, such as exhaust gas from plants.
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N. E. Chemcat Corporation develops and manufactures "automobile emission gas purifying catalysts" that can purify carbon monoxide (CO), hydrocarbon (HC), nitrogen oxide (NOx), etc., contained in automobile emission gas. In addition, through close communication with automobile manufacturers, the company tries to satisfy their demands for higher performance in durability, purification, cold activation, and heat resistance of the emission gas purifying catalysts.
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Nippon Ketjen Co., Ltd. was jointly established in 1970 by SMM and Akzo Nobel Corporation in the Netherlands (the name of which was changed to Albemarle Corporation on August 2, 2004) (50% ownership belonging to SMM and 50% to Akzo Nobel), and it has provided customers with a hydroprocessing catalyst (HPC), which plays the most important part in the petroleum refining process.
The hydroprocessing catalyst is closely related to the refinement of high-quality and clean petroleum products that contain low sulphur and nitrogen contents. The company not only develops, manufactures, and sells this hydroprocessing catalyst but also provides offsite regeneration and preliminary sulphuration of catalysts, technological services, and licensing business. It pursues further development and economic efficiency in petroleum refining technologies while aiming to contribute to the preservation of the global environment through its business operations.
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Nippon Catalyst Cycle Co., Ltd. recovers molybdenum and vanadium, which are not yielded in Japan, from used desulphurization catalysts for petroleum refinement. Although used desulphurization catalysts have been disposed of in the soil up until now, SMM recovers these rare metals using the separation and refinement technologies it has developed over the years, and sells them as highly-pure MoO3 and V2O5.
SMM contributes to society through its catalyst business, its environmental business that helps reduce wastes, and its rare metal providing business, all of which are enabled through cooperation with Nippon Catalyst Cycle Co., Ltd., one of SMM's group companies.