Hokko Chemical: crop protection and fine chemicals
Hokko Chemical Industry of Tokyo, founded in 1950: chemical and microbial crop protection and intermediates for agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals.
Hokko Chemical Industry is a Tokyo-based Japanese maker of crop protection products and fine chemicals, established in 1950 and selling through the ZEN-NOH network.
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Hokko Chemical Industry is a Japanese manufacturer established in 1950 and headquartered in Tokyo. It runs two business units, crop protection products and fine chemicals, and its Tokyo head office acts as the network centre for supplying crop protection products. In Japan the company works with the ZEN-NOH network for sales, while carrying out its own manufacturing and research at its factories and laboratories.
The crop protection business develops chemical and microbial solutions and the formulations that turn active substances into products a farmer can apply. Farms use these formulated products. The fine chemicals business serves a different customer: industrial buyers of raw materials and intermediates for agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals. One of its core technologies is Grignard synthesis. Main factories in Hokkaido, Niigata and Okayama support both businesses.
Size of the business
Hokko had 629 employees at the end of November 2025, counting the company alone without group subsidiaries. It has three main factories, in Hokkaido, Niigata and Okayama.
Are Hokko and ZEN-NOH the same company?
No. Hokko is a manufacturer, and ZEN-NOH is an important partner in its Japanese sales channel.
What does Fine Chemicals mean at Hokko?
It is the specialty chemicals business, which supplies intermediates for agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals to other manufacturers.
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