We in the Kuraray Group are committed to opening new fields of business using pioneering technology and contributing to improvement of the natural environment and quality of life.

Kuraray was founded in 1926 for the purpose of commercializing synthetic rayon, which was cutting edge-technology at the time. In 1950, during the post-World War II period, as Japan’s first domestic producer of synthetic fiber based on original Japanese technologies, Kuraray became a world leader in the commercialization of PVA (Poval) fiber under the KURALON brand, ushering in Japan’s pioneering era in the chemical synthetic fiber industry.