● From China's market takeover to the Japanese company

● The faithful sound of the Chilean fishermen who rescued the Japanese company from China's market takeover 🤝 ● ●

Coming to the seashores, rotten seaweed looks like garbage, even in the country where it consumes the most water magic like Japan

There is also a problem in other countries about how to clarify themselves as unused substances that harm the sea environment.

But these water mags are raw materials with useful potential in all fields, such as food, nutritional supplements, cosmetics, fuel and medicine

This is an industry where people are also interested in worldwide

"A company called" Kimika, "a Japanese medium-sized kimika with about 200 employees, is at the top of this business."

Kemika is the world's leading company producing alginic acid, a natural fibre obtained from seaweed, for the food and pharmaceutical market, with about 90% of Japan's domestic market share

In the 1980s, they encountered two major challenges:

The first is a shortage of raw materials

From 1982 to 1983, the El Niño (El Niño) climate phenomenon, which can be said to be the largest of the 20th century, resulted in the Pacific Ocean water surface temperature rising from 3 degrees to 5 degrees Celsius above normal

At this time, it became difficult for kimika (kimika) to get raw water magic from chile

The second challenge is that producers of Alginic acid (Alginic acid) in China have entered the market.

At that time, the alginic acid market was controlled by European and American companies, but Chinese companies began to dominate the market using the advantage of low-cost labor and price competition

Their quality has not yet met the quality of kimika required for the food and medicine market, but in the industrial use market, they have increased market share, which has also brought the whole market of alginic acid down in price.

How he overcame such challenges was explained by the company's third generation director, Zentaro Kasahara, who said:

His father, Fumiyoshi Kasahara, who joined Kimika in 1984, said he was committed to becoming a world-class producer, focusing solely on the alginic acid industry.

The company's founder's younger brother, Manpei Kasahara, has been chasing water magic collecting places around the world for fear of a shortage of raw water magic

Manpei has studied in detail the situation of seaweed, market, purchase system and transportation in different countries.

He found that seaweed off the coast of Chile was quantitative and of good quality

Also, we found that there was some kind of place that could be dried in a natural way, like the Atacama desert

So Manpei Kasahara (Manpei Kasahara) suggested building a factory that extracts alginic acid (Alginic acid) in Chile

This method can save costs and reduce geopolitical risk.

Manpee casahara's dream came true in 1987, when he himself moved to chile and became the first president of the local company

In 1989, the only alginic acid (Alginic acid) plant in the southern hemisphere was built and put into operation

Kimmica bought the magic of water that came to the beach from economically unstable fishermen off the coast of northern Chile

It is said that as a result of this work, nearly 10,000 fishermen have achieved a stable income and have escaped poverty.

At present, more than half of the global alginic acid (Alginic acid) market is controlled by China

Most of their products are used for industrial products like cloth dye

China's algenic acid producers have used locally grown seaweeds as raw materials.

Because kimika's raw materials are natural water magic, they are environmentally friendly, and the amount of sources is stable.

But man-made cultivated water magic is not environmentally friendly, and the amount of harvest is unstable

China experienced red water erosion of seaweed farms during the covid-19 pandemic in 2022

Because a lot of microorganisms have spawned and destroyed seaweeds, all of the seaweeds used to produce alginic acid have been destroyed

Because of this, most of China's alginic acid producers have suspended operations.

But some have tried to buy water magic from Chile, and prices have more than tripled in a year

Later, most Chilean fishermen found that although Chinese companies paid higher prices, only kimika continued to sell water magic.

They have lived in poverty since childhood, but their lives have improved because the Japanese have come to help them, and they say they cannot betray kimika for thanking them.

Because of this loyal spirit, kimika did not cause a shortage of raw materials and became the only company in the world to continue to provide stable alginic acid (Alginic acid).

So within the industry, their reputation has increased further and their market share has increased

The kimika are more concerned with the growth and stability of the market than their profits.

That's why we're supporting water magic not to be robbed, too much arrested, and we're providing water magic to rival companies, including China

The question may be whether such valuable seaweed will not disappear because of global warming,

Kimmica believes that only the spread of seaweed will change and will not disappear completely off the coast of Chile.

If the environment had changed enough that the water magic had disappeared from Chile, human beings would not have survived either, they said

He said seaweed off the coast of Chile would continue to reach the beach as long as humans survive.

It is only that kimika has achieved success because he honestly faced the difficulties and carried out the business

"It was won in competition with Chinese companies because of the sincere spirit of buying water magic at a fair price, concerning the lives of Chilean fishermen."

In 2024, kimika also won the "most important company in japan" award.

Such achievements have been made because they value human relations, including employees working in both Japan and overseas.

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