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Fuji Chemical Industries in Toyama. It makes pharmaceuticals and has the technology of spraying and drying to form powders.
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Fuji Chemical Industries Co., Ltd. is a pharmaceutical manufacturer based in Kamiichi, Nakaniikawa District, Toyama Prefecture. It has developed the antacid Neusilin (magnesium aluminometasilicate), the excipients Fujicalin and F-MELT, and the astaxanthin raw material AstaReal. Astaxanthin in particular was the first in the world to be successfully produced commercially on a stable basis. It is the only company in Japan that owns a spray dryer at production scale (as of 2016).
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Field：Pharmaceuticals, spray drying
Source pref.toyama.jp ↗Official website
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