Founded: July 1952 Incorporated: April 1964 Capital: ¥ 4,480 million as of Mar 31, 2007 Revenue: ¥ 97,623 million (consolidated) for fiscal year 2006 　　　　　　　¥ 90,867 million (non-consolidated) Ordinary Income: ¥ 9,573 million (consolidated) for fiscal year 2006 　　　　　　　　　　　　¥ 8,892 million (non-consolidated)　 No.of employees: 945 (consolidated) as of Mar 31, 2007 　　　　　　　　　　　 　750 (non-consolidated) Business Lines: Recycling (collection, recovery, refinement) and sales of precious & rare metals (gold, silver, palladium, platinum, indium, etc.) Manufacture and sales of precious metal alloy Manufacture and sales of chemicals for plating Manufacture, sales and rental of electrolytic recovery equipment for gold and silver Treatment of industrial wastes and specially-controlled industrial wastes Detoxification of hazardous wastes Analysis for precious & rare metals Analysis for sludge and water quality Business Network Head Office Kobe Tokyo Regional Branch Kita-Kanto Shizuoka Hanshin (Osaka office) Kobe Shikoku Fukuoka Kitakyushu Office Sapporo Aomori Sendai Niigata Kanto Yokohama Kofu Nagoya Hokuriku Okayama Hiroshima Kagoshima Okinawa   Technical Reseach Center (R&D base) Saitama Recycling Center Chiba Recycling Center Amagasaki Recycling Center Subsidiary     Nihon Chemitech Co., Ltd Sansho Co., Ltd. Shioiri Kenzai Co., Ltd. Iyotec Co., Ltd. Taiyo Chemical Ltd. Co. ASAHI G&S SDN. BHD. (Malaysia) Shanghai Asahipretec Co., Ltd. Asahipretec Korea Co., Ltd. Clients (In the order of the Japanese syllabary ) Asahi Shimbun Ibiden Co., Ltd. N.E.Chemcat Corporation Eastman Kodak Company Konika Minolta holdings,Inc. Samsung Electronics Sharp Corporation Johnson Matthey Japan Inc. Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd. Sumitomo Corporation Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. Dainippon Screen MFG Co., Ltd. Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. Toyota Motor Corporation Nikko Materials Co., Ltd. Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc. Noritsu Koki Co., Ltd. Pioneer Corporation Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd. Fuji Film Co., Ltd. Mainichi Shimbun Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd. Mitsui Mining and smelting Co., Ltd. Mitsui & Co., Ltd. Mitsubishi Corporation Mitsubishi Electric Corporation Mitsubishi Materials Corporation Umicore Precious Metals Japan Co., Ltd. The Yomiuri Shimbun Renesas Technology Corp., Japan Mint Hospitals & medical clinics Dental clinics Dental laboratories Dental materials makers Jewelry industries Metal plating industries Semiconductor/electronic components makers, etc.