Corporate Data

Corporate Data
Corporate Name	Soda Aromatic Co., Ltd.
Head Office	No.2-3 Nihonbashi Kodemmacho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, 103-8366 Japan
TEL	+81-3-5645-7347
FAX	+81-3-3666-2913
Founded	Apr,1915
Established	Sep,1972
Common Stock	\1,490,000,000
Total Shares	10,000,000
Fiscal Year-end	March 31
Business Lines	Productions, sales, imports, and exports of fragrances, flavors, feed flavors, tobacco flavors, aroma chemicals, industrial chemicals, and others.
Sales by Business	Fragrances 10%、Flavors 41%、Aroma-/Fine-chemicals 49%
Number of Employees	290（As of March 31, 2009）
Offices	Osaka Branch Sapporo Sales Offices Noda Factory Koriyama Factory
Board of Directors and Auditors
President	Toshiro Nakaji
Managing Director	Hitoshi Harigae Naobumi Nakajima
Directors	Masayuki Kataoka Michio Kimura Kiyoshi Sakamoto Osamu Nakatani
Corporate Auditors	Yoshinobu Soda Shougo Masuda Tatsuo Kobayashi

Fragrance Creation

People creating fragrances Fragrance is invisible jewellery with fine artistic work, they say. It is made of fine materials from various parts of the world and very well polished and treated by creators. Soda is proud of people engaged in this fine work at our creative laboratory. Creative laboratory is however not a single important factor of fragrance creation.Those working at raw materials selection and analysis, aroma chemicals synthesis, research and development are also integral parts of it. Another important job for fragrance creation is an application research, analysing and evaluating the compatibility between a fragrance and a base material, thermal and UV aging testing. Fragrance is in such way created by a team work of creators, technical supporting staffs, and even customers join it. Market Research Requirement for fragrance changes as people changes, as time goes on. Soda aromatic also has to change as our life style and culture change. New products, innovation, trend and fashion, many things come and go. We watch things, the world and people, to create new things right fitting to what people want.

Flavor Creation

Customers' concern with flavor in food and beverage use is high quality, safety,healthiness, cleanliness and in some cases natural. To steadily fulfil these requirements, we have various quality control programs at a flavor compounding factory recently on steam with modernized facility, key components manufacturing in house, and close watch on FDA, FEMA and the other regulations. We produce all kinds of lactones, natural recovered flavors, and the other natural flavor ingredients by making use of various technologies including enzymatic reaction, fermentation and analysis systems. Some of our specialities created by our advanced technologies are fruits and citrus flavors for juice and soft drink application, tea flavor of various kinds, and dairy flavors for various uses including cream, margarine, dessert, candy and cake. Creators and sales staffs at Soda are always ready to talk and work together with customers throughout the world as a team to develop something new and special.

Feed Flavor & Petfood Flavor

Flavor may have an essential function in a dairy industry when a right flavor used in milk replacer have cattle and hog grow very quickly for example.
Soda offers fruity and milky flavors for feed use, and meat, fish and dairy flavors for petfood use, both in oil and powder forms.
Soda's speciality developed lately is lipolyzed butter oil(LBO) base flavor for feed and petfood. Our enzym technology makes unusually high fat decomposition possible to have a very strong dairy note at competitive cost.

Tobacco Flavor

Soda has been the largest flavor supplier for Japanese tobacco industry in the last 70 years, supplying a full range of flavors including tobacco flavor, tobacco extract, reaction flavor, fermented flavor, enzym treated flavor and lot of other natural and synthetic flavor materials, for casing sauce and top dressing.
All are conformed to various safety regulations in the world.

Aroma Chemicals

They call us "Lactone House". Gamma Lactones production started 1959, followed by Delta Lactones in 1960. It is not well known that before lactones were launched off, Ethyl Vanillin production took off in 1956. Historically Soda's aroma chemicals business is yet much older than that. Soda's first aroma production started with Borneol and lonone in 1931. Our aroma business was diversified when started production of Pentalide, synthetic musk in 1961, and Sandeol, synthetic sandalwoodoil in 1969.

	Musks Pentalide (cyclopentadecanolide) TM-Ⅱ (5-cyclohexadecen-1-one) MC-4 (ethylene dodecanedioate) MC-5 (ethylene brassylate) Lactones Gamma Lactones C5 through C12 Delta Lactones C6 through C14 Epsilon Lactones C10,C12 Whisky Lactone Sugar Lactone Aldehydes Ethyl Vanillin Vanillin para-Tolyl Aldehyde Ketones Acetoin (acetyl methyl carbinol) Methyl Cyclopentenolone Anhydrous Others Sandeol Milk Lactone Methionol Angelates Sulfurol

Chemicals Synthesis

Aroma ingredients found in flowers, fruits, vegetables and all other nature, have usually chemical functions of alcohol, aldehyde, ketone or ester, and many of these aromas are nowadays produced by chemical synthesis. Chemical synthesis technology is however not only single essential factor for aroma production, but separation and purification is also important. Impurities are very key parts of aroma chemicals some cases to produce what is exactly required in use of flavors and fragrances. Very fine analysis technology and production system with a strict quality control are also essential for aroma chemicals manufacturing. The most important thing is, you may say, olfactory evaluation. Some aroma chemicals are produced in a fairly large scale while numberless items are produced in a very small volume. In such ways, one living in the aroma chemicals industry should have various technologies, systems and spirit of good manufacturing practice. All these things at Soda are available for you through a toll manufacturing or a joint development team work arrangement. Pharmaceutical and agrichemical intermediates, and many fine chemicals for electronics industry are the example of such a joint development work operated at Soda.

Research & Development

Natural Aroma Chemicals
Organic Synthesis has played a very important role in the flavor and fragrance industry's growth by supplying various competitive aroma chemicals even replacing natural products some cases.
Nowadays they put a new spot light on natural products, not traditional natural products but something special with high performance for the purpose of healthy and natural food and beverage use, a delicate, safe and natural scent for fragrance uses and even for a luxurious perfume use.
At Soda Aromatic, these new natural aromas are produced by various advanced technologies including super critical gas extraction, fermentation, enzymatic reaction,molecular distillation and even liquid chromatographic technology.
The first step of natural aroma production is sometimes a preparatory treatment,fermentation, ripening and roasting, of natural materials to modify or enhance base aromas in the materials.
An important job after aroma extraction by some means, is separation and concentration followed by other treatments sometimes including enzym reaction, Maillard reaction, high pressure treatment and even chemical reaction.
Soda operates numerous instruments and facilities, some are designed and provided uniquely for ourselves, to develop and produce natural aroma products.