Asahi Kasei America, Inc.
 
   
  Asahi Kasei Group - US
Asahi Kasei America, Inc.
AKM Semiconductor, Inc.
Asaclean - Sun Plastech, Inc.
Asahi Kasei Medical America, Inc.
Asahi Kasei Plastics North America, Inc.


  Products
Asaclean® - purging compound
Celphere™ - MCC spheres

Ceolus™ - microcrystalline cellulose
Glass-reinforced styrenics
Leona™ - polyamide 66
MMEV - speech codec
PCS™ - pregelatinized starch
Pimel™ - PSPI
Planova™ - virus removal filter
Plasma therapy products
Polypropylene - mineral filled
Polypropylene - unfilled specialty
REXEED™ - dialyzers
Semiconductors - mixed-signal
Sepacell® - leukocyte reduction filters
Tenac™ - polyacetal homopolymer
Tenac-C™ - polyacetal copolymer
Thermylene™ - filled polypropylene
Thermylon™ - reinforced nylon 6, 6/6
VOCLE - hands free middleware
VORERO - speech recognition                     middleware
   
VOStalk - text to speech middleware
Xyron™ - modified polyphenylene ether

 

Contact

Asahi Kasei America, Inc.
535 Madison Avenue, 33rd Floor
New York, NY 10022 
Phone: 212-371-9900
Fax: 212-371-9050
E-mail: info@ak-america.com

Celphere™
(MCC* spheres)
 
Celphere™ is a 100% MCC* spherical seed core for drug layering and film coating. It is highin mechanical strength and water absorption and is an optimum seed core for a wide range of aqueous layering and coating systems.
Ceolus™
 
Ceolus™ KG is the world's most compactible MCC dry binder, as an inherent effect of its distinctive rod-form particle shape. With its high compactibility, it is particularly effective for reducing the tablet size of large-dose drugs, and for the tableting of pressure-sensitive drugs, coated-granule tablets, and orally dispersible tablets. Ceolus® PH and RC are also available. pressure-sensitive drugs, coated-granule tablets, and orally dispersible tablets.
MMEV
(speech codec)
 
MMEV is a voice compression/decompression engine which enables real-time processing on an embedded processor. It is based on a multimodal multipulse excitation vocoder developed jointly by Asahi Kasei and Georgia Institute of Technology (USA), and uses proprietary Asahi Kasei technology to achieve higher sound quality and to enable compatibility with both 8 kHz and 11 kHz sampling rates.
PCS™
 
PCS™ is a non-soluble pregelatinized starch which retains the shell structure of starch grains but has an extremely low water-soluble content. It is a versatile excipient; it serves as dissolution enhancer, granulation aid, and stabilizer for moisture-sensitive drugs, and carrier for hygroscopic materials.
Pimel™
(PSPI)
 
Pimel™ is photosensitive polyimide precursor for semiconductor buffer coating application on memory, logic and other advanced devices. Pimel™ is patternable with standard developement process of photoresist and offers excellent film properties of polyimide after cure.
VOCLE
(hands free middleware)
 
VOCLE hands-free middleware is a noise suppression and echo cancellation engine featuring high performance in various noise environments.
VORERO
(speech recognition middleware)
 
VORERO offers a range of speech-related software middleware.The Voice Interface Project is targeting embedded systems, primarily in the automotive industry. These products are purely software and can easily be ported onto various platforms.In addition, Vorero offers expert assistance in the development of speech solution to the customers who request it, for lack of time, resources or expertise.
VOStalk
(text to speech middleware)
 
VOStalk is a compact Japanese-language TTS engine based on Asahi Kasei voice technology. It features high-quality sound and natural prosody with low processor load and low memory requirements.

* MCC = Microcrystalline Cellulose