Azmax Co., Ltd.

Azmax Co., Ltd. is a Japanese specialty chemical trading company based in Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture, with a second office in Nihonbashi Kayabacho, Tokyo. It is part of the Azuma Group, a family of chemical-industry service businesses that has served the Japanese market for more than 50 years. Azmax itself was established on 1 April 1995 to meet growing domestic demand for metal-organic materials and food analysis test kits, and it has since broadened its catalogue year by year. Azmax operates as an importer and distributor rather than a manufacturer: the company states that it deals in the products of other companies, bringing thousands of items from suppliers around the world to Japanese customers. Its product range spans chemical products for medical and agricultural use, functional ingredients, and raw materials and test kits for the food, feed and environmental industries. Core categories include functional-material chemicals, inspection reagent kits, and food additives and raw materials. The company positions itself on quality, uniqueness and breadth of range, combined with a customer-driven approach. It notes that the Japanese advanced-technology market expects exceptionally high quality, and that its staff go to great lengths to ensure the products it carries meet those expectations. Its customer base is therefore concentrated in Japanese industry, research and quality-control settings rather than in consumer retail. Azmax is a small, privately held company. Its stated capital is 50 million yen (paid-in capital) and it reported 16 employees, with banking relationships at the Chiba Bank Goi branch, the Chiba Shinkin Bank Goi branch and the former Japan Finance Corporation for Small Business, Chiba branch. Katsuya Yamazaki serves as president. The company maintains a bilingual Japanese/English web presence and organizes its offering around three main product lines: chemical products, test kits, and food additives and raw materials.

Azmax Co., Ltd. traces its origins to the Azuma Group, a Japanese chemical-industry services organization that, according to the company, has been providing diverse chemical industry services to the Japanese market for over 50 years. That longer group history predates Azmax itself and forms the commercial backdrop against which the trading company was created. Azmax was founded on 1 April 1995. The company states that it was established to meet growing demand for metal-organic materials and food analysis test kits — two niches that were expanding in Japan at the time. From the outset, Azmax's model was that of a specialist importer and distributor: rather than manufacturing, it would source products from companies around the globe and bring them to Japanese customers. Over the following decades the company broadened its catalogue. Its own account notes that its robust product line expands each year with new and innovative products to meet the changing needs of the market. The product portfolio grew to cover chemical products for medical and agricultural use, functional ingredients, and raw materials and test kits for the food, feed and environmental industries. The company organizes these under three main headings: chemical products (functional-material chemicals), test kits (inspection reagent kits), and food additives and raw materials. Azmax built its reputation in Japan on the quality, uniqueness and breadth of the products it carries, together with a customer-driven approach. The company emphasizes that the Japanese advanced-technology market expects exceptionally high quality, and that its staff go to great lengths to ensure the products it distributes meet those expectations. Because it deals only in the products of other companies, its role is essentially that of a trusted intermediary and technical distributor between global suppliers and Japanese industrial, research and quality-control customers. The company is headquartered at 1-6-13 Tamasakinishi, Ichihara-shi, Chiba-ken, Japan, an industrial city in Chiba Prefecture, and maintains a Tokyo office at the Tekko Kaikan Building in Nihonbashi Kayabacho, Chuo-ku. It is a small private company: its stated paid-in capital is 50 million yen and it reported 16 employees. Its banking relationships are with the Chiba Bank Goi branch, the Chiba Shinkin Bank Goi branch and the former Japan Finance Corporation for Small Business, Chiba branch. Katsuya Yamazaki serves as president. The company maintains a bilingual Japanese/English website and continues to operate as part of the Azuma Group.

• 1995

  Azmax Co., Ltd. is established on 1 April 1995 to meet growing demand for metal-organic materials and food analysis test kits.

• Azmax operates as part of the Azuma Group, which has served the Japanese chemical industry for over 50 years.

• The company expands its product line each year, adding new and innovative products across chemicals, test kits, and food additives and raw materials.

Importer and distributor of high-quality, unique specialty chemicals and test kits for the Japanese advanced-technology, medical, agricultural, food, feed and environmental markets, differentiated by a customer-driven approach.

• Functional-material chemicals

• Inspection reagent kits

• Food additives and raw materials

• Metal-organic materials

• Food analysis test kits

1. 1AZmax Co.,Ltd official website (English)en.azmax.co.jp
2. 2Company Information | AZmax Co.,Ltden.azmax.co.jp
3. 3Azmax Co., Ltd. (Japan) — Wikidatawikidata.org