TSK Corporation Bonding the People, Materials, and Nature with Chemistry

TSK Corporation was established on July 1, 2021. TSK is an acronym for Tetsu Shokubai Kagaku【鐵触媒化学】. Tetsu【鐵】is the old Chinese character for iron, “the king of metals. Shokubai Kagaku【触媒化学】is catalytic chemistry. In 1996, I started researching “Iron-Catalyzed Precise Organic Synthetic Reactions” during the last year of my Dr course study. In 2006, I was appointed as a professor at the Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, where I met the current CEO of TSK, Dr. Euncheol Son (then D3 in Tamao Group). Dr. Son later worked at Sekisui Chemical and Samsung Display before going independent in 2019. In 2016, I met Mr. Matsuura, the TSK COO, at an industry-academia exchange meeting at the Uji Campus. This team was selected for the 2020 Incubation Program (IPG) of Kyoto University. Under its support, Mr. Matsuda and Mr. Avena, talented synthetic organic chemists, have joined, establishing a new iron-catalyzed methodology for synthesizing organic electronic materials. At the start of 2023, Ms. Yamada, Mr. Imai, and Mr. Allys have also joined the company, and we all are pursuing New Material Resource Revolution (NMR2)” This new Chemistry will gently and joyfully re-bond nature and humanity. We are running full speed toward such a future!