Kaneka Corporation is a Japanese chemicals manufacturer, specializing in the production of polymers and resins. Recently, higher market demand for functional resin was resulting in significantly greater demand for one of Kaneka’s high-value products. The company needed to increase production quickly to meet the rising demand, and it wanted to do so without making any significant additional capital investment.

Mitsubishi Chemical Group Corporation, Japan’s largest chemical company, faced quality problems in the company's polymer manufacturing processes that could not be detected on time, resulting in impacts to production. Using Aspen Hybrid Models with Aspen Plus®, Mitsubishi Chemical Group Corporation had the opportunity to create a robust and performant model that accurately predicted quality issues and supported preventive actions.

Novozymes A/S, a global biotechnology company based in Denmark, was looking to support the development and optimization of biodiesel processes due to increasing biodiesel market demand, rising materials costs and more stringent industry regulations.

SABIC is a leading multinational manufacturing company, specializing in the manufacture of petrochemicals, chemicals, industrial polymers, fertilizers and metals. Energy efficiency is a key focus area for SABIC. To close the gap towards achieving 2025 goals, SABIC identified the need to quantify energy losses and execute actions to optimize operations while addressing daily plant challenges.

FP Corporation (FPCO) is Japan’s largest manufacturer of food containers and a logistics service provider delivering a range of products to stores engaged in food distribution. They needed to provide stable and responsive food distribution in an efficient and environmentally friendly way.

競争の激しい市場でビジネスを成長させるために、大阪に本社を置く化学品メーカーのダイセルは、特定の市場の需要を満たすために狭い分子量分布を持つポリマーを開発する必要がありました。この事例では、ダイセルがどのようにアスペンポリマーを使用してカスタムRAFT重合モデルを開発したかをご覧頂けます。このモデルにより、お客様はプロセス条件を最適化し、実験コストを削減できるようになりました。これにより、次の利点がもたらされました。

日本に本社を置き、創業から140年の歴史を誇るグローバル製薬会社がAspen Plusを導入して新規原薬（API）の合成を改善しました。同社は、創薬に重点を置きながら医薬品や医療機器の研究開発から製造、販売まで行っています。

In order to grow its business in a highly competitive market, Daicel, a chemicals manufacturer headquartered in Osaka, needed to develop polymers with narrow molecular weight distributions to meet a specific market demand. Read how Daicel used Aspen Polymers to develop a custom RAFT polymerization model. This model enabled our customer to optimize process conditions and reduce experimental costs, which provided the following benefits:

Non-linear Advanced Process Control (APC) improved SCG’s product stability and quality, minimized variations, and enabled enhanced transition strategies.

One of the world's largest chemical, plastic and refining companies used Aspen ProMV to understand and resolve production problems caused by an ongoing quench oil high-viscosity issue. In this case study, learn how Aspen ProMV enabled the company to highlight the top process variables highly correlated with viscosity issues, and quickly guided process engineers to the underlying issue to limit losses.