Makoto Shirai

CoorsTek KK develops and manufactures semiconductor materials. It offers general industrial, automotive, electric, and mechanical, semiconductor related, solar cell related, bio and medical related products. The company was founded on September 4, 1928 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Sankyo Rikagaku Co. Ltd. engages in the manufacturing and marketing of abrasive paper/cloth & related products. It also handles purchased products such as abrasive materials, grinding machines & tools & adhesive tapes. The company was founded in October 1, 1930 and is headquartered in Okegawa, Japan.

Qualicaps Co., Ltd. manufactures and markets hard gelatin and HPMC capsules, capsule filling equipment, and sealing machinery. Its products include pharmaceutical and health food capsules, capsule filling machines, capsule filling machine auger type, capsule weight inspection machine, laser imprinting system, and tablet imprinting machine. The company was founded on April 26, 1965 and is headquartered in Yamatokoriyama, Japan.

AvanStrate, Inc. engages in the manufacture and sale of glass substrates for Thin-Film-Transistor (TFT) color liquid crystal displays (LCDs). It offers LCD glass substrates which are used in LCD televisions, LCD monitors for personal computers, mobile phones, touch panels, and three-dimensional televisions. The company was founded on May 21, 1991 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Carlyle Japan Asset Management YK (Carlyle Japan Asset Management) is a private equity subsidiary of The Carlyle Group LP (Global Private Equity) founded in 2000. The firm is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Sunsho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. engages in the planning, development and outsourced manufacturing of health-foods, medicinal products, non-medicinal products, cosmetics, general foodstuffs and sundries. Its operations are carried out through the following business divisions: Outsourced Pharmaceutical Production, Outsourced Packaging and Selection of Raw and Packaging Materials. The Outsourced Pharmaceutical Production division provides soft capsules, hard capsules, seamless capsules, tablets, Tablate®, granules, jellies, mini-drinks, etc. The Outsourced Packaging division provides all kinds of packaging such as PTP, stick, three-sided seal, three-sided assorted, bottle opening three-sided seal, bottle opening stick, pillow, aluminum laminated zip, bags, bottles and boxes, etc. The Selection of Raw and Packaging Materials provides cultivation, extraction, concentration, fermentation, purification, pulverization and sterilization, sales of soft capsule molds, manufacturing machines and complete production lines. The company was founded by Takashi Kondo on November 4, 1993 and is headquartered in Fuji, Japan.

Part of The Carlyle Group Inc., Carlyle Japan LLC is a Japanese company that provides investment advice. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Simplex, Inc. engages in the acquisition and retention of share certificates. It provides consulting, system development, maintenance and operations to financial institutions to enable revenue generation through the use of sophisticated technologies. The company was founded on September 16, 1997 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

AOI Holdings Co., Ltd. provides planning and sales of energy and automotive products and services. The company was founded on September 17, 1960 and is headquartered in Fukui, Japan.