Kao Corporation (President and CEO: Motoki Ozaki) announces that construction of the Eco-Technology Research Center (ETRC) and the Kao Eco-Lab Museum was completed within the compound of Wakayama Plant (Wakayama City), and these facilities were opened today, June 8, 2011.
 

Within ETRC, a new organization named Eco-Innovation Research Laboratories has been established to begin eco-innovation research centering on development of functional materials.

Focal research themes include sophisticated use of such renewable raw materials as plant-derived biomass, development of non-edible oil plants, and development of fundamental technologies for water-saving products.

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