However, data can reflect facts. According to the list of "100 Most Innovative Enterprises" published by international authorities in 2020, there are 32 Japanese enterprises on the list, ranking second in the world, while there are only three in China, ranking seventh in the world. In addition, Japan's core technology patents account for more than 80% of the world, and R&D expenditure ranks first in the world for many years. Therefore, Japanese companies are not just Sony, Panasonic and Toyota. That is, we are familiar with, and there are also many "invisible kings" who are low-key enough and powerful enough. Perhaps they are the key to Japan's economic development and transformation.
Japan Ajisen is such a representative company. Japanese flavor element was founded in 1909, which was originally refined monosodium glutamate. Later, this company became the overlord of the global amino acid market. Today, Ajisen has developed its own business in nearly 40 countries around the world, with an annual income of more than 60 billion, becoming a veritable food giant.
However, just when everyone thought that Ajisen was just a company that achieved perfection in the food field, just like Laoganma and Haitian Soy Sauce, another identity of Ajisen gradually surfaced-a company that all major chip manufacturing companies in the world could not do without, and solved the problem of chip manufacturing.
1970, an employee named Yukio takeuchi found a by-product in the process of producing monosodium glutamate, which can be used to make high insulation resin synthetic materials. With the support of the company and the efforts of the team, Takeuchi successfully made this product into a film with high insulation and good heat resistance. It can also undertake various circuit combinations at will and is convenient to install. This is the flavor accumulation film (ABF) used by chip manufacturers all over the world, and almost all computers in the world have it.
However, the initial development of Ajisen Film was not smooth. After the successful research and development, the team in Takeuchi faces the risk of dissolution because it can't find a market for a while. On one occasion, when Takeuchi took his own products to cooperate with a famous Japanese electronics manufacturer, he was even ridiculed: "If you go to the canteen, you should go upstairs in that direction. Have you passed that place? "
But at 1999, with the persistence of the team and the company, things finally turned around. A leading semiconductor company tried Ajisen's products. Since then, Ajisen stacked film has quickly swept the major chip manufacturers and become the standard of the entire semiconductor chip industry. Without the accumulation of flavor, Apple, Samsung, Xiaomi and Huawei could not make such a good mobile phone computer, let alone develop to this stage.
Now Ajisen has reduced the cost of laminating to a minimum, and the manufacturing technology is unparalleled in the world. Therefore, the accumulation film of flavor elements has almost become an unrepeatable existence in the world, which also explains why it can be stuck in the neck of global chips.
Starting from a monosodium glutamate factory, it became the world's top food company, and then became an unrepeatable existence in the chip industry. Low-key, innovative and persistent flavor elements also reflect the real strength of Japan.