EIKEN TO LAUNCH NEW SUBSIDIARY AND FACTORY IN CHINA

Eiken Chemical Co., Ltd. have launched a new subsidiary, Eiken Shanghai Co., Ltd. in China. The completion ceremony of the site was held on August 7. Facilities will be equipped in September and operation will begin in 2007. The plant will repackage urine test papers for shipment to Japan and manufacture drugs for stool testing for occult blood for the U.S. market. JCN Network (http://www.japancorp.net/Article.Asp?Art_ID=13027)