Sanyo Trading Co., Ltd., through its subsidiaries, engages in the rubber, chemicals, machinery and environmental, industrial products, and scientific instruments businesses in Japan and internationally. The company provides various rubbers, such as butyl rubbers, as well as nitrile butadiene rubbers (NBR) and hydrogenated NBR for industrial rubber goods; and specialty and general purpose rubbers, including polyisoprene, isoprene rubbers, EPDM, polychloroprene rubbers, epichlorohydrin rubbers, silicone rubbers, and fluoroelastomers. It is also involved in the import, export, and tripartite trade of chemicals, such as resins, additives, and other products for marketing to domestic manufacturers of paint, ink, floor polish, textiles, paper, adhesives, and leather. In addition, the company sells pelletizers; equipment for mixing and blending, drying and cooling, sifting, and particle size reduction for the manufacturers of woody biomass, feeds for livestock animals, and aquatic species; and wood gasifiers, which uses pellets as fuel source. Further, it develops and imports automotive parts and components; and imports and markets various analytical instruments and testing equipment to government institutes, universities, and research and quality control divisions of various industries, including chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, food, machinery, automobile, and energy. Sanyo Trading Co., Ltd. was incorporated in 1947 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.