Kuraray Noritake.

Kuraray Co., Ltd. announced that Kuraray Noritake Dental Inc. began operating on 1 April 2012 after Kuraray Medical Inc., Noritake Dental Supply Co., Limited, and a holding company were integrated. The release lists the head office at 1-1-3 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, representative Sadaaki Matsuyama, paid-in capital of 300 million yen, and an investment split of 66.7 percent Kuraray and 33.3 percent Noritake. Employees at launch were given as 386.

The same release traces Kuraray's dental materials to January 1978, when CLEARFIL BOND SYSTEM F was introduced, and Noritake's dental plaster sales to 1939, with SUPER PORCELAIN AAA following in 1987. A Kuraray Noritake technology page says the company developed the phosphate monomer Phenyl-P in 1978 and later 10-Methacryloyloxydecyl dihydrogen phosphate, known as MDP. It says cement products after PANAVIA EX in 1983 and bond products after CLEARFIL NEW BOND in 1984 contain MDP.

The European about page dates the parent Kuraray company to 1926 in Kurashiki and says the MDP monomer was introduced in 1981, which is the monomer milestone rather than the 1978 Phenyl-P date. It dates Noritake Co., Limited to 1904 in Nagoya and says the 2012 merger joined polymer chemistry with ceramic chemistry. Product families named there include CLEARFIL, PANAVIA, and KATANA.

CLEARFIL SE BOND and PANAVIA are described on that European page as reference products in the adhesive and cement categories. KATANA is the zirconia name in the same family list. A buyer should not treat a CLEARFIL bottle, a PANAVIA syringe, and a KATANA disc as one clinical system. Each has its own instructions. The merger release lists the launch businesses as bonding agents, fillings, facing resin, ceramics for crowns, dental plaster, and CAD/CAM devices. A plaster or investment from the Noritake side is a lab powder, not a CLEARFIL bottle, even though both carried into the 2012 company.

The company suits clinics and labs that want the CLEARFIL and PANAVIA adhesive chemistry and Noritake or KATANA ceramics from the same corporate group. Adhesives are compared on the dental adhesive guide.

Resin cements and core composites are neighboring shelves. See the resin cement guide and the core composite guide.

MDP is an adhesive monomer, not a finished product you can order by that chemical name alone. It is an ingredient Kuraray says is inside PANAVIA and CLEARFIL products launched after the early 1980s. The bottle name still decides the technique.

Flowable composites in the CLEARFIL range, when you buy them, belong with the flowable composite guide. A zirconia disc does not. Keep indirect ceramic orders on the lab ticket.

Packaging from before April 2012 may say Kuraray Medical or Noritake Dental Supply. The merger release says the new company combined those businesses. Reorder by the current REF from Kuraray Noritake, not by a photographed old box.

The Tokyo head-office address in the 2012 release is a corporate address from that announcement. Regional sellers in Europe and the United States handle local stock. Ask which legal entity is on your invoice.