We were tasked with the AMED project titled ‘Development of an Efficient Production Method for Medicinal Carrots by Quantifying Traditional Cultivation Methods Based on Quality Evaluation Using a New Method’. Our responsibility was to enhance the methods for analyzing the components of medicinal ginsengs. Based on the outcomes of this project, we established Aqas Corporation on March 13, 2023.Our products will enable the visualization of a broad spectrum of components found in plants, thereby contributing to the emergence of new businesses in the realm of untapped resource utilization.
Representative director
Kenichi HIBINO
Master of Engineering, Kyoto University; Master of Science, University of Detroit; Doctor of Engineering, Kyoto Institute of Technology
After retirement from Sanyo Chemical Industries, Ltd., he was a researcher at Kyoto University iCeMS and the Secretary General of Kyoto Commons, a non-profit organization.
Representative director
Hiroaki ASAOKA
Bachelor of Engineering, Kyoto Institute of Technology (1987)
Business background: Worked for over 30 years in overseas companies including Pharmacia, Molecular Dynamics, Biacore, Clontech, Illumina, Sequenom (Representative Director), Roche Diagnostics (Sales Manager), and PacBio Japan LLC (Sales Manager).
Director
Keisuke MAKINO
Master of Engineering, Kyoto University (1970); Ph.D. in Science, Kyoto University (1980).
Business career: Kanebo, Ltd.; National Institutes of Health, U.S.A.; Kyoto Institute of Technology; Institute of Energy Science and Engineering, Kyoto University.
He has served as Director of the Industry-Academia Collaboration Division of Kyoto University, Deputy Director of the Advanced Technology Research Institute of Kyoto and Director of the Kyoto City Growth Industry Creation Center, and Director of Kansai TLO, and had been President of the NPO Kyoto Commons since 2013.
Director
Hiroshi KOBAYASHI
Master of Engineering, Kyoto Institute of Technology.
Engaged in column development at Shinwa Chemical Industries Ltd.
In addition to product development at the company, he is a leader of joint research and development through industry-academia collaboration.
Director
Tomonori WADA
Bachelor of Engineering, Doshisha University
Shinwa Chemical Industries Ltd., a manufacturer and developer of columns for liquid chromatography.
Corporate name
AQAS Corporation
Date of Establishment
March 13, 2023
Capital
￥59,500,000 （As of February, 2024）
Representative
Kenichi HIBINO
Representative
Hiroaki ASAOKA
Director
Keisuke MAKINO
Director
Hiroshi KOBAYASHI
Director
Tomonori WADA
Outside Director
Satoshi YAMAGUCHI
Auditor
Takashi SANO
Head Office & Laboratories
#201 ACT Kyoto, 105 Jibu-cho, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto-City, Kyoto, JAPAN
Approximately 15 minutes from Kyoto Station by car
Daini-Keihan Road (former Hanshin Expressway Kyoto Line)
From Jonangu North/South Ramp in the south direction on Abura-no Koji Dori and turn left on Tanbabashi Dori.
Approximately 17 minutes on foot from Keihan Tanbabashi Station or Kintetsu Tanbabashi Station.
Rakunan Express: Approximately 17 minutes from Kyoto Station Hachijo Exit
Get off at Kyoto Pulse Plaza/Kyocera-mae (last stop),12 minutes (950m) on foot to the south.City Bus/City Bus/Keihan Bus: 8 minutes from Takeda Station West Exit
Get off at Abura-no Koji Tanbabashi/Act Kyoto-mae bus stop.
Kyoto Municipal Subway: Approximately 6 minutes from Takeda Station West Exit
Approximately 6 minutes from Chushojima Station on the Keihan Electric Railway Line
Approximately 15 minutes from Hachijo Exit of JR Kyoto Station