Corporate Information

About USCorporate Introduction

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.

MembersMembers

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.

OutlineCorporate Overview

　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

HistoryCorporate History

Drag
2023

March 13　

Establishment of AQAS Corporation
2020

　

A dedicated capillary column for raw drugs has been completed, along with a novel method for the precise analysis of botanical components using this customized column.
2018

　

Hibino, Kobayashi, Wada, and others are participating in the AMED project, which is focused on ‘Quantifying traditional farming techniques and developing efficient production methods based on the quality assessment of medicinal carrots using novel approaches.’ They have initiated a collaborative effort to develop an HPLC capillary column specifically for raw drugs, given the need to analyze the constituents of medicinal carrots.