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GlaxoSmithKline K. K. - Imaichi Plant

Company Name GlaxoSmithKline K.K. - Imaichi Plant
Address 〒321-1274
1506 Dosawa, Nikko City, Tochigi Prefecture
TEL 0288-32-1111
Website http://www.gsk.com/
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"Do more, Feel better, Live longer" as the corporate mission, GlaxoSmithKline Co.,Ltd. is dedicated to improving the quality of human life by providing both mentally and physically healthy longer life. In this issue, we visited Imaichi plant in Nikko, and interviewed with Masayuki Asano General manager of Production division ,and Katsuyoshi Fukuyama, Group Manager of Department of Human Resources and General Administration.

Business@Basics

In December 2000, GlaxoSmithKlaine was formed by the merger of two companies, Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKlaine Beecham, both has more than 100 years of history. Headquartered in UK, we are a science-led global healthcare company who performs research and development, manufacturing, and marketing of a broad range of innovative medicines, vaccines and healthcare products. @


In Nikko plant, not only production but also quality control and packaging for imported or out-sourced products are performed. In addition, we have also established a website for an enlightenment of diseases, such as cervical cancer or asthma. Head office is responsible for the promotional activities of the site.

Tochigi Prefecture and its Business Environment

The plant site was selected by the consideration of every factor such as road networks for logistics, employment securing, natural disasters such as earthquakes, good quality and abundant water and so on. We realized that we have a good quality of water. Of course we do not use water as it is, but we feel the merits of clean water, especially because if water is heavily polluted, we must have additional facilities in double or triple for safety.
For logistics, since principally all our products are stored once in the distribution center located inside the factory, recent improvement of transportation infrastructure such as the completion of the Kitakanto expressway is advantageous for us. @

Made in Tochigi

In our company, research and development, manufacturing, and logistics functions are completely separated.@Imaichi plant is a manufacturing function.
Almost 100% of our medical products sold in Japan, except out-sourced products, are manufactured in this Imaichi plant.
All finished products, including imported or out-sourced products, are strictly quality controlled, the quality system allow only qualified products are delivered to the market.
Packaging of imported tablets and sampling inspections are also performed. Having a clean working environment with facilities of cutting-edge technologies, and strict quality control by skilled staffs, a systematic manufacturing process is realized.

Because Imaichi plant is the only one plant in Japan for GlaxoSmithKline, except out-sourced production‚“, we would like to promote that we are continuously operating in Tochigi.

Contributing Local Community

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We have 100% sponsorship of the "Soft tennis competition" for 37 years for elementary and junior high school students in Nikko.
We also accept occasionally a request of internship from junior high school students in Nikko area. @
Also an unique holiday of "Orange day", which derived from a corporate color of "Orange", is provided to all employees for their local volunteer activities of Tree plantation in the former Ashio copper mine or Cleaning of Nikko-Suginamiki.

For Nikko-Suginamiki, we are supporting it by having an ownership too. @
In addition, our women's hockey club had dispatched several players for the Japanese National Team for the Olympic games in Athens and Beijing. The hockey ground in our plant is open to public in week-days (reservation required).
Donations of used experimental devices to local junior high schools and municipal educational committee are irregularly made. There was a student awarded by a newspaper company for an excellence of his or her science study made by using donated equipment from us.

Comments for the People in Tochigi

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In addition to pharmaceutical products, it is our major policy in aiming to prevent illness before getting affected by diseases by applying a vaccine further, not only taking medicine after becoming ill.
Those Information can be obtained on our website, please visit, it may help you.

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