Hosokawa Micron Corporation provides powder and plastic processing equipment across Japan, the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Its offerings include powder processing equipment for grinding, classifying, blending, and drying; dust collection equipment for environmental protection and product recovery; and chemical hazard prevention equipment for worker protection in pharmaceutical development and manufacturing. The company also supplies machines for milling, mixing, particle design, agglomeration, feed and discharge, laboratory technology, bag filters, protection and production isolation, and engineering, along with after-sales, toll processing, analysis, and preventive maintenance services. Additionally, it is involved in contract research, development, manufacture, and sale of new materials, cosmetics, and hair growth products based on nanocomposite particle technology, and in the development, manufacture, sale, and system engineering of multi-layered performance films for food packaging, electronic equipment protection, and single-layer film manufacturing equipment. Its products serve the energy, IT, automobile, chemicals, minerals, pharmaceuticals, food, polymer drying/SSP, containment, and metal industries. Founded in 1916, the company is headquartered in Hirakata, Japan.