Kuraray vs Linde

Side by side, from the public record each company was imported from. Where a figure is missing it is because no source we hold states it — not because it is zero.

Linde is the older of the two, founded in 1879 — 47 years before Kuraray.

Founded: 1926; 1879
Status: Active; Active
Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan; Angerhof, Germany
Industry: chemical industry; chemical industry
Founders: Magosaburō Ōhara; Carl von Linde
Employees: Not recorded; 63,487
Legal form: kabushiki gaisha; Aktiengesellschaft
Parent: Not recorded; Linde Group
Website: kuraray.com/global-en; linde.com

Facts on both companies come from the public records named on Kuraray and Linde.