Kaneka Obtains Halal Certificate for KANEKA UBIQUINOL TM
Halal certification is a system in which relevant organizations verify that products or services do not contain ingredients prohibited under Shariah (Islamic law) and certify their compliance with Shariah. We actively pursue the acquisition of various certifications to ensure the safety and security of our raw materials, and we are pleased to announce that we have obtained a Halal Certificate for KANEKA UBIQUINOLTM.
Currently, the Muslim population worldwide is approximately 1.9 billion, and it is estimated to reach 2.2 billion by 2030. In Southeast Asian countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia, where Muslims coexist with people of other faiths, strict standards and regulations have been introduced to ensure the safety and transparency of raw materials used, and the importance of Halal certification is increasing. With the acquisition of this Halal certificate, we expect to expand sales, particularly in Southeast Asia.
Based on our mission of KANEKA thinks "Wellness First", we will continue to respond to various needs by providing high-quality products, services and value to make society healthier. Our goal is to enrich people's lives and make society more comfortable in a wide range of fields.
View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250708279133/en/
Contacts
KANEKA CORPORATIONPublic Relations DepartmentWakana Sawada Info_Pro@kaneka.co.jp
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Yahoo
21 minutes ago
- Yahoo
Trump's tariff changes leave Big Tech in limbo
The tech industry is once again on a knife's edge after President Trump signed an executive action on Monday delaying the implementation of his reciprocal tariffs on countries around the world until Aug. 1. The decision came just days before the prior July 9 deadline when many of Trump's original "Liberation Day" tariffs were to take hold. Trump also began sending out letters to select trading partners, including Japan and South Korea, which he said will face 25% levies if they don't reach agreements with the United States by Aug. 1. For the tech industry, the announcements mark a return to the uncertainty of April, which sent both the S&P 500 and Dow plummeting, as Trump seeks to remake the country's various trade relationships. 'It's been two steps forward, one step back,' explained Deepwater Asset Management managing partner Gene Munster. Read more: 5 ways to tariff-proof your finances 'We're still moving forward, but what it means for Big Tech is that it opens up this unknown about what happens now and in that … December quarter, because any changes probably won't really start to take effect until midway through the September quarter,' Munster added. What happens after the Aug. 1 deadline, though, is anyone's guess. For now, Trump says he won't extend the deadline, but he's also pushed it out twice already. If there's one bright side to the tariff changes, it's that they don't impact the ongoing trade negotiations between the US and China, which could have resulted in price hikes on tech products. According to the US International Trade Commission, Trump's tariffs on the country will largely remain suspended through Aug. 10. Then there are companies like Nvidia (NVDA) and Apple (AAPL), which have won a reprieve from the immediate threat of tariffs but face individual actions from the Trump administration. Nvidia is contending with a ban on the sale of its chips to China, while Apple is staring down an additional 25% tariff if it doesn't begin building its devices in the US instead of relying on manufacturing in other countries, including China and India. And every tech company is waiting on tenterhooks for the administration to announce its tariffs on semiconductor imports. It all adds up to a confusing summer for Big Tech. Among the biggest challenges for Big Tech is the inability to plan how to address the impact of tariffs in the coming months. What's more, with the US pushing for countries to exclude China from their supply chains, there's no guarantee the current cooling in the trade war between the two superpowers won't go hot again. 'I think the uncertainty, in some ways, is arguably even worse than the tariffs, certainly in the near term, because when you don't know what's going to happen, and there's a threat of relatively high numbers, then people … are going to be more cautious and wait to see what happens,' TECHnalysis Research president and chief analyst Bob O'Donnell told Yahoo Finance. 'And so the question will be, does it just go away again? Is it more TACO tariffs or not?' he added, referring to the acronym for 'Trump Always Chickens Out,' a line of thinking on Wall Street that says Trump's tariff threats are more bluster than actual economic policy. While Apple and Nvidia often come up in tariff discussions, they're far from the only tech companies that could take a hit with the latest round of levy threats. Dell (DELL), for instance, manufactures some of its PCs in Malaysia, which is facing a 25% tariff, and Samsung, which is set to launch its latest smartphones, could get hit with a 25% tariff on devices it ships to the US from its home country of South Korea. Semiconductor companies also face the prospect of tariffs related to the Commerce Department's ongoing Section 232 investigation into the national security implications of producing chips abroad. That puts chip manufacturers in a difficult position as, despite recent announcements that companies like TSMC (TSM) and Samsung are building plants in the US, the majority of semiconductors are still fabricated in Asia. According to Bernstein senior analyst Stacy Rasgon, even if the Section 232 investigation doesn't result in new chip tariffs, semiconductor manufacturers could still be hurt if tariffs on other tech goods push prices higher and force consumers to cut back on spending. Read more: What Trump's tariffs mean for the economy and your wallet Tech companies aren't the only ones left in the lurch amid the latest tariff uncertainty. Levies cloud corporate executives' vision as to the timing of large purchase orders. 'The example we like to use is you're about to do a major Windows 11 refresh on a fleet of a few 1000 laptops,' Forrester vice president and research director Mark Moccia explained. 'Now, all of a sudden, you get tariffs on the entire machine itself, or parts of the machine that are assembled. Now that means you're going to be paying a lot more potentially for that laptop replacement fleet.' Moccia added. Consumers and corporations are also left wondering what tariffs mean for their wallets. Fears that the levies will send prices of everything from smartphones and PCs to monitors and other accessories have already impacted sales and could hurt them in the second half of 2025. 'In the near term, probably the biggest dynamic we have seen is pull-in activity, not only on products, but also [on] chips,' explained KeyBanc Capital Markets analyst John Vinh. Pull-in, or pull forward, refers to sales of products that customers purchase before they might otherwise choose to in an effort to get ahead of price hikes. 'The three areas where we've seen the most amount of pull-in activities have been in PCs, smartphones, and in data centers. And since it's a pull-forward demand, it doesn't create any new demand,' Vinh explained. 'We've seen the overall supply chain, and the outlook for the second half, and even full-year, to some extent, down ticked a little bit.' Now, countries, industries, and companies have to wait to see how Trump's tariff plan plays out. Email Daniel Howley at dhowley@ Follow him on X/Twitter at @DanielHowley. Sign in to access your portfolio
Yahoo
24 minutes ago
- Yahoo
Semler Scientific Gets Buy Rating From Benchmark, $101 Price Target on Bitcoin Treasury Pivot
Benchmark's Mark Palmer initiated coverage of Semler Scientific (SMLR) with a buy rating and a $101 price target, citing the company's dramatic pivot from medical diagnostics to bitcoin (BTC) accumulation as a key value driver. Semler, which spent over 15 years focused on chronic disease detection, adopted bitcoin as its primary treasury reserve asset in May last year. The move made it only the second U.S.-listed firm, after Michael Saylor's Strategy (MSTR), to adopt bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset. Since then, the company has acquired roughly 4,636 BTC for $430 million, with an average cost basis of $92,753 per bitcoin, the report said. Palmer noted that the stock rallied 178% in the six and a half months following its Bitcoin Standard announcement, peaking at $81.56 in December 2024. However, the analyst argued that Semler still trades at a steep discount compared to bitcoin treasury peers. Its multiple of net asset value (mNAV) sits at 1.25, compared to 4.29 for Japan-based Metaplanet (3350) and 6.45 for France's Blockchain Group (ALTBG), the analyst noted. Benchmark believes this gap could close. Management recently appointed Joe Burnett as Director of Bitcoin Strategy and outlined bold BTC accumulation targets: 10,000 BTC by end of 2025, 42,000 by end of 2026, and 105,000 by end of 2027. The report notes that resolving legal and regulatory headwinds from Semler's legacy healthcare business, including a Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation and Medicare reimbursement uncertainties, could help lift its valuation further. Benchmark's $101 price target is based on a sum-of-the-parts valuation that assumes bitcoin will hit $225,000 by year-end 2026.
Yahoo
an hour ago
- Yahoo
Murdoch Paper Skewers ‘Tariff Man' Trump's New Flip-Flop
The Wall Street Journal's Editorial Board has skewered 'Tariff Man' Donald Trump's latest economic flip-flop. Leading with the mocking title 'Tariff Man' Is Back for More 'Liberation,' the Rupert Murdoch-owned publication went all in on the president's decision to announce new 25 percent levies on trade partners South Korea and Japan, to add to existing duties on certain imports from those countries. This comes after Trump walked back on his original 'Liberation Day' tariffs from early April after they caused economic turmoil. He paused the super-charged levies to give his administration the chance to complete 90 deals in 90 days, a period that expires this week. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has only managed to strike a deal with the U.K. and Vietnam, with a broad framework for a deal agreed with China, too. With that lack of success in mind, Trump sent letters to the leaders of more than a dozen nations on Monday, imposing an Aug. 1 deadline for renewed deals. If deals aren't struck, there could be tariff hell to pay, he suggested. The WSJ said that, in the letters, he 'huffs and puffs again about bilateral trade deficits, which he mistakenly thinks are a sign of foreign exploitation.' Japan is America's fifth biggest supplier of imports, while South Korea is also in the top 10. Trump has said that if either of the countries respond with tariffs of their own, he'll hit back even harder. 'Whatever the number you choose to raise them by, will be added onto the 25 percent that we charge,' he said. Trump appears to be going for the scorched-earth strategy once again, even though it didn't work the first time. 'What a way to treat two close American allies and fellow democracies in China's backyard,' the WSJ reacted. But why does he do it? Because negotiations through strength, or bullish threats, is all he knows, the publication adds. 'He's imposing tariffs because he likes them as an economic policy. The U.S. average effective tariff rate when Mr. Trump took office was 2.4%, according to the Yale Budget Lab. As of last month Mr. Trump had cranked that up to 15.6%. How much higher does he want to go?' the board writes. And the effect could be disastrous, it adds, saying that some 'trade might grind to a halt' as a result of the tariffs. Specialized sectors that source machinery and software from these countries can't readily find replacements, it says. This could cause chaos in those industries. More generally, given the volume of trade, the economic backlash could be vast, WSJ adds. Some 8.6 percent of all imports in the U.S. came from Japan and South Korea last year. The board added that the taxes would also limit the productive economy in the U.S. 'Mr. Trump's tariffs on present course would take $300 billion in border taxes from the productive economy this year, and he seems bent on going higher. That's an anti-growth tax increase, and an arbitrary one besides,' it said.
