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Daikin Industries Daikin Industries, Ltd. (ダイキン工業株式会社 Daikin Kōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha?) (TYO: 6367, OSE: 6367) is a Japan-based multinational corporation present in Japan, China, Australia, India, Southeast Asia, Europe, and North America. The company was founded in 1924 by Akira Yamada in Osaka, Japan. Daikin has centrally been a chemical corporation, where its focus has been on air conditioning systems. It has since diversified its manufacturing division to take advantage of experience in fluorine chemistry. According to Salvatore Re, Daikin's business development manager in Europe, "Fluorochem has a lot to offer this [the fiber-optics] industry. Long term, we aim to develop other materials, such as optical polymers for fibers and components."[1] Today, Daikin has eight separate industrial and management divisions focusing on the corresponding fields of: Air Conditioning Chemicals Transportation & Refrigeration Systems Semiconductors Hydraulic fluids Electronics Defence After Sales Service (Wikipedia.com)