{"id":2236,"date":"2018-12-15T05:08:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T20:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spera.rdy.jp\/?page_id=2236"},"modified":"2026-04-10T19:22:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T10:22:39","slug":"outline","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.spera-nexus.co.jp\/en\/company\/outline\/","title":{"rendered":"Company Outline"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Company Name<\/th>\nSPERA NEXUS, Inc.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Company Address<\/th>\n8-2, Nihonbashi Honcho 4-Chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-0023, Japan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Foundation<\/th>\nJuly, 2020
\n* Established as a preparation company and started business in June, 2021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Capital<\/th>\n310 Million Yen<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Number of Employees<\/th>\n214 (as of November 30th, 2025) \u203bIncluding temporary employees, etc.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Business<\/th>\nManufacturing and selling of pharmaceutical raw materials and chemical products<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Main Banks<\/th>\nMizuho Bank, Ltd., MUFG Bank, Ltd., Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation. etc.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Group companies<\/th>\nAstena Holdings Co., Ltd., SPERA PHARMA, Inc., IWAKI SEIYAKU CO., LTD.,JITSUBO CO,LTD.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Executives<\/th>\n\n
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President & CEO<\/dt>\n
Keitaro Iwaki<\/dd>\n
Director<\/dt>\n
Naoki Enomoto<\/dd>\n
Director<\/dt>\n
Hirotoshi Naruse<\/dd>\n
Audit & Supervisory Board Member<\/dt>\n
Toshimitsu Isobe<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

History<\/h3>\n
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<\/th>\n<\/th>\nIWAKI & CO., LTD.<\/th>\n<\/th>\nIWAKI SEIYAKU CO., LTD.<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
1914<\/td>\n<\/td>\nFounded as a pharmaceutical wholesaler, “Iwaki Ichitaro Shoten” at Hongoku-cho 4-chome
\nStarted with wholesale supply for pharmacies, as well as wholesale supply of pharmaceutical materials around this time<\/td>\n		<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1923<\/td>\n<\/td>\nThe entire store burnt down during the Great Kanto Earthquake<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1931<\/td>\n<\/td>\nA new three-story wooden-mortar store building was built<\/td>\n<\/td>\nEstablished Iwaki Seiyakujo (later IWAKI SEIYAKU Co., Ltd.) as a limited partnership company
\nStarted the production of drugs and pharmaceutical materials<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1933<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\nEstablished Kamata Plant<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1941<\/td>\n<\/td>\nIncorporated as “Iwaki Shoten Co., Ltd.”<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1945<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1948<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\nReorganized the company into Iwaki Seiyaku Co., Ltd.
\nCapital: 1 million yen
\nPresident: Ichitaro Iwaki<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1950<\/td>\n<\/td>\nStarted handling imported pharmaceutical materials<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1960<\/td>\n<\/td>\nA five-story building was completed<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1962<\/td>\n<\/td>\nKentaro Iwaki was appointed as President<\/td>\n<\/td>\nKentaro Iwaki was appointed as President<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1963<\/td>\n<\/td>\nThe company name was changed to “IWAKI & CO., LTD.”
\nListed on the second section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange<\/td>\n		<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1971<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\nEstablished Shizuoka Plant in Daito-cho, Ogasa-gun, Shizuoka<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1977<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\nCompleted a wastewater treatment facility at the Shizuoka Plant (using activated sludge)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1981<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\nCelebrated the 50th anniversary of its foundation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1987<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\nCompleted the K.I. Memorial Building at the Shizuoka Plant<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1989<\/td>\n<\/td>\nThe head office building of IWAKI & CO., LTD. was completed<\/td>\n<\/td>\nRegistered DMF with US FDA
\nAcquired approx. 60,000 m2 of land adjacent to Shizuoka Plant in the second expansion project
\nCompleted the F7 factory at Shizuoka Plant<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1990<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\nCertified as compliant with FDA inspection<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1994<\/td>\n<\/td>\nKentaro Iwaki was appointed as Chairman, and Osamu Iwaki as President<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1998<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\nCompleted the GMP-compliant factory (F8) for APIs at Shizuoka Plant<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2005<\/td>\n<\/td>\nIncluded into the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange<\/td>\n<\/td>\nCompleted a GMP-compliant small-lot production building at Shizuoka Plant<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2007<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\nExpanded the F8 factory at Shizuoka Plant<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2011<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2013<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\nExpanded production lines in the F5 manufacturing building at Shizuoka Plant<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2014<\/td>\n<\/td>\nCelebrated the 100th anniversary of its foundation<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>\n<\/td>\nOsamu Iwaki was appointed as Chairman, and Keitaro Iwaki as President<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019<\/td>\n<\/td>\n“North Cube,” the laboratory building for highly active APIs, was completed and started operation<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2020<\/td>\n<\/td>\nSPERA PHARMA Inc. joined the group<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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*Our company name consists of “Spera,” signifying “hope,” and “Nexus,” referring to “chain\/bond.”<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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2021<\/td>\n<\/td>\nThe group transferred to a holding company structure, and SPERA NEXUS, Inc. started operation of business split from the former IWAKI & CO., LTD. and IWAKI SEIYAKU CO., LTD.
\n(It was registered as a preparation company in July 2020.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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<\/td>\n<\/td>\n* The history of IWAKI & CO., LTD. and IWAKI SEIYAKU CO., LTD. mainly describes the business that was transferred to SPERA NEXUS, Inc.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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