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Sunstar
Sunstar, Inc.. is a Swiss-based multinational group of companies with origin in Japan that manufactures health-care and beauty-care products, non-polluting construction materials, motorcycle parts, and adhesives for the automotive and electronics industries. It is the world’s seventh-largest maker of oral hygiene products. The name ‘Sunstar’ refers to morning and evening (the times when people tend to brush their teeth).

Sunstar chose Switzerland because of its welcoming attitude towards multinational corporations, its political stability, security, highly skilled population and financial services.

Sunstar owns the Sareine brand of natural-ingredient cosmetics, and developed Periocliee, a treatment for chronic periodontal disease, in collaboration with the State University of New York at Buffalo.In 2008, Sunstar collaborated with the Joslin Diabetes Center to establish the Joslin-Sunstar Diabetes Education Initiative (JSDEI) for the purpose of educating both doctors and dentists about the relationship between diabetes and periodontal disease. So far, fourteen JSDEI seminars have been held, in Japan, the United States and Switzerland. The last seminar was held in Milan, Italy in September, 2013. JSDEI Milan

History
Sunstar Group began as Kaneda Brothers & Co. (Kaneda Keitei Shokai), which was founded in Japan in 1932 by Kunio Kaneda as a company specializing in bicycle parts. In 1933, Kaneda began manufacturing rubber glue for repairing bicycle tires, which was sold in metal tubes. In 1941, he founded the Imperial Rubber Company with a loan of $1000 U.S.D from an aunt in Los Angeles. In 1946, the company started producing toothpaste as a way to use the metal tube technology of their rubber glue product line. In 1948 an alliance was formed with Shionogi & Co., the pharmaceutical leader of post-war Japan, in order to distribute the toothpaste. Kyokuto Kakou Co., Ltd. was a company created to manufacture artificial leather. In 1950, these companies merged to form Sunstar, Inc., and in the 1960s, it added a division for the production of motorcycle parts.

Joint ventures with U.S. hair-care products manufacturer Alberto Culver, as well as with American Essex Specialties, a chemical company, formed Sunstar Essex Chemical in 1967. During the 1970s, when Sunstar created the Sareine brand, it also entered into joint ventures with companies in the U.S. and France. In the 1980s Sunstar began off-shore manufacturing of motorcycle parts, adhesives and sealants in the U.S. and Thailand. In 1988, Sunstar acquired the oral-care specialist, John O. Butler Co. of Chicago.

In the 1990s, Sunstar established Sunstar Engineering Pte. Ltd. in Singapore as a regional Southeast-Asian production control base. The company obtained ISO 14001 certification in its four Japanese production facilities. In 2000, Sunstar established sales operations in Western Europe, Mexico and Argentina; it moved its international headquarters to Switzerland in 2006. In 2011, Sunstar acquired Interbros and Degradable Solutions AG. Their second headquarters for the Engineering business is located in Singapore. The Sunstar line of products and services is currently sold in more than ninety countries.