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Coenzyme Q10 was first isolated by Dr. Frederick L. Crane at the University of Wisconsin in 1957. A year later, in 1958, University of Texas professor Dr. Karl Folkers determined the precise structure of CoQ10. The first clinical research on CoQ10 began appearing in medical journals in the late 1960s.
In 1977, Kanegafuchi Chemical Industry Company (Kaneka
Corporation) began producing yeast-fermented CoQ10.
In 1978, Dr. Peter Mitchell of Glynn Research Laboratories, Bodmin, Cornwall, UK, received a Nobel Prize for his research on important new aspects of CoQ10 in mitochondrial energy transduction and his chemiosmotic hypothesis. Less than a decade later, in 1986, Dr. Folkers was awarded the Priestly Medal from the American Chemical Society for his work with CoQ10.
In 1997, the International Coenzyme Q10 Association was founded by renowned international scientists, nutritionists and doctors. Kaneka Corporation was among the founding members.
In 2006, due to rapid growth in consumer consumption of CoQ10 in the U.S., Kaneka Corporation built the first CoQ10 manufacturing plant in the U.S.
Today, with plants in Takasago, Japan and Pasadena, Texas, Kaneka Corporation is the world’s largest manufacturer of CoQ10.
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