JGC Holdings Corporation is the listed parent of the JGC Group, a Japanese engineering organisation based at 2-3-1 Minato Mirai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama. The group traces its origins to Japan Gasoline Co., Ltd., founded on 25 October 1928, and has operated under its current name and a holding company structure since 1 October 2019, when JGC Corporation reorganised.
Holding company profile
JGC Holdings reported capital of JPY 23,994.50 million and 8,154 consolidated employees as of 31 March 2026. Masayuki Sato is representative director, chairman, president and chief executive officer. Besides the Yokohama head office, the group runs a research and development centre at Oarai-machi in Ibaraki Prefecture. It has held ISO 14001 accreditation since 2003. The group describes its operations through two segments: engineering, procurement and construction, and functional materials manufacturing, delivered by five main operating companies - JGC for overseas EPC, JGC Japan for domestic EPC and plant maintenance, JGC Catalysts and Chemicals, Japan Fine Ceramics and Japan NUS, which provides energy and environmental consulting.
Engineering track record
The group counts more than 48 LNG trains built, a share it puts above 30 per cent of world liquefaction capacity, alongside 47 overseas refinery EPC projects and 42 ethylene plant projects. It also states that it has worked on three of the four floating LNG projects under way worldwide for open-sea conditions. Recent LNG work includes the LNG Canada project, where JGC announced the first export cargo in July 2025 and handover of the second production train in December 2025, and where a Fluor-JGC team is carrying out front-end engineering for the proposed Phase 2 expansion after receiving a limited notice to proceed in June 2026. In June 2026 a JGC joint venture was awarded the EPCIC contract for the Coral North development in Mozambique, and in March 2026 a JGC-Hyundai joint venture was named as prospective EPC contractor for a low-carbon LNG plant in Papua New Guinea. Earlier awards include the Ruwais LNG project for ADNOC with Technip Energies and NMDC Energy, the Tangguh UCC onshore EPCI contract in Indonesia in November 2024, a FEED contract from INPEX Masela in August 2025, and additional technology transfer work on the Basra refinery upgrading project in Iraq in February 2025.
Decarbonisation and new energy programmes
Green ammonia production began at the group's demonstration site in Namie, Fukushima, in January 2026. Other transition activities recorded in the newsroom include a memorandum with SLB on carbon capture technology in October 2025, a collaboration agreement with Energy Dome on CO2 battery technology for the Japanese market the same month, front-end engineering for green hydrogen and methylcyclohexane production in Malaysia, ammonia cracking development using a catalyst supplied by Amogy in April 2025, and a memorandum with Metso on lithium refining in November 2025. In methane and emissions management the group is a partner in SEA METEC, described as Southeast Asia's first methane emissions technology evaluation centre, announced in September 2026, and joined a publicly solicited project in August 2026 to verify satellite-based identification of greenhouse gas emission sources. Its sustainable aviation fuel work includes a letter of intent with the African Development Bank in September 2025 and participation in Japanese supply chains that culminated in the first passenger flight from Kansai International Airport using domestically produced SAF in May 2025.
Beyond hydrocarbons
JGC's portfolio has widened into life sciences, infrastructure and advanced manufacturing. JGC Japan designed and built the FJ3 facility for Chugai Pharma Manufacturing, which received an honourable mention in the 2026 Facility of the Year Awards from the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering, and completed a next-generation active pharmaceutical ingredient plant in January 2025. The group opened a biomanufacturing research centre using gas fermentation at Port Island in Kobe in July 2024, works with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency on concepts for a lunar plant that would use local resources, and invests through a corporate venture fund in companies including the transformer developer IONATE and the battery-recycling firm tozero. In March 2025 its consolidated subsidiary acquired shares in TAKADA Corporation, and in March 2026 JGC Catalysts and Chemicals expanded its Kitakyushu site.
Strategy and group direction
In May 2026 the group issued a revised edition of its long-term 2040 Vision together with a new medium-term business plan, BSP2030, presented at a briefing on 27 May 2026. Its stated aims are to move beyond oil and gas into infrastructure, plant operations and maintenance services and business investment, and to grow the share of profit from non-hydrocarbon energy and industrial and social infrastructure. JGC Catalysts and Chemicals holds the leading position in fluid catalytic cracking catalysts in Japan, where it says it is the only domestic manufacturer, and also leads the Japanese market for silica sol used in hard disk polishing. The group was selected as a constituent of the FTSE Blossom Japan Sector Relative Index in February 2025.
Investor information and contact
JGC Holdings publishes quarterly and full-year results summaries, integrated reports, presentation material and webcasts, and gave a first-quarter FY2026 update on 7 August 2026. Its shares are listed in Japan and the investor relations section covers stock and bond information, dividend policy and analyst coverage. General enquiries, career questions and investor relations requests are routed through separate web forms on the contact page, and no general e-mail address is published on the site. The head office switchboard is +81-45-682-1111.