Biomass polypropylene by Mitsui Chemicals’ subsidiary Prime Polymer has been adopted for tableware designed by Kengo Kuma. Mitsui Chemicals has been expanding the use of derivatives (biomass chemicals and biomass plastics) made from biomass naphtha under the Beplayer brand. This time, in a joint project with hide kasuga 1896 that the company is also participating in, the environmentally conscious brand...
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Mitsui Chemicals to Reduce TDI Production Capacity at Omuta Plant
Chemical company Mitsui Chemicals will optimize the production capacity of its toluene diisocyanate (TDI) facility at its Omuta Plant by July 2025. TDI is a raw material for polyurethane that the company has been manufacturing as a basic product of the isocyanate chain at the Omuta Plant with a production capacity of 120,000 tons per year. Considering Japanese domestic and...
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Mitsubishi Chemical Group, Mitsui Chemicals Launch Study Into Joint Chemical Logistics
Mitsubishi Chemical and Mitsui Chemicals have launched a joint study with the aim of standardizing and optimizing chemical logistics, which serve as a backbone for both society and industry. Over time, the companies intend to launch various efforts in a number of relevant areas, with those that can be quickly put in place set to be implemented starting this fiscal...
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Mitsui Chemicals Opens Digital Science Lab
Mitsui Chemicals will open in its Sodegaura Center a new research building – named the Digital Science Lab – to accelerate R&D digital transformation (DX) based on digital science that integrates computational science, data science and high-performance computing. The investment will be approximately 5 billion yen ($35.35 million), with construction scheduled to begin in June 2023 and slated to be...
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Mitsui Chemicals Receives New ISCC PLUS Certifications
sMitsui Chemicals has recently acquired for new ISCC PLUS certifications, an international certification system for sustainable products. This is part of the company’s move to continue acquiring such certifications with the aim to expand social implementation of biomass products based on the mass balance method. Products for which ISCC PLUS certification will be newly available: Product: Ammonia, Product name: Ammonia, Main applications:...
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Mitsui Chemicals to Produce Chemical Recycled Polyethylene Derived from Waste Plastic
Mitsui Chemicals has concluded a basic purchase agreement with Shell Eastern Petroleum regarding the procurement of ethylene derived from waste plastics. Following this agreement, Prime Evolue Singapore, a subsidiary of Mitsui Chemicals group company Prime Polymer, will begin efforts to produce chemical-recycled polyethylene derived from waste plastics. Shell’s waste plastic-derived ethylene has obtained ISCC Plus Certification (International Sustainability and Carbon...
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