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Mitsui Chemicals Succeeds in Development of EBT Latex

on August 5, 2024 in Innovation

Mitsui Chemicals and Sumitomo Seika have successfully developed the world’s first EBT latex based on Mitsui Chemicals’ EPT (ethylene-propylene rubber) and EBT (ethylene butene diene). In this collaboration, Mitsui Chemicals’ synthetic rubber technology was combined with Sumitomo Seika’s latexification technology. Sample work has already started for market exploration. Mitsui Chemicals expects EBT latex to have a wide range of applications,...

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Mitsui Chemicals Launches Products Made of Decomposed Waste Plastic Oil

on April 1, 2024 in Materials

Mitsui Chemicals has started manufacturing and selling chemicals and plastics derived from chemical recycling by mass balance method, using pyrolysis oil made from waste plastic. Decomposed waste plastic oil procured from Fukuyama City-based CFP has been fed into crackers at the Osaka Works of Mitsui Chemicals in Takaishi City since March 13. In the future, the Mitsui Chemicals will market...

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Mitsui Chemicals Posts 9M Results

on February 14, 2024 in Materials

Mitsui Chemicals results for the first nine months (April-December) of the fiscal year ending March 2024 showed revenue of 1,274.53 billion yen ($8.54 billion), down 10.8% year-on-year; core operating profit of 72.38 billion yen, down 34.4%; and net income of 37.26 billion yen, down 42.6%. Among segments, Mobility posted sales revenue of 398.36 billion yen, up 1.9%, and core operating...

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Mitsui Chemicals Uses IBM’s AI to Achieve Higher Accuracy and Speed to Find New Applications

on September 28, 2023 in Industry

Mitsui Chemicals and IBM Japan have achieved higher accuracy and speed in the search for new applications of Mitsui Chemicals’ products by combining Microsoft Azure OpenAI’s GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer), a type of generative AI, and the IBM Watson AI. Specifically, the number of dictionaries created specific to Mitsui Chemicals increased approximately 10-fold, the efficiency of extracting new uses was...

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Mitsui Chemicals Doubles Production of Takelac PUD for Food Wrappers

on September 4, 2023 in Materials

Mitsui Chemicals will increase the production capacity of Takelac PUD polyurethane dispersion to meet the growing demand for mono-material food wrapping materials due to the increasing need for environmental friendliness. Specifically, Mitsui Chemicals MC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsui Chemicals, will add PUD production facilities to its Shimizu Plant. This is expected to approximately double Japanese domestic production capacity....

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Mitsui Chemicals Breaks Ground for New Elastomer Plant in Singapore

on August 8, 2023 in Materials

Mitsui Chemicals has broken ground for a new Tafmer high-performance elastomer plant at Mitsui Elastomers Singapore, its wholly owned subsidiary in Singapore. The new plant will be located on Jurong Island, Singapore, with an annual production capacity of 120,000 tons (existing facility capacity: 225,000 tons per year), and is scheduled for completion during fiscal 2024. In its long-term management plan...

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