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Mitsui Chemicals Honored at 22nd Green Sustainability Chemistry Awards

on June 22, 2023 in Industry

Mitsui Chemicals received the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Award at the 22nd Green Sustainable Chemistry Award (GSC Award) of the Japan Association for Chemical Innovation (JACI) for its “Practical Application of Polyurethanes Using Bio-based C5 Isocyanates and Their Derivatives”. The GSC Award recognizes outstanding achievements that contribute to the promotion of green and sustainable chemistry, and the “Minister...

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Mitsui Chemicals and CrowdChem Use AI to Search for New Materials

on June 7, 2023 in Industry

Mitsui Chemicals and CrowdChem have jointly developed a technology that can consistently perform everything from the extraction of technological information that will be useful in the future to the search for new materials, utilizing AI technology. This will make it possible to improve the efficiency of new material search using natural language processing. Furthermore, by combining past achievements with generative...

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Biomass PP from Mitsui Chemicals Subsidiary Adopted for Kuma Kengo-designed Tableware

on April 18, 2023 in Industry

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

on April 5, 2023 in Materials

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

on February 15, 2023 in Industry

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

on November 22, 2022 in Innovation

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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