Dow and Mitsui Form Joint Venture for Chlor-Alkali Production

09-Jul-2010 - The Dow Chemical Company and Mitsui & Co., Ltd., of Tokyo, Japan announced that the two companies have signed a definitive agreement to form a 50:50 manufacturing joint venture to construct, own and operate a new membrane chlor-alkali facility located at Dow’s Freeport, Texas, integrated ...

Mitsui Chemicals to Expand Alpha-Olefin Copolymer Production Capacity in Singapore

Total Investment Approx. 19 billion yen

11-Jul-2007 - Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. ("MCI"), a leading company of polyolefin elastomers, will establish a new plant to augment production capacity for TAFMERTM. The new plant will be managed by MITSUI ELASTOMERS SINGAPORE PTE. LTD. ("MELS"), a subsidiary of MCI, manufacturing and selling TAFMERTM. This ...

Mitsui Chemicals to Open Liaison Office in India

01-Mar-2007 - Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. opened a liaison office in New Delhi, India. This office is the first local stronghold for MCI, which will support the market development of its Elastomers business, as well as conduct market research, market development support and on-site study of India. The office ...

Mitsui Chemicals to Conclude a Sales Agreement for New Fungicide with DuPont

19-Jan-2007 - Mitsui Chemicals Inc. signed an agreement on December 7, 2006, with E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company ("DuPont") to supply a new fungicide known as Penthiopyrad (MCI Code Number: MTF-753). In accordance with this agreement, MCI will license DuPont to register and sell formulated products using ...

Formation of Mitsui Chemicals Polyurethanes, Inc.

09-Mar-2006 - According to the company, Mitsui Takeda Chemicals, Inc. (MTCI), a joint venture company established in April 2001 by Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (MCI) and Takeda Chemical Industries, Ltd. (Takeda), has built a strong position as a leading company in urethane and urethane derivatives in Asia. In ...

Mitsui Chemicals Develops a New High Refractive Index Liquid ("Delphi") for Next-generation Immersion Lithography

16-Sep-2005 - Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (MCI) announced development of a high refractive index liquid ("Delphi") for next-generation immersion lithography in photolithographic processing for semiconductor fabrication. An evaluation by Semiconductor Leading Edge Technologies, Inc. ("Selete") confirmed that Delphi ...

Mitsui-Takeda to Expand Polyurethane Resin Business in China

09-Sep-2005 - Mitsui Takeda Chemicals, Inc. (MTCI) has agreed with the current joint venture partners for Tianjin Cosmo Polyurethane Co., Ltd. (TCPC) as follows, in order to capture the rapidly growing demand for polyurethane(PU) resins in China. MTCI increases its stake in TCPC thus converting it to a ...

Mitsui and Iran's MHPC to Sign HDPE Plant Contract

21-Jun-2005 - Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. (MES) and Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (MCI) jointly entered into a contract with Iran's Mehr Petrochemical Company Ltd.(MHPC) on June 15, for construction of a high density polyethylene (HDPE) manufacturing plant, MES and MCI announced. HDPE is a plastic ...

Mitsui Chemicals to Exit from Acrylonitrile Production & Sale

08-Oct-2004 - Japan's Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (MCI) has decided to exit from the production and sale of acrylonitrile (AN) and to secure the AN requirements of MCI and its domestic affiliate companies through toll production by an external company Asahi Kasei Chemicals (AKC), MCI announced. In the latest ...

Mitsui Chemicals' starts new Singapore elastomers plant

22-Apr-2003 - Mitsui Elastomers Singapore Pte. Ltd., has embarked upon the commercial operation of its new high-performance elastomers plant on Jurong Island, Singapore, MCI announced today. MELS was established on February 7, 2001, with a paid-in capital of 35 million U.S. dollars and head offices in ...