Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Tokyo: 4183; President & CEO: Tsutomu Tannowa) today announced that it has opened the Design & Solution Center in Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture. The center will serve as a new base that widely offers the Mitsui Chemicals Group's development capabilities, ranging from design to analysis, molding, prototyping and evaluation. An opening ceremony for the new center was held on March 11.
With the Mitsui Chemicals Group possessing product development capabilities in design, analysis, molding, prototyping and evaluation, Mitsui Chemicals has established the Design & Solution Center in aim of bringing these capabilities together to exhibit synergies within the group and to speed up the creation process. The base will be used to help Mitsui Chemicals in strengthening its growth sectors of Mobility, Health Care and Food & Packaging. The Mitsui Chemicals Group aims through these efforts to strengthen its offering of total solution while also creating new customer value through Innovations.
Overview of the New Facility
1. Facility name
Design & Solution Center
2. Established
March 2019
3. Location
Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture
4. Floor area
2,700m2
5. Aim of the facility
To strengthen the ability to offer solutions as well as facilitate the development of new businesses and products.
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Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. specializes in the manufacture and marketing of chemicals products. Net sales break down by product family as follows:
- basic chemicals and fine chemicals products (48.8%): polypropylene, polyethylene, phenols, polyolefins, polyurethane, etc.;
- performance chemicals products (25.5%): elastomers, urethane, polymers, etc. intended in particular for the automotive industry;
- coating materials, films and agrochemicals (14.6%): resins, adhesives, polypropylene films, polyethylene films, industrial films, agrochemicals (insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, etc.) for the food and packaging sectors;
- specialty materials (10.2%): ophthalmic lens materials, photochromic materials, non-woven fibers, dental products, etc. dedicated to the medical and healthcare industry;
- other (0.9%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Japan (52.2%), China (14.5%), Asia (13.6%), America (11.8%), Europe (7.3%) and other (0.6%).
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