Nissan Chemical : Fire Accident at Nagoya Plant (2nd Report)
November 16, 2023 at 11:08 pm EST
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November 17, 2023
Fire Accident at the Nagoya Plant (2nd Report)
Nissan Chemical Corporation is afraid to announce that a fire accident occurred at our Nagoya Plant (7, Tsukiji-cho, Minato-ku,Nagoya Prefecture) which manufactures chemical products, November 6th, 2023 at around 4:30 p.m. (reference: Fire Accident at the Nagoya Plant 1st Report on November 8th, 2023https://www.nissanchem.co.jp/eng/news_release/release/en2023_11_08.pdf).
We deeply apologize for the great inconvenience and concern caused to the neighbors and all those involved. We reported to the related authorities, and we would like to update the information about the current status of this case.
1. Location of the occurrence
Our sulfuric acid manufacturing facility in the Nagoya Plant
2. Time of occurrence
Date of occurrence: Around 4:30 p.m. on Monday, November 6th, in an electrostatic precipitator at a sulfuric acid manufacturing facility caught fire.
Fire extinguishment time: Around 6:07 p.m. on the same day, a public firefighter confirmed the fire extinguishment.
Damage status Human damage: None
Property Damage: Part of the electrostatic precipitator was burn out.
Environmental Impact
Soot was temporarily scattered outside the factory premises. No impact on drainage, etc. has been confirmed.
Neighborhood impact No major impact.
Cause and countermeasure
Cause:A grounding failure occurred due to corrosion and rupture of the grounding material
(material: SUS316L) on the dust collection plate (material: CFRP, carbon fiber reinforced plastic) of an electric precipitator. It is estimated that this caused sparks to occur locally on the dust collection plate, causing the dust collection plate to overheat and cause the fire.
Countermeasures:After checking with related authorities, we plan to install exhaust discharge pipe and resume operations. After that, we will introduce and install an electrostatic precipitator with countermeasures.
Production restart date Scheduled on December 1st
Future actions
In order to prevent similar accidents from happening again, we will implement thorough measures based on the results of the accident investigation. In addition, we will share this information with all our other plants and we will work on safety activities.
Contact information for inquiries on the above
Nissan Chemical Corporation
Corporate Planning Department
Planning Office, Public Relations Group
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Nissan Chemical Corporation specializes in manufacturing and marketing chemical products. Net sales break down by family of products as follows:
- performance materials (30.2%): polyimide resins, colloids, silicas, inorganic materials, etc. for the manufacturng of electronic products (semiconductors, LCD displays, etc.);
- agrochemical products (25.1%): insecticides (Sanmite, Starmite, Mito-Kohne, Leimay and Ikaruga brands), herbicides (Roundup, Targa, Sirius and Permit), fertilizers, etc.;
- basic chemicals and fine chemicals (11.3%): melamine, sulfuric acid, nitric acid, ammonia, etc.;
- pharmaceutical products (2.9%): primarily for treatment of angina, hypertension, cholesterol, etc.;
- other (25.8%).
The remaining sales (25.8%) are from the chemicals trading activity.
Net sales break down geographically as follows: Japan (47.7%), China (14.5%), Korea (10.3%), Asia (13.8%), Europe and the United States (13.7%).
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