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Performance Products Segment
Pioneering the Future for an Array of Industries
Pioneering the Future for an Array of Industries
Integrating our Group strengths and stressing dialogue with our customers, we deliver a variety of performance products that are rich in high value added in the fields of information and electronics; environment and energy; medical care and food ingredients. These products demonstrate their superior performance in various ways and at various places in society at large.
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Information and electronics products
Printing supplies
Printing supplies
Printing supplies
The properties of chemical substances that produce physical and chemical changes in reaction to light or heat are applied to imaging. In this area, we are developing such products as toner and organic photo conductors (OPC) for printers and copiers, media and ink sheets for dye diffusion thermal transfer printing, and dyestuff for inkjet printers.
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Display materials
Display materials
Display materials
The market for displays is continuing to grow. We offer a wide array of solutions, including materials and components for LCDs and phosphors for CRTs and PDPs. Compound semiconductors are used in a variety of products that include light emitting diodes (LED), the laser diodes for optical disc players and drives, and components for mobile phones. The Group is playing an important role in the fields of displays and information technology.
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Optical recording media
Optical recording media
Optical recording media
The Mitsubishi Chemical Group has consistently led the world in developing large capacity, highly reliable products such as the world's first commercialized 90 mm magneto optical disk. The Group sells magneto optical disks (MO), CD-R/-RW, DVDR/RW and other optical recording media on global markets and boasts a top share.
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Performance chemicals
API and other intermediates
Responding to the need for outsourcing of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) and pharmaceutical intermediates, we quickly established synthesis routes and manufacturing technologies and are providing stable supplies. These activities are based on the organic synthesis capabilities and biotechnologies possessed by the Group.
We additionally handle a number of other intermediates with unique functions including varieties of aldehydes, which are used as raw materials for fragrances and flavours; monomers for polyimides; and epoxy resin and its raw materials for semiconductors.
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Ion exchange resins, activated carbon
We provide a wide range of solutions in environment-related fields, from water treatment to air purification, separation, purification and deodorization. All of our products in this area are top brands in the industry and are based on the advanced technology cultivated over many years by the Group. Their high performance and high quality are readily acknowledged by customers. With MCI GEL, high performance liquid chromatography columns and packing resins, we provide broad-ranging support for separation technology at every level, from research lab to industry.
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Electronic chemicals
The Group develops a variety of high purity chemicals used in semiconductor and LCD production lines. These include electronic-and industrial-use ultra high purity process chemicals that respond to the trend toward integration of semiconductors, advanced cleaners that achieve highly purified surfaces at low costs, and high performance wet etchants that optimally match customer needs and processes. In each of these areas, we provide solutions optimized to customer needs and processes.
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Food ingredients
Food ingredients
Our sugar esters are emulsifiers produced with a proprietary technology using natural substances as raw materials. Because they are extremely safe, they are used primarily in food products and also in cosmetics and pharmaceuticals, and have become a product indispensable to daily life. We also provide high quality food processing materials, such as polyglyceryl fatty acid esters, that leverage the Group's R&TD and technical service capabilities.
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Performance materials
Carbon materials and products
Carbon materials and products
Carbon is an area of business Mitsubishi Chemical has been continuously involved in since its establishment in 1934. Coke supports steel industries both domestically and abroad, and the tar generated in coke manufacturing processes also has led to an array of products. Additionally, carbon black is used widely in everyday items such as tires, printer ink and colorants for plastics.
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Performance polymers
Performance polymers
Goggle gasket
(PRIMALLOY)
 
Performance polymers
Door trim
(THERMORUN)
 
Based on its polymerization, modification and compounding technologies, the Group is developing and manufacturing thermoplastic elastomers, crosslinked polymers, adhesive polymers and conductive polymers with functions that include flexibility, endurance, heat resistance and adhesiveness. We have a product lineup that meets a broad range of diverse needs in fields that include automobiles, food products, electric machinery and medicine.
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Inorganic materials
We supply industry with ammonia derivatives, inorganic acids and a wide array of other inorganic chemicals and industrial gas products. We also developed synthetic silica based on the inorganic chemistry technologies cultivated through these activities. Additionally, we developed a new manufacturing method for mesoporous silica, whose use is anticipated in a wide range of applications including catalysts, modifiers, fillers and adsorbents.
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Key Word
Specialty colorants
Mitsubishi Kagaku Media Co., Ltd. develops and markets CD-R, DVDR and other optical discs. The company supplies the market with proprietary branded products and also sells azo dyes, the core technology for recordable optical discs. In the area of dyestuff for recordable DVDs, the company enjoys an overwhelming share of the global market.
The Mitsubishi Chemical Group has positioned a broad range of dye-related technologies including azo dyes as one of its core technologies, and is developing them for a diverse array of products other than just optical discs, including high performance materials for color printers and high performance filters for displays.
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Battery materials
Li-ion rechargeable batteries are composed of a cathode, an anode, a separator and electrolytes. The Group has nearly 20 years of experience in electrolytes and has expanded its business domain into anode and cathode materials. We take advantage of our strength as the sole manufacturer in Japan of three of the separate parts materials to provide comprehensive proposals that cover from a customer's initial development stages through to commercialization.
Going forward, we will continue to develop advanced technologies including higher capacity, compact batteries that respond to the increasing functionality of mobile phones and other products, and materials for hybrid and fuel cell vehicles, an area where increasing demand is anticipated. The Group is committed to staking out a position as a globally-oriented total solution provider for energy storage system whose services include materials analyses and evaluative technologies for battery systems.
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Fullerene
Frontier Carbon Corporation
In December 2001, Mitsubishi Chemical partnered with Mitsubishi Corporation to establish the joint venture Frontier Carbon Corporation. We led the world in beginning full-fledged commercial production of fullerene, a new material on par with carbon nanotubes, at the Kurosaki Plant in May 2003. To do so, we have drawn on the basic patents of fullerene, other intellectual property and selling power of the Mitsubishi Corporation Group and on our own production technology that has been cultivated in the carbon business over many years. We have begun sample shipments to nearly 300 corporations and organizations that include raw materials manufacturers and research institutes, and applications of the material are expected in a wide range of fields.

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Departments, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
  Food Ingredients Department, Amenity Life Division
33-8 Shiba 5-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0014
Major businesses and products Sugar ester, food ingredients, Natural colors, natural antioxidant substance
  Performance Chemicals Department, Amenity Life Division
33-8 Shiba 5-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0014
TEL: [+81] (0)3-6414-3260
Major businesses and products Specialty intermediates, Specialty coating agents, Hair fixative polymers
  Performance Polymers Department, Amenity Life Division
33-8 Shiba 5-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0014
TEL: [+81] (0)3-6414-3300
Major businesses and products Thermoplastic elastomer (TPE), Crosslinked polymers, Conductive polymers, Adhesive polymers
  Recording Media Department, Information and Electronics Division
33-8 Shiba 5-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0014
Major businesses and products Optical recording media, Papers for inkjet printer, OHP films, Dyestuff for DVD, Stamper
  Optoelectronics Department, Information and Electronics Division
33-8 Shiba 5-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0014
TEL: [+81] (0)3-6414-3330
Major businesses and products Compound semiconductor materials (GaAs, GaP, GaN), Phosphors for LEDs
  Display Materials Department, Information and Electronics Division
33-8 Shiba 5-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0014
TEL: [+81] (0)3-6414-3360
Major businesses and products Color resist for LCDs, Resin black resist, Photo spacer,
Colorants for inkjet ink, Dyes for dye thermal diffusion transfer printing
  Imaging Materials Department, Information and Electronics Division
33-8 Shiba 5-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0014
TEL: [+81] (0)3-6414-3370
Major businesses and products Organic photo conductor (OPC), Toner
  Separation Materials Department, Environmental Solution Division
33-8 Shiba 5-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0014
TEL: [+81] (0)3-6414-3390
Major businesses and products Ion exchange resins, Synthetic adsorbent material, liquid chromatography columns and packing resins
  Chemical System Service Department, Environmental Solution Division
33-8 Shiba 5-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0014
TEL: [+81] (0)3-6414-3410
Major businesses and products Ultra high purity process chemicals
  Battery Materials Department
33-8 Shiba 5-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0014
TEL: [+81] (0)3-6414-3480
Major businesses and products Anode/cathode materials and electrolyte for Li-ion rechargeable battery
  New Business Development Department, Performance Products Development Division
33-8 Shiba 5-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0014
TEL: [+81] (0)3-6414-3500
Major businesses and products New business development in the Performance Products Segment
  Performance Products Research Center, Performance Products Development Division
33-8 Shiba 5-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0014
TEL: [+81] (0)3-6414-3500
Major businesses and products Research and technology development in the Performance Products Segment
  Administration Department, Performance Products Planning and Coordination Division
33-8 Shiba 5-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0014
TEL: [+81] (0)3-6414-3520
Major businesses and products Administration in the Performance Products Segment
  Planning Department, Performance Products Planning and Coordination Division
33-8 Shiba 5-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0014
TEL: [+81] (0)3-6414-3540
Major businesses and products Planning in the Performance Products Segment
  Inorganic Chemicals Department, Performance Products Planning and Coordination Division
33-8 Shiba 5-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0014
TEL: [+81] (0)3-6414-3460
Major businesses and products Industrial gas products
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Group Companies
*Consolidated subsidiaries
**Affiliates accounted for by equity method
Japan
* API Corporation
2-4-9 Hirano-machi, Chuo-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka 541-0046
TEL: [+81] (0)6-6201-1900
Major businesses and products Active pharmaceutical ingredients, Fine chemicals
* Calgon Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
1-5 Kyobashi 1-chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0031
TEL: [+81] (0)3-5205-0666
Major businesses and products Activated carbon
** Dia Chemco Company Limited
33-8 Shiba 5-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0014
TEL: [+81] (0)3-6414-3290
Major businesses and products Substrate for cosmetics
** Dia Fine Co., Ltd.
2-6-8 Bingo-machi, Chuo-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka 541-0051
TEL: [+81] (0)6-6262-8608
Major businesses and products Dye stuff and chemicals for paper industry
* Dia Instruments Co., Ltd.
370 Enzo, Chigasaki-shi, Kanagawa 253-0084
TEL: [+81] (0)467-85-4481
Major businesses and products Analysis equipments
** Frontier Carbon Corporation
8-7 Kyobashi 1-chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0031
TEL: [+81] (0)3-5159-6880
Major businesses and products Nanocarbon products
* Japan Epoxy Resins Co., Ltd.
3-4 Nihombashi 2-chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-0027
TEL: [+81] (0)3-5201-4761
Major businesses and products Epoxy resins
* Kasei Optonix, Ltd.
1060 Naruda, Odawara-shi, Kanagawa 250-0862
TEL: [+81] (0)465-36-1111
Major businesses and products Phosphors, Intensifying screen for radiography
* Mitsubishi Chemical Agri, Inc.
6-7 Kaji-machi 3-chome, Kanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0045
TEL: [+81] (0)3-5289-0300
Major businesses and products Fertilizers, Green and gardening materials
* Mitsubishi-Kagaku Foods Corporation
11-1 Shibakoen 2-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0011
TEL: [+81] (0)3-5403-9150
Major businesses and products Food ingredients, Sugar ester, Erythritol
* Mitsubishi Kagaku Media Co., Ltd.
31-19 Shiba 5-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0014
TEL: [+81] (0)3-5484-3925
Major businesses and products FD, MO, CD-R/-RW, DVD±R/DVD±RW
* Nippon Kasei Chemical Company Limited (Tokyo Head Office)
8-8 Shinkawa 1-chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0033
TEL: [+81] (0)3-5540-5861
Major businesses and products Industrial chemicals, Specialty chemicals, Inorganic chemicals
** Ryoto Hiryo Co., Ltd.
3-3-1 Toyomi, Oita-shi, Oita 870-0018
TEL: [+81] (0)97-534-5911
Major businesses and products Fertilizers, Molding
* Shinryo Corporation
1-2 Shiroishi, Kurosaki, Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyushu-shi, Fukuoka 806-0004
TEL: [+81] (0)93-643-2777
Major businesses and products Ecological recycling, Semiconductors, Fine chemicals
** TM AIR CO., LTD.
16-7 Nishishimbashi 1-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8442
TEL: [+81] (0)3-3500-0820
Major businesses and products Industrial gas
* Yuka Denshi Company Limited
31-19 Shiba 5-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0014
TEL: [+81] (0)3-5484-3950
Major businesses and products Materials for electronics devices
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Asia Pacific
* Mitsubishi Chemical Infonics Pte Ltd
103 Pioneer Road, Jurong, Singapore 639582
TEL: [+65] 6863-8038
Major businesses and products Organic photo conductor (OPC), CD-RW, DVD±R/DVD±RW
* Tai Young Chemical Co., Ltd. (太洋化成股份有限公司)
No.62 Kuang Fu Road, Hsinchu Industrial Park, Hsinchu Hsien, Taiwan ROC
TEL: [+886] (0)3-598-5987
Major businesses and products Ion exchange resins
* Tai Young High Tech Co., Ltd. (太洋新技股份有限公司)
No.62 Kuang Fu Road, Hsinchu Industrial Park, Hsinchu Hsien, Taiwan ROC
TEL: [+886] (0)3-598-5987
Major businesses and products Electronics grade chemicals, Precision cleaning, Liquid crystal display (LCD) glass recycling
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USA
* Mitsubishi Chemical Performance Polymers, Inc.
2001 Hood Road, Greer, SC 29652, USA
TEL: [+1] 864-879-5000
Major businesses and products Thermoplastic polyeter elastomer: THERMORUN, RABALON, High performance adhesive polymer: MODIC, Fine chemicals
* Mitsubishi Kagaku Imaging Corporation
401 Volvo Parkway, Cheasapeake, VA 23320, USA
TEL: [+1] 757-382-5700
Major businesses and products Copy machine-related and printer-related products (Organic photo conductor (OPC), Toner)
* USR Optonix Inc.
Kings Highway, Box 409, Hackettstown, NJ 07840, USA
TEL: [+1] 908-850-1500
Major businesses and products Phosphors, Intensifying screen for radiography
* Verbatim Corporation
1200 West W.T. Harris Boulevard, Charlotte, NC 28262, USA
TEL: [+1] 704-547-6500
Major businesses and products CD-R/-RW, DVD±R/±RW, MO
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Europe
** RESINDION S.R.L.
Via Roma, 55 - 20082 Binasco (MI), Italy
TEL: [+39] 02-900130.1
Major businesses and products Ion exchange resins
* Verbatim Limited
Prestige House, 23-26 High Street, Egham, Surrey TW20 9DU, UK
TEL: [+44] (0)1784-439-781
Major businesses and products CD-R/-RW, DVD±R/±RW, MO
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