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• GE has also acquired full control of its GE Plastics Japan joint venture with Mitsui Chemicals and Nagase through the acquisition of their equity interests, although Nagase will continue to serve GE Plastics Japan customers in China, and also 58% of the

  - 2007-09-10

  GE has also acquired full control of its GE Plastics Japan GEPJ joint venture with Mitsui Chemicals and Nagase through the acquisition of their equity interests, although Nagase will continue to serve GE Plastics Japan customers in China, and also 58% of the GEM PC joint venture with Mitsui and...

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• Mitsui Chemicals

  - 2007-09-10

  Mitsui Chemicals opened its first R&D centre outside Japan in 2006. Known as the Mitsui Chemicals Singapore Technical Centre, this focuses on catalysis and asymmetric synthesis--two areas of collaboration with the Institute of Chemical & Engineering Sciences. In July 2007, Mitsui further deepened its roots in Singapore by establishing a...

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• WORLD MARKETS: Tokyo

  - 2006-03-24

  Dealers locked in profits in Daiwa Securities and other recent gainers, with many investors hesitant to build new positions before the fiscal year-end on 31 March. Tech firms led gainers, with Canon up 0.7 per cent and TDK 1.8 per cent better. But Mitsui Chemicals led its peers lower after...

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• Sinopec and Mitsui join hands in BPA project.(bisphenol A)(Brief Article)

  - 2005-11-06

  Sinopec Corp. and Mitsui Chemicals Inc. of Japan signed formally in Shanghai, China on October 15 to set up Shanghai Sinopec Gaoqiao Mitsui Chemical Co., Ltd. for the establishment of 120 000 t/a bisphenol A BPA production line. BPA is the major material for the production of...

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• LG Chem signs license partnership with Mitsui chemicals.(Revaluation)

  - 2005-09-16

  LG Chem, Ltd., the largest chemical company in Korea, announced on August 17 that the company signed a license partnership agreement with Mitsui Chemicals Inc., for the use of their VCM/EDC technology. The partnership grants LG Chem with the exclusive rights to sublicense...

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• Homogenous propylene-based elastomers for food packaging.(Materials)

  - 2005-04-01

  Mitsui Chemicals Inc, Japan, has introduced a series of propylene-based elastomers. The resins--commercialized under the trade name Tafmer XM--are highly homogeneous, making them suitable for use as resin modifiers, with applications in such areas as food packaging, Mitsui says. When used...

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• Mitsui raises methylpentene polymer capacity.(new construction projects)(Chemical industry production capacity raised.)(Brief Article)

  - 2004-09-01

  Mitsui Chemicals says it will raise capacity for methylpentene polymer at IwakuniOhtake, Japan from 7,500 m.t./year, to 13,000 m.t./year, by July 2005. Demand for the product, part of Mitsui's performance materials business, is growing at more than 10%/year, the company says. It is used in electronics...

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• Mitsui builds PP plant in China.(Company News)

  - 2004-05-01

  Japan's Mitsui Chemicals plans to build a PP compound plant in southern China to service the growing market for plastics used in producing automotive parts in the country. The plant, which is due to start-up in April 2005, will be built in Zhongshan City...

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• Mitsui doubles TDI.(world newsbriefs)(toluene diisocyanate)(Brief Article)

  - 2003-10-01

  TOKYO--Mitsui Takeda Chemicals Inc. MTCI has recently started up a 60-kilotonnes-per-annum TDI toluene diisocyanate plant in Kashima, north of Tokyo, the company has announced. The expansion takes TDI capacity at MTCI's Kashima site to 120 ktpa, according to an 8 Sept company statement. MTCI...

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• Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Company News).(Pavilion Technologies Inc. Process Perfecter contract)(Brief Article)

  - 2003-06-01

  [check] Mitsui Chemicals, Inc., Austin, Texas, has selected Pavilion Technologies Inc. Process Perfecter to provide advanced process control and optimization at Mitsui's new polypropylene production facility GPP plant in Takaishi City, Osaka, Japan, Mitsui selected Pavilion's polymer solution to stabilize operations, secure product quality and...

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