History

Introduces the history of Mitsui Chemicals from founding to the present.

Year Event
1951 Nagoya Works begins volume production of vinyl chloride and vinyl chloride film.
Hokkaido Plant exports urea to Hawaii for the first time.
1950 Ammonium sulfate exported for the first time after World War II.
Nagoya Works inaugurated.
1948 Hokkaido Plant begins production of urea for fertilizer for the first time in Japan.
1947 Production of coating compounds begins at Ofuna Plant.
1943 Ofuna Plant inaugurated.
1942 Hokkaido Plant completed.
1941 Mitsui Chemical Industry established.
1939 Ground-breaking ceremony for Hokkaido Plant (currently Hokkaido Mitsui Chemicals).
1938 Omuta Plant starts production of phenol.
1933 Toyo Koatsu Industries established.
1929 Tohcello begins production and sales of cellophane.
1923 Test plant of Claude Nitrogen Industries Co., Ltd. constructed in Hikoshima, Shimonoseki.
1914 Naphthalene, anthracene, and aspirin plants commence operations in Omuta.
1912 Japan’s first Koppers coke oven constructed in Omuta.
In Omuta, plants for coal tar, gas, ammonium sulfate, and pitch begin operations.
1892 Mitsui Chemicals’ roots can be traced back to the coke made from coal mined at Miike Coal Mine (Fukuoka Prefecture, Kyushu).