Social contribution activities

Disaster Recovery Support

Whenever a major disaster occurs, we make every effort to engage in relief activities and provide support for social and charitable organizations, making the most of our strengths and unique characteristics as a company.

Disaster relief activities

The Mitsui Chemicals (MCI) Disaster Relief Team was created based on suggestions from employees, who wanted to help those affected by earthquakes and other major disasters by providing them with useful Mitsui Chemicals products. In fiscal 2010, we set up warehouses to store relief supplies at two of our sites –Iwakuni-Ohtake Works (Yamaguchi prefecture) to cover west Japan and Mobara Branch Factory (Chiba prefecture) to cover east Japan – and put in place the necessary framework to send out supplies upon request from local governments and other such organizations. We currently have stockpiles of items such as polyurethane mattresses (cushioned materials to lay on the floors of gymnasiums being used as evacuation shelters), food wrap (to enable dishes to be wrapped and reused in situations where water is scarce, so that they don't have to be washed), plastic water tanks (to store drinking water) and waterproof tarps (to cover buildings damaged by water or landslides, etc.) at both of these warehouses and are ready to send them out whenever necessary.
When torrential rains struck areas of Chugoku and Northern Kyushu in July 2010, we sent out waterproof tarps and HI-WRAP to the city of Sanyo-Onoda at the request of Yamaguchi Prefecture, and polyurethane mattresses to the city of Shobara and waterproof tarps to the town of Sera at the request of Hiroshima Prefecture. These materials made a small but real improvement to the lives of people who were forced to evacuate their homes.

In the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake, which struck off the northeast coast of Japan on March 11, 2011, we carried out the following relief activities in the affected area during the period from March 16 to 23, in conjunction with the NGOs Peace Winds Japan and Civic Force.

Relief supplies sent to the affected areas

  • 760 polyurethane mattresses, 650 waterproof tarps, 400 plastic water tanks (Mitsui Chemicals)
  • 56,000 biodegradable plates and bowls (Mitsui Chemicals Tohcello)
  • 5,864 rolls of HI-WRAP food wrap (Mitsui Chemicals Fabro)


Loading polyurethane mattresses

Although we always pray for disasters not to happen, we are nonetheless committed to providing effective emergency support in line with people's needs on the ground when they do happen, acting on instructions from local governments requesting supplies.

MCI Relief activities