Social Activities
Working in Harmony with Local Communities
At each of its business sites, the Mitsui Chemicals Group believes that relationships of trust, based on close-knit relations with everyone in the local area, are crucial to the normal and stable operation of its businesses. The Group thus provides opportunities for communication with everyone in the vicinity of its facilities.
Local Communication at Each Business Site
At each of our business sites, we invite local residents living in the vicinity to opinion exchange meetings and tours of our facilities. At the opinion exchange meetings, we provide an overview of the works and showcase our efforts to protect the environment, safety initiatives and activities designed to contribute to society. Lively discussions have ensued from residents living in the vicinity of our facilities speaking about their day-to-day feelings and any requests they have.
The comments and opinions received through communications with neighborhood communities are reflected in the management of our business sites as appropriate.
Examples of community exchange
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Ichihara Works | ||
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Name (Number of Events) | Those for Whom Events Organized | Details |
Autumn Festival* | Local residents |
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Works Tour* | Local women's association |
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Opinion Exchange Meeting (Once) | Local neighborhood town council officers |
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Publication of Local Communication Magazine “Chigusa” (Twice) | Local residents |
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*Not held in fiscal 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mobara Branch Factory | ||
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Name (Number of Events) | Those for Whom Events Organized | Details |
Fureai Park* | Local neighborhood council officers |
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Opinion Exchange Meetings* | Local neighborhood council officers |
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*Not held in fiscal 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nagoya Works | ||
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Name (Number of Events) | Those for Whom Events Organized | Details |
Works Tour*1 | Children's clubs from neighboring school districts, officers from neighboring school districts |
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Autumn Festival*1 | Local residents |
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Publication of Local Communication Magazine “Tango Dohri” (Twice) | Local residents |
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Environmental Dialogue with Local Residents (Once)*2 | Officers from neighboring school districts Minami Ward Office, Nagoya |
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*1Not held in fiscal 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
*2Replaced with written forms in fiscal 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Osaka Works | ||
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Name (Number of Events) | Those for Whom Events Organized | Details |
Works Tour* | Children's clubs from neighboring school districts, officers from neighboring school districts, local elementary schools |
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Local dialogue on Responsible Care* | Related parties of local government and various organizations |
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Publication of Local Communication Magazine “Takashinohama” (Twice) | Local residents |
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*Not held in fiscal 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Iwakuni-Ohtake Works | ||
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Name (Number of Events) | Those for Whom Events Organized | Details |
Opinion Exchange Meetings*1 | Heads of local neighborhood councils and those in charge of volunteer disaster response organizations |
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Laboratory Class on the Wonders of Chemistry*2 | Local elementary schools |
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Autumn Festival*2 | Local residents |
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Publication of Local Communication Magazine “Ozegawa” (Twice) | Local residents |
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*1Replaced with written forms in fiscal 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
*2Not held in fiscal 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Omuta Works | ||
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Name (Number of Events) | Those for Whom Events Organized | Details |
Opinion Exchange Meetings (4 times in August) | Related parties of local government |
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Laboratory Class on the Wonders of Chemistry (Once) | Local elementary schools |
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Publication of Local Communication Magazine “Toukayama” (Twice) | Local residents |
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*Held in an environment fully protected against COVID-19.
Sodegaura Center | ||
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Name (Number of Events) | Those for Whom Events Organized | Details |
Summer Festival* | Related parties of local neighborhood council, neighborhood companies, municipal office |
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Opinion Exchange Meetings (Twice) | Related parties of municipal office and police station |
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*Not held in fiscal 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.





Local Contribution by Business Sites
Each of our business sites is actively involved in local community activities as a corporate citizen.


Donating beach wheelchairs to a tourist site
Aiming to achieve MCRC 2030 Goals*, Chemours-Mitsui Fluoroproducts Co., Ltd. has taken on a new challenge to constantly increase its corporate value. Towards achieving this goal, the Company donated two beach wheelchairs to MIHO SHIRUBE, the Miho no Matsubara Culture & Creativity Center in Shizuoka City. The Company’s Shimizu Works is located in the vicinity of a World Heritage Site, Miho-no-Matsubara, a pine grove on the Miho Peninsula. Elderly people and wheelchair users could visit only a limited area in the grove as it is situated on a sandy beach. Our beach wheelchairs offer an opportunity for a greater number of visitors to enjoy the scenic views from various seaside locations.
*MCRC 2030 Goals:
Mitsui-Chemours Corporate Responsibility Commitment (MCRC) 2030 Goals are the ESG-related goals that Chemours-Mitsui Fluoroproducts Co., Ltd. is committed to achieving by fiscal 2030.
Improving the Educational Environment for Children in India (Mitsui Chemicals India and Mitsui Prime Advanced Composites India)
Aiming to cultivate future talents in local communities, Mitsui Chemicals India (MCIND) is continuously working to improve the educational environment for local children, such as by providing clean drinking water and various educational programs, and promoting sports and culture. In fiscal 2019, the Company offered CCTV cameras in a primary school to improve the safety of children and women in the area. One of our affiliates, Mitsui Prime Advanced Composites India (ACI) directly delivered a blackboard, clothes, and shoes to a local agricultural village after studying their educational needs. The company deepened exchanges with the community residents and children who gathered to receive the goods.

Cultural Preservation through the Farewell Project for Coal Railway
Mitsui Chemicals held the Farewell Project for Coal Railway as a part of our cultural preservation activities. The project was organized to celebrate the century-long service of the Mitsui Chemicals Exclusive Railway (formerly the Miike Coal Mine Railway), which was used to convey raw materials to Omuta Works until the railway’s closure in May 2020. With this project, we worked to capture the legacy of the trains for the future.
The former Miike Coal Mine Railway was familiarly known as the “coal mine train” to people living in Omuta City, Kumamoto Prefecture. Its service, lasting more than 100 years, is well remembered as a part of the scenery of the town, running through the streets carrying goods and people. A large part of the railway became disused following the closure of the Mitsui Miike Coal Mine in 1997. Only one section that spanned 1.8 km and the cars in use at that time remained in operation as an industrial railway for Mitsui Chemicals. The remains of the Miike Coal Mine Railway was registered as one of the Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution under UNESCO World Cultural Heritage in 2015.
In the Farewell Project for Coal Railway, films were created to memorialize the railway as an asset to the local landscape and were donated to Omuta City and related bodies. Also, the sounds of the working train were recorded and archived as ASMR* sound generator and made publicly available to a wide range of audience. Unfortunately, the ceremony planned to celebrate the train’s final run and the movie premiere had to be cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On the last day of the railway’s operation, we presented a bouquet of flowers to Miike Port Logistics Corporation’s staff, who have been carefully maintaining the trains and rails and ensuring safe operations, to thank them and the trains that worked over such a long time. The ceremony to mark the final run was rescheduled as a smaller scale event on July 31, 2021, with a limited number of attendees as a precaution against risks from COVID-19.
Aiming to be a corporation open to local communities, the Mitsui Chemicals Group values the culture built together in harmony with people in the neighborhood.
*ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response) is a response or sensation that a person feels from audio or visual stimulation, resulting in a pleasant or positive feeling in the brain.

