Social Activities

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.

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.

Mitsui Chemicals “Eco-Creation,” a volunteer team from the Ichihara Works of Mitsui Chemicals, Inc., received the Japan Road Association Chairman's Award for fiscal 2022. This was due in large part to the activities of cleaning, weeding, and maintaining flower beds in the green space on the city street in front of the entrance gate of the Ichihara Works. Seedlings grown by the Social Welfare Corporation Yukeikai Furusato Gakusya are provided by way of Ichihara City as part of a project to promote roadside protection.

On October 23, 2022, we participated in the “Project to Discover the Attractiveness of Our Omuta for the Future” organized by the Junior Chamber of Omuta. The purpose of this project is to foster a love of Omuta by giving Omuta citizens and students the opportunity to learn and experience what Omuta companies make and how they are used. Visitors got to know us at our booth, which displayed the history of the Works, our community activities, and our products.

As part of its CSR activities, Mitsui Chemicals India Pvt Ltd. (MCIND) donated FASTAID™ Virus Sweeper Towel and AUSIRO como antibacterial spray, which are Mitsui Fine Chemicals products, to a public hospital in Delhi, India (Lok Nayak Hospital) via an NGO, Sakshi, in September 2021. Lok Nayak Hospital is one of the largest public hospitals treating COVID-19 patients in Southeast Asia. The hospital has treated more than 21,000 patients infected with the disease and is visited by approximately 10,000 outpatients per day. In appreciation for the donation from MCIND, the company received a letter of appreciation from Dr. Suresh Kumar. Dr. Suresh Kumar is a Medical Director at Lok Nayak Hospital and has been nominated by the Indian government for the Padma Awards 2021, the most prestigious award for private citizens.

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.
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.