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Promotion System

To accelerate the creation of new products and businesses, a development division has been established in each of the business sectors of specialty chemicals domains. The business divisions and development organizations cooperate more closely in the development of products and solutions. 

The Advanced Materials & Solutions Research Laboratory and the Catalysis & Process Research Laboratory have been established in the Research Center to promote research with the goals of enhancing, acquiring and developing core technologies and creating new businesses and products. 

Promotion System

Advanced Materials & Solutions Research Laboratory

Advanced Materials & Solutions Research Laboratory

Creating innovative materials and solutions for a brighter future

The laboratory pursues the creation of high-performance materials and provision of new value through a wide synthesis and design technologies and future-oriented R&D activities.  

The laboratory promotes research regarding chemicals with applications in diverse fields, such as the healthcare, ICT and mobility sectors, by creating molecules with targeted function using organic synthesis and biotechnologies. 

Furthermore, the laboratory uses design and processing technologies which bring out the maximum performance of polymeric materials to develop new materials with a broad range of applications in fields from food packaging materials to IT equipment. 

In addition, the laboratory seeks to acquire, develop and accumulate future technologies and expand its technological research activities which contribute to the creation of new businesses and products. 

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Catalysis & Process Research Laboratory

Refining technologies for making products that deliver value to the world

The core of Mitsui Chemicals is a manufacturer. However fantastic our research outcomes may be, they have no value until we deliver them to customers as products. 

The laboratory has been working for many years to develop and refine the manufacturing technologies needed to achieve this, and it has strongly supported the technical aspects of Mitsui Chemicals’ product development and mass production efforts. 

While continuously enhancing base technologies, such as manufacturing technology and process design, the laboratory uses its advanced analytical technologies and plays its role as a Group-wide technical platform.  Harnessing the extensive knowledge and insights that it has accumulated, the laboratory seeks to accurately solve technical challenges that need to be addressed in the streamlining of the manufacturing of existing products and the creation of new products.  

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Research Planning & Coordination Division

Support current research and innovate for a better future

The  division is engaged in activities with a vision for future innovation, including formulating research strategies to actualize long-term business plans, utilizing paradigm shifts in science and technology, creating new research themes in light of the SDGs and co-creating with diverse partners. 

The division also provides support functions essential for the implementation of research activities, involving the management of themes and the promotion of health and safety activities throughout the Research Center. 

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Mitsui Chemicals Singapore R&D Center

Creating new business opportunities as a technology showcase for the Mitsui Chemicals Group in Asia

Societies from India to the Middle East are undergoing rapid modernization, with Southeast Asia in particular drawing the attention of the global economy. This modernization is resulting in the creation of a stream of new markets, offering new business opportunities that are different from those available in Japan.

At the same time, numerous social issues are becoming apparent in these societies.

Mitsui Chemicals Singapore R&D Centre is composed of a diverse team of researchers from the Asia-Pacific region; working to identify local market changes and propose new value through collaboration with customers, research institutions and startup companies in the region.

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