July 1987 | MC Chemicals Marketing Co., Ltd. established (Solvent trading division splits off from the Aromatic Petrochemicals Dept. of Mitsubishi Corporation) |
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October 1987 | Start of business (Tokyo HQ, Osaka Sales Department) |
November 1988 | Opened Nagoya Sales Department |
April 1989 | Opened Kyushu Sales Department |
April 1991 | Company name changed to MC Chemical Corporation Started coating resin operations (Transferred from the High Performance Plastics & Chemicals Dept. of Mitsubishi Corporation) |
April 1993 | Started functional chemical operations |
April 1996 | Reorganized Osaka Sales Department to create Osaka Branch Office |
April 1998 | Reorganized Nagoya and Kyushu Sales Departments to create new branch offices |
October 1998 | Changed company name to Mitsubishi Shoji Chemical Corporation after expanding capital base |
March 2009 | Integrated Kyushu Branch Office with Osaka Branch Office |
August 2009 | Obtained ISO 14001, the international standard for environmental management systems (head office) |
April 2010 | Expansion of capital base brings capital fund total to 392 million yen MC YAMASAN POLYMERS CO., LTD. made a subsidiary (investment ratio 90%) |
October 2010 | Started silicones and fumed silicas operations (Transferred fromFunctional Chemicals Division of Mitsubishi Corporation) |
July 2011 | Reorganized Sales Department into Sales Department 1 and 2 Began handling paint materials/products (Transferred from Functional Chemicals Division of Mitsubishi Corporation) |
April 2015 | Began handling functional products (Transferred from the Functional Chemicals Division of Mitsubishi Corporation) |
April 2017 | Started intermediates operations (Transferred from Commodity Chemicals Division A of Mitsubishi Corporation) Started urethane operations (Transferred from Functional Chemicals Division of Mitsubishi Corporation) |
April 2020 | Started sulfuric acid transactions (Transferred from the Refinery Chemicals Marketing Dept . of Mitsubishi Corporation) |
April 2023 | Changed division name Sales & Marketing Division I to Basic Products Division Changed division name Sales & Marketing Division II to Performance Products Division |
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