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History

History

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

Present

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