Business vision (Our ideal vision for 2030)

Contributing to improved quality of life and the assurance of food safety and security
by offering solutions that support life, health, and comfortable lifestyles

Business Vision

Challenges and needs of society

  • Increase in global population
  • Extension of healthy life-span
  • Increase in needs for hygienic environments due to COVID-19 pandemic
  • Improvement in quality of life (QOL)
  • Assurance of food safety and security

Issues

Life care solutions

Vision care materials

  • Securing supply capabilities in line with demand growth
  • Increasing the resilience of global supply chains

Nonwovens

  • Enhancing cost competitiveness in the mature hygiene materials (disposable diapers) market

Personal care materials

  • Acquiring a business foundation for launching new businesses

Wellness solutions

Agrochemical products

  • Strengthening domestic presence together with newly acquired business
  • Increasing the resilience of supply chains
  • Expanding our lineup of eco-friendly agrochemicals

Medical solutions

Oral care materials

  • Increasing presence in the Americas market

Orthopedic materials

  • Accelerating product development and strengthening and expanding the business foundation

Market analysis and strategies

Risks and opportunities

Life care solutions

Vision care materials

  • Global market growth

Nonwovens

  • Stagnation in Japanese market for disposable baby diapers
  • Stable growth in domestic demand for materials used in adult diapers and feminine care products
  • Intensifying competition in East and Southeast Asia; soaring raw materials and other costs

Personal care materials

  • Increasing need for hygienic environments

Wellness solutions

Agrochemical products

  • Growing agrochemicals markets in Asia and South America
  • Growth in the market for agrochemical-related products (disease prevention field)
  • Growth in solutions business through extension of the value chain

Medical solutions

Oral care materials

  • Rapid changes in trends (shift towards smaller instruments, etc.) in, and expansion of, the digital dental technology market

Personal care materials

  • Spread of preventive and personalized medicine

Orthopedic materials

  • Growing needs for extending healthy life-span and improving QOL

Competitive advantages

Life care solutions

Vision care materials

  • Broad product lineup

Nonwovens

  • Consistent technological capabilities, from base resins to processing

Personal care materials

  • R&D capabilities founded on enzyme technology and organic synthesis technology

Wellness solutions

Agrochemical products

  • Overseas expansion, particularly in Asia
  • Broad product lineup

Medical solutions

Oral care materials

  • Global brand power
  • Comprehensive R&D capabilities spanning base materials to processed dental materials

Orthopedic materials

  • Materials technology applied to dental materials, etc.

Strategies

Life care solutions

Vision care materials

  • Developing high-added-value materials to meet diverse customer needs

New fields

  • Cultivating other pillars beyond vision care (new businesses and products in the living environments and aquatic environments field)

Wellness solutions

Agrochemical products

  • Accelerating the expansion of our insecticides in growth markets
  • Fleshing out our lineup of eco-friendly agrochemicals
  • Expanding business in non-agrochemical areas (termite-proofing, veterinary drugs, living environments)

New fields

  • Expanding business in areas related to health technology and biotechnology (new business and new product development in nutrition field)

Medical solutions

Oral care materials

  • Bolstering group ties
  • Digitalization

New fields

  • Expanding into orthopedic surgery sector and pharmaceutical CDMO operations

Main Products

Life care solutions

Vision care materials

Ophthalmic lens materials ( MR™, RAV 7™, Do Green™ )
Photochromic lens materials ( SunSensors™ ), Coating materials ( Crystal Coat™ )

The Vision Care Materials Division of Mitsui Chemicals
Vision care materials

Nonwovens

Nonwovens ( AIRYFA™, SYNTEX™, TAFNEL™ ), Synthetic pulp ( SWP™ ),
Shape holding material ( TEKNOROTE™ ), Breathable films ( ESPOIR™ )

Personal care materials

Acrylamide, Methacrylamide,
Antibacterial and anti-mold agents ( YOHTOL™DP95, YOHTOL™DP-CD ), DMI™

Nonwovens

Wellness solutions

Agrochemical products

Insecticides, Fungicides, Herbicides, Non-crop specialty chemicals, Pet medication ingredients

Agrochemical products

Medical solutions

Oral care materials

Restoratives ( Charisma™, Venus™ ), Adhesives ( Super-Bond™, iBOND™ ),
Artificial teeth, Denture materials ( PALA™ ), Impression ( Flexitime™ ),
Digital equipment/materials ( cara™, DIMA™ )

Personal care materials

Medical materials ( taurine, serine, PLGA™ )

Oral care materials

Pick UpWellness solutions: Agrochemical products
― Adding new active ingredients as growth drivers for further business expansion ―

Global operations of Mitsui Chemicals Agro, Inc.

Mitsui Chemicals Agro, Inc. possesses advanced agrochemical discovery technologies based on many years of experience in molecular design, organic synthesis, and biological evaluation, and is carrying out invention of highly unique next-generation active ingredients and the development of agrochemical products.
The company is currently working to strengthen its business foundation overseas. As a specific example, it is focusing on expanding sales of dinotefuran, which displays superior efficacy against major pests and is highly anticipated by agricultural producers in Brazil, the largest market in the world (registered for agricultural use in 41 countries and for non-agricultural use in 28 countries). Likewise, it is expanding registration of products containing TENEBENAL™ as the active ingredient to more countries (registered for agricultural use in 10 countries and for non-agricultural use in 5 countries).
Moreover, the company is contributing to improved QOL through the expansion of vector solutions business in emerging countries.

Acquisition of agrochemicals business of Meiji Seika Pharma Co., Ltd.

With research and development as its foundation, Mitsui Chemicals Agro, Inc. aspires to be a global solutions company that drives change and contributes to sustainable food and lifestyles through its products and services.
The company’s acquisition of the agrochemical business of Meiji Seika Pharma Co., Ltd. (newly established as MMAG Co., Ltd.) in January 2022 is anticipated to accelerate business growth by (1) bringing new growth drivers and human resources to the company, (2) strengthening its presence in the Japanese domestic market, (3) strengthening its portfolio and licensing business outside Japan, (4) expanding its eco-friendly product portfolio, and (5) enhancing its drug discovery capabilities. In particular, dinotefuran and TENEBENAL™, the growth driver chemicals offered by Mitsui Chemicals Agro, Inc., will be supplemented by probenazole, flupyrimin, and glufosinate-P, offered by MMAG Co., Ltd. The company will also work to further broaden its portfolio of active ingredients, including eco-friendly active ingredients, and expand business in Japan as well as in key overseas countries and areas (Brazil, India, and Southeast Asia).

Expansion of  growth driver lineup

TopicsIndustrial applications for nonwoven fabrics

Our main nonwoven fabric product, SYNTEX™ MB, which leverages our proprietary fine fiber technology, is used in chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) slurries for cutting-edge semiconductors, as well as for filtration of foreign materials in the manufacturing process for multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCC), etc. We will expand our SYNTEX™ MB manufacturing facilities from April 2023 in order to meet future demand growth.

Liquid filter/foreign material filtration applications
Liquid filter /
foreign material filtration applications