Mitsui Chemicals : Agro Concludes Acquisition of Meiji Seika Pharma’s Agrochemicals Business
January 03, 2022
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2022.01.04
Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Tokyo: 4183; President & CEO: HASHIMOTO Osamu) today announced that wholly owned subsidiary Mitsui Chemicals Agro, Inc. (Tokyo; President & CEO: OZAWA Satoshi) has completed its acquisition of the agrochemicals business of Meiji Seika Pharma Co., Ltd. (Tokyo; President and Representative Director: KOBAYASHI Daikichiro). The agreement for this acquisition was previously announced on September 10 via press release. *1
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Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. specializes in the manufacture and marketing of chemicals products. Net sales break down by product family as follows:
- basic chemicals and fine chemicals products (48.8%): polypropylene, polyethylene, phenols, polyolefins, polyurethane, etc.;
- performance chemicals products (25.5%): elastomers, urethane, polymers, etc. intended in particular for the automotive industry;
- coating materials, films and agrochemicals (14.6%): resins, adhesives, polypropylene films, polyethylene films, industrial films, agrochemicals (insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, etc.) for the food and packaging sectors;
- specialty materials (10.2%): ophthalmic lens materials, photochromic materials, non-woven fibers, dental products, etc. dedicated to the medical and healthcare industry;
- other (0.9%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Japan (52.2%), China (14.5%), Asia (13.6%), America (11.8%), Europe (7.3%) and other (0.6%).
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