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Specialty Chemicals
Mitsui Chemicals expands in the U.S.
by Jean-François Tremblay
April 2, 2018
| A version of this story appeared in
Volume 96, Issue 14
Mitsui Chemicals will build a 6,000-metric-ton-per-year line at its Ohio subsidiary Advanced Composites to produce Milastomer, a thermoplastic elastomer made from olefinic rubber and resin. Milastomer can replace polyvinyl chloride and vulcanized rubber in applications including car interiors. Separately, Mitsui bought a 30% stake in B9Creations, a South Dakota-based producer of three-dimensional printers used in the jewelry industry. The Japanese firm plans to use B9Creations technology in the dental market. In 2013, Mitsui paid $576 million for Heraeus’s dental materials business.
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