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Mitsubishi Chemical

Mitsubishi Chemical is a Japanese chemicals company offering materials, products, and related services across a broad range of industrial and consumer applications.

Last updated September 25, 2026

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Overview

Mitsubishi Chemical (三菱ケミカル株式会社) is a Japanese chemicals company whose official website presents it as part of the Mitsubishi Chemical Group. The supplied company information identifies Mitsubishi Chemical Group Corporation as a group company and directs visitors to the group website for some corporate information. The evidence does not establish a founding date, founder, headquarters, or the company’s precise ownership and listing structure, so those details are not specified here. The company’s product catalogue spans industrial and petrochemical products, polymers and resins, functional chemicals, films and processed plastic products, carbon materials and composites, and materials for information technology, displays, batteries, and semiconductors. It also lists environmental and water-related solutions, food materials, healthcare-related offerings, analytical services, engineering, processing, and logistics. The catalogue indicates applications in areas such as automotive and aerospace, machinery, electronics, packaging, construction, energy, agriculture, food, and healthcare. The official corporate information page reports figures for the end of March 2018: 40,290 consolidated employees, revenue of ¥2.5481 trillion, and 358 group companies including affiliates. These are historical figures, not current operating totals. The company website provides product information, technical topics, safety data sheets, product-specific inquiry contacts, and links to domestic locations and group companies. The available evidence supports describing Mitsubishi Chemical as a broad-based materials and chemicals business, but does not establish a particular market position, current executive team, or geographic sales footprint.

History

The supplied evidence does not provide a founding date, founder, or a narrative of Mitsubishi Chemical’s early history. It identifies the company as Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (三菱ケミカル株式会社) and links it to Mitsubishi Chemical Group Corporation. As a result, a precise account of the company’s origins or corporate formation cannot be responsibly reconstructed from these sources alone. A dated snapshot of the company’s scale is available on its corporate information page. For the end of March 2018, that page reports 40,290 consolidated employees, revenue of ¥2.5481 trillion, and 358 group companies including affiliates. These figures describe the group information presented at that date and should not be treated as current statistics. The company’s current website functions as a product and corporate information portal. It links to group and domestic-location information, organizational information, product-specific sites, safety data sheets, and inquiry contacts. Its product catalogue shows a wide scope: from industrial chemicals, petrochemical feedstocks, resins, and functional materials to carbon-fiber composites, electronic and semiconductor materials, water-related products, food and healthcare-related offerings, and technical or business services. The breadth of this catalogue establishes the company’s materials and chemicals focus, but the evidence does not document when individual businesses or products were launched, nor does it support a detailed account of acquisitions, leadership changes, or international expansion.

  • Corporate information records group scale at the end of March 2018

Products and positioning

A broad-based chemicals and materials supplier with products and services spanning industrial, electronic, environmental, consumer, and other application areas. The supplied evidence does not establish a formal brand-positioning statement.

  • Semiconductor materials

    Listed as a product category within the information, electronics, display, and battery materials section of the company catalogue.

  • Carbon materials and composites

    The catalogue includes carbon materials, carbon fiber, and composite materials.

  • Polymers, resins, and functional chemicals

    The catalogue lists general-purpose and engineering plastics, elastomers, acrylic resins, and high-performance chemicals.

Recent events

  • Mitsubishi Chemical agrees to acquire Gelest[5]

    Reported:

    Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, through subsidiary Mitsubishi Chemical America, entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Gelest Intermediate Holdings, the parent of Gelest. The transaction was expected to be completed in 2020.

  • Mitsubishi Chemical acquires Gelest[6]

    Reported:

    Mitsubishi Chemical America acquired U.S.-based chemicals and materials group Gelest from New Mountain Capital. The financial terms were not disclosed.

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