Mitsui Chemicals adds elastomer capacity

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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

2 R4 I. R# t" m/ C4 oSingapore - Mitsui Chemicals announced production augmentation of Tafmer, a high performance elastomer, at its wholly-owned subsidiary Mitsui Elastomers Singapore (MELS) production facilities in Singapore. The 2.5 billion yen investment will increase capacity 8,000 tons/year for the elastomer and add warehouse and logistic facilities. Completion is scheduled for October 2013. Tafmer, positioned as one of the group’s five world-leading businesses, is a flexible, lightweight elastomer with wide applications in automotive, industrial and packaging material industries as an enhancer to improve characteristics of thermoplastic resins or as a base material in flexible products.