TOKYO - Mitsui Chemicals has announced plans to expand its production facilities for meltblown nonwovens at its wholly owned subsidiary Sunrex Industry Co., Ltd.
The move comes as an effort to respond to growing demand for industrial-use meltblown nonwovens, which will see the Mitsui Chemicals Group’s overall production capacity for meltblown nonwovens increase by 30%.
The capacity increase is also part of the company's new Vision 2030 Long-Term Business Plan, in which Mitsui will be positioning nonwovens as a growth business under Life & Healthcare Solutions in the revised portfolio. It is therefore looking to supply nonwovens not only as sanitary materials for the likes of disposable diapers but also as industrial materials for a variety of applications.
Products targeted at this sector will include Tafnel, which can be used as an oil-adsorbing material, a structural material for automotive seats and a civil engineering material; and Syntex, a structural material for filters and masks which, consisting of 'nano' superfine fibres, is expected to meet with use in products such as highly advanced precision filters.
The new capacity is expected to be online by April 2023.
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