Mitsubishi to execute structural changes at Kashima plant

• Expansion of the No.2 Ethylene Plant by approximately fifty thousand (50,000) tons per annum;
• Installment of facilities to keep the operation of the Olefins Conversion Unit (annual production capacity of propylene: one hundred fifty thousand (150,000) tons); and;

(iii)       Relocation and installment of relevant pipes.

The above measures are scheduled to be completed at the periodic maintenance in 2013 and are estimated to be an investment of nine billion eight hundred Japanese Yen (JPY9,800,000,000) in total. 

Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (MCC)