MCGC Ibaraki Plant
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Mitsubishi Chemical Group Corporation
Refining and Chemicals Operations
314-0102
17-1 Towada, Kamisu-shi
https://www.mcgc.com/english/group/outline/mcc/location/plant.html

The former Mitsubishi Chemical ethylene plant in Kashima is now known as the Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation Ibaraki Plant (三菱ケミカル株式会社 茨城事業所)[1]:

  • The Ibaraki Plant, located in the Kashima Coastal Industrial Zone, has produced ethylene and other petrochemicals since 1971
  • While Mitsubishi Chemical has restructured its petrochemical business and formed new joint ventures (such as Kashima Complex LLP with ENEOS), the site and its assets-including the ethylene facility-remain under the ownership of Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation.

  • The plant is still commonly referred to as the "Ibaraki Plant," and this is the name used in official documents and press releases.

Mitsubishi Chemical has a steam cracker in Kashima with an ethylene production capacity of 564,000 mt/year. It shut one steam cracker there in 2014 -- which has an ethylene production capacity of 375,000 mt/year -- following a sluggish petrochemical demand in the country. JXTG* currently supplies naphtha via pipeline from the 197,100 b/d Kashima refinery to Mitsubishi Chemical's steam cracker in the Kashima complex. JXTG's Kashima refinery also has a 35,100 b/d condensate splitter[2].

*Now ENEOS

References

  1. Perplexity A.I. Pro Search, 26th Apr 2025.
  2. SP Global, 7th Nov 2019, Japan's JXTG, Mitsubishi Chemical to form JV in Kashima to optimize operations.

 

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