Up-cycled Rice-based Plastics®️Presenter: Saya Masuda
Manager, Bioplastics Department
Industrial Materials Business Unit
Mitsui & Co. Plastics Ltd.

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EUR/JPY=140

Corporate Outline

Corporate Name

Mitsui & Co. Plastics Ltd.

Established

August 1947

President

Katsunori Mori

Paid-in Capital

626 million yen≒EUR 4.47 million.

Shareholder

Mitsui & Co., Ltd.(MBK) 100%

Number of Employees

601(As of 1st April 2022)

Consolidated Net Sales(March 2022)

Business Accounts

313,100 million yen≒EUR 2,236 million➢ Supplier ： 1,700➢ Customer : 3,100Japan Domestic network
Hokkaido

Domestic Offices：7
Major stock point：75

Hiroshima
KyushuKansai

Shikoku

Chubu

Tokyo Head OfficeMitsui Group Global network（As of 1st Apr., 2020）

Germany

ShanghaiHong Kong
MexicoNumber ofEmployees(consolidated)

45,624

VietnamThailandNumber of Offices
and Overseas
Trading Subsidiaries

132

Global network
Number of Subsidiaries
and Equity
Accounted Investees

506

65

Countries/regions

Overseas representatives：10 in 6 countries

Bio Plastic List-1 「Biodegradable Polymer」
Resin namePoly Lactic AcidAbbrev
iation

PLA

Plantbased○No.

Modified Poly Lactic Acid

Poly butylene succinate

-PBS

○

partially○

Biodegradable
Polymers
Poly butyrate Adipate Terephalate

PBAT

Brand name

Capacity

Natureworks

Ingeo

158kty2Total Corbion

Luminy75kt○

Revode15kty○

Synterra
TERRAMAC
ECOLOJU(sheet)）
PLABIO(shrink)？

45Changchun Haizheng
Biology Material
SynbraUNITIKA

6

MITSUIBUSHI CHEMICAL7MINIMA

8Asahi kasei

ECORISE

9TorayEcodear10

MITSUIBUSHI CHEMICALPTT MCC Biochem

Bio PBS

20kty○

11BASF

Ecoflex
Ecovio(PLAcompound)

74kty○12Zhuhai Wantong Chemical
Ecobond(King fa group)

20kty

13

CCP

10kty

14

Novamont

15

Tunhe-○○
4kty

MATER-BI

10kty
5kty

PHBH

○16

KanekaPHBH

5kty

Polycaprolactone

PCL-

17

DaicelPLACCELhundres ty

18

Kuraray

EARNESTON

19

NECNecycle

20

DaicelCAFBLO

21

KurehaKUReDUX

Polyglycolic acid-

PGA

hundres ty

Partially○

○

○
○

Other
copolymer of 3-Hydroxybutyrate
Biodegradabl and,e3-Hydroxyhexanoate

Cellulosic biopolymers

Handle byMBP

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Poly lacticacidCompany name4kty

CommentNW is the biggest PLA manufacturer in the world. They are under the plan of increasing another line inTailand. Capicity is expected to around 75kty.
TC started to run the line from Dec in 2018 in Tailand. They are 2nd biggest PLA manufacturer in theworld. TC are planning to run a new 100kty plant in France in 2024.
They started the 15kty new plant in 2019. There are sole sales agent in JAPAN names Daishin PharmaChem.
Unknow their detail.
UNITIKA are developing PLA compound, film ,sheet, fiber and so on.
PLA based SHEET and Shrink. Their product is used for the appliction of point card, bottle-shrink ,envelope window frame and so on.
They Manufacturing biodegradable compounds according to the molding method. Also manufactures
various finished products such as cutlery, bags, and paper laminate products. Widespread adoption bymajor end users EX Starbucks.
Asahi Kasei manufactures the Nonwoven fabric and Fiber made from PLA.
Toray produces PLA compound. Their grade are forcusing on the OA equipment which needs high heat
resistence.
They started new operation from 2016 in Tailand. Capicity is 20kty. Biomass ratio of their Resin is around40~50%. The main application is agricuture mulch film and compost garbage bag.
Physical property or PBAT is similar to PBS. BASF are also supplying the PBAT and PLA compound named"ecovio".

They belongs to King fa group. They have also the compound grade with PLA. They are planning toincrease capicity from 20kty to 40 kty in 2020.
They belongs to Chang chun group in Taiwan. Started PBAT mass production from Aug in 2020. Also○
planing to produce PBS in the future.
Novamont is developing compound grade blended PBAT and thermoplastics starch. GSI Creos is the Sole○sales agent in Japan.
Miyako Kagaku (CHORI group) is sale window in Japan.
PHBH is plants-based biodegradable polymer and good marine biodegradability. It has the OK Marine
Depend on thebiodegradable certification. Started to produce PHBH by 5KMT from 2020. Planning to increase capaicity
casefrom 5KMT to 20 KMT in near future.
It Characterized by good marine biodegradability and biocompatibility. It is also used in many applications
such as plasticizers for modifying polyurethane and hot melts.
○There are many apllication by blending with other biodegradable polymer.
Since the melting point is as low as 60 ° C, they are developing new applications.
○Kuraray is developing as new brand which will be anticipated for fishing application.
High-function bioplastics. It has good Endurance. It has a long time degradablity in Marine for 4 or 5 years.
○Biomass ratio is 50%. Jet-black shiny surface is feature. Planning to increase prodcution capacity within
few years.
Special features is excellent bidegradable in Marine. Daicel is going to get a certificate for "OK MARINE○biodegradable".
Production plant is located in USA. Kureha is only PGA mass production supplier of PGA. Very high heat
resistence and high strength is the charactaristis. It is often used as an excavation material for shale gas.
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Bio Plastic List-2 「Bio based Polymer」
Resin name
Polytrimethyrene
terephalate

Polyamide

Abbr
Planteviati
No. Company name
based
on
PTTPA

○○

Other
Biopolymers

Brand name1

DupontSorona2

ArkemaHiprolon
Rilsan3

EvonikVESTAMID Terra

4

BASF

Ultra Mid S
Balance5DupontZytel RS

6

DSM Engineering
Plastic

ECOVACS

7

TorayAMILAN

CapacityHandl
e byMBPComment
One of the raw material is biomass 1,3-POD. This biopolymer has the physicalproperty of PET and PBT.

50kty

Polyamide 11、 610、1010、1012.
Polyamide 610、1010、1012。
○Polyamide 610.
Polyamide 610、1010.
Polyamide 410.

○Nylon 610.

○DURABIO is plants-based polymer, which made from isosorbide and gricol. This
material has the good properties of both PC and PMMA, as bio -engineering plastic.
Its feature is high gloss appearance and high transparency.

Isosorbide
ploymers-○

8MITSUIBUSHICHEMICAL

DURABIO

5kty

Polyethylene
furanoate

PEF○9Avantium

yxy10ty

PEF (YXY) is a 100% biomass polyester resin polymerized by bio-based FDCA and biobased MEG. PEF is a resin similar to PET and can be an alternative. Bio-PET'S biomass
ratio is 30%, while PEF is 100% so it is expected as a substitute material for bio-PET.
It is also characterized by its superior barrier properties compared to PET.

Bio-PE

Bio-polyethylenePE○10 Braskem

Green PE

200ktyGeen PE is bioethanol based 100% biomass Polyethylene. Braskem is only one
supplier of BIO PE. Toyota Tsusho and Sojitz are Braskem's sale window in Japan.

Bio-PET

Bio-polyethylene
terephthalate○Lotte Chemical
Chung-Shing
11 Far Fastern NewCentury
Bunshiroplantsbased

PET

Bio PET is a biomass ratio of 30%, which is produced by biomass MEG and petroleum
PTA. Bio-PET can be produced by current PET polymerization equipment. AnneloTech
in the United States is developing 100% biomass-derived PET, and Suntory has
invested from Japan.

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Bio Plastic List-3 「Compound with NaturalSource」
Resin nameLimestone

Limestone
compoundAbbr
Planteviati
No. Company namebasedon○1TBM
Minamiuonuma
Biomass Resin

Brand name

CapacityHandle byMBP

LIMEX

TBM is developing compound by limestone as materials.

Rice Resin

Rice Resin sells compound blended with old rice which is seeded in Niigata.
Their product has been adopted as Municipal garbage bags, chopsticks for novelty,
Japan Post Bags and so on.
They are going to increase another a new line by 5kty in KUMAMOTO.

Old rice compound

○

24kty

○

Old rice compound○3

Old ricecompound、Rice○

4

Shiraishi biomass○

5Bio LogiQ

Thermoplastics
starch○6Kuraraythermoplastics
starch, Glycerin○

7

Sankyo ChemicalIndustryThermoplastics
starch○8Kobayashi

Cassave ,Starch○

9AVANIAVANI produces bags by Cassave starch. Compound cannot be sold because themolding know-how is necessary. Just only product can be sold.

Thermoplastics
starch○10JAPAN CORN
STARCH

It is big starch company in Japan and developing product which can be dissolved withbiodegradable resin.

Food , coffee etc○

11 Amica-TerraEggshell○

12 SAMURAI TRADING

Palm palm shell,Chaff○

13 TEXCHEM

TEXa

2.5kty○TEXa product is compounded with PP and non-foodable biomass. It focuses on theinjection molding.

Bamboo､Eggshell,Coffee, Bamboo
grass etc.

○14 SANWA SHOKAI

NEQAS

3.6kty○SANWA SHOKAI is plant equipment manufacturer. They started biomass businessfrom 2010. They have their own patent for Two-axis extruder and also supply biomass
materials as their brand "NEQAS".

Old rice

Thermoplastics
starch, Glycerin

Naturalcompound

StarchEggshell,otherComment

Biopoly Joetsu
Shiraishi Biomass is develping compound blended polyolefin resin with rice husk andrice.
Bio LogiQ's raw materials is starch has been made in American. China plant will start
to produce 5kt from 2020. Even though their starch basically cannot be sold foroutsite it still has possiblity as partner if making a contract.

10kty

PLANTIC○PLANTIC made by starch is similar with EVOH that has barrier funciton. It has been
adopted for food packaging in America and Australia. Multi-sheeted is also based onstarch with solubility so it could be recycling.
This is thermoplastic starch compound. NishinoKinryo is sale window.

Reseam ST○○260kty(eggshellbased)

They are manufacturing a sheet tray that used by compound containing 51% starch
as a raw material. It is used for the inner tray of "Shiroi Koibito".

Amica-Terra has a plant in Taichung of Taiwan.They use various materiasl which isBamboo, Starch and so on.
SAMURAI trading produces the compound PP and traceable eggshell. Their producthas already been applied for injection molding and extrusion molding. They haveconnection with VEGETECH and Kobayashi, and are developing with these companies.

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Business Alliance with Biomass Resin Holdings
From March, 2021
Future Expansion in Japan
https://www.mitsui-plastics.com/en/news/152/
Scope:

Business expansion support
both in Japan and overseas

Production Capacity
10,000ton/year
Because we can grow Rice
everywhere in Japan,
we can have many production
factories and bases.

What is Rice Resin?

“Rice Resin” is a Japanese biomass
plastic made by collecting ricethat is scheduled to be discarded(crushed rice, damaged rice, old rice, etc.)

and upcycling them as a raw material
for rice-based plastic resins.
un-sellable Rice

Rice Resin
It is possible to mix up to 70% rice,which significantly reduces thecontent of petroleum-based plastics.

Up-cycle with our TechnologySustainable Plastic Innovation for Tomorrow

Sold more than 1 million sets ofRice Block Toys for Babies in Japan↑These areRice Resins↓

These toys
contain
51% of Riceas material!

Sustainable Plastic Innovation for Tomorrow※ In addition to these products, we have manufactured a cumulative total of more than 800 Rice Resin products in Japan.

Sustainable Plastic Innovation for Tomorrow

Rice Resin products in the Market

12Rice Resin products in the Market

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Our Aim
1. Rice Resin Sales Expansion
We can export Rice Resin itself as well as Rice Resin products.
We are looking for sales partner and/or end users to expand ourproduct sales.

2. Produce biomass compound with
Polyolefin and organic materials of regional crops
Our strength is “ to compound with organic materials in higher contents”.
Utilizing our Rice Resin technology,
We are good at compounding with polyolefin and organic materials.
Example: Biomass resins has experienced;
wood powder, coffee husks, sesame husks, rice husks, bamboo, cassava, etc

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We are looking for partners and collaborators across the world.

Sustainable Plastic Innovation for Tomorrow

We are looking for partners and collaborators across the world.
Thank you for your time and see you soon!

Further information:

Website:http://www.unido.or.jp/en/technology_db/9968/
https://www.mitsui-plastics.com/biomass/riceresin_lp_en

Contact us:

https://ah111mu2q3.smartrelease.jp/biomass/riceresin_lp_en