MCCLS: Mitsui Chemicals crop protection ingredients
Mitsui Chemicals Crop & Life Solutions: dinotefuran, penthiopyrad, TENEBENAL and other crop protection active ingredients, plus non-farm pest control.
Mitsui Chemicals Crop & Life Solutions (MCCLS) is a Tokyo-based subsidiary of Mitsui Chemicals working in crop protection and non-agricultural pest control.
Japan · Crop protection company of Mitsui Chemicals
Mitsui Chemicals Crop & Life Solutions, known as MCCLS, is wholly owned by Mitsui Chemicals and based in Tokyo. The company was established in 2003. It is organised in two businesses: Crop Solutions, which serves agriculture, and Life Solutions, which covers pest control outside farming, including insecticides for non-agricultural use and insect and termite control in buildings. MCCLS conducts research as well as commercial activities in both areas.
Crop Solutions covers research, development, manufacturing and sales of solutions against pests, diseases and weeds. Its active ingredients include dinotefuran, a systemic insecticide, milbemectin, an acaricide of natural origin used against mites, the fungicides penthiopyrad and hymexazol, and etofenprox and flupyrimin. The range also includes TENEBENAL, based on broflanilide, an insecticide for lepidopteran pests and leaf beetles. On the farm these ingredients arrive in formulated products, often sold by local companies under their own names.
Size of the business
MCCLS reports approximately 850 employees on a consolidated basis, covering the company and its subsidiaries rather than the whole Mitsui Chemicals group. Its R&D bases are in Mobara, Yasu and Omuta.
Is MCCLS the entire Mitsui Chemicals group?
No. It is a wholly owned subsidiary specialising in Crop Solutions and Life Solutions.
Is every Life Solutions product intended for crops?
No. Life Solutions covers pest control outside agriculture, including insect and termite control in buildings.
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