Ethylene plant - Ethylene plant

Japanese: エチレンプラント - えちれんぷらんと
Ethylene plant - Ethylene plant

...At this time, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) decided that the Japanese petrochemical industry was overly competitive, and in 1967 set a 300,000-ton standard for new ethylene production facilities in order to streamline the proliferation of petrochemical companies and foster a small number of internationally competitive companies. MITI hoped that this standard would naturally reduce the number of companies making new capital investments, but instead it stimulated capital investment aimed at the survival of each company, resulting in an unprecedented capital investment boom from the late 1960s to the early 1970s, with nine 300,000-ton ethylene plants being built one after another. During this period, Japanese companies already had sufficient technological capabilities, so international technology was widely used in ethylene plants as well as in plastic and synthetic fiber raw material production plants. ...

*Some of the terminology used in reference to "ethylene plants" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…この時期,通産省は日本の石油化学工業は過当競争をしすぎていると判断したため,67年に石油化学企業の乱立を整理し,国際競争力のある少数の企業を育成するため,新設エチレン生産設備に対する30万t基準を打ち出した。この基準の設定により,自然に新たな設備投資を行う企業数は減るものと通産省は期待したが,逆にこの基準は各企業の生残りを目的とする設備投資を刺激することとなり,1960年代後半から70年代初期にかけて空前の設備投資ブームが生じ,9基の30万tエチレンプラントがつぎつぎに建設された。この時期の設備投資では,すでに日本企業も十分な技術力を有していたため,エチレンプラントをはじめとして,プラスチック,合成繊維原料生産プラントにも広範に国際技術が使われるようになった。…

※「エチレンプラント」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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