June 30, 2014
Since an explosion and fire accident occurred on 9th January, 2014 at Mitsubishi Materials' Yokkaichi Plant, we mourn the loss of lives by this accident and offer our sincere condolences to the bereaved families.
Furthermore, we offer our profound apologies to members of the local community, related authorities, customers and shareholders for the resulting inconvenience.
Previously, we announced our intention to restart operations at the Yokkaichi Plant in a press release entitled “Restarting operations at Yokkaichi Plant,” dated June 26th. According to schedule, we restarted our Yokkaichi Plant operations at 10:55am today, June 30th.