ITOCHU Corporation is a leading Japanese sogo shosha (general trading and investment company) with roots dating to 1858. Headquartered in Japan and listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, it operates a global network spanning Asia, the Americas, and Europe. The group manages a diversified portfolio across textiles, machinery, metals and minerals, energy, chemicals, food, ICT, real estate, and logistics.
In the chemical value chain, ITOCHU’s Energy & Chemicals operations trade and distribute basic and specialty chemicals, petrochemicals, polymers and resins, fertilizers, and pharmaceutical raw materials. The company supports producers and downstream users with procurement, marketing, logistics, risk management, and structured finance. It also participates in manufacturing and processing through subsidiaries and joint ventures, including plastics compounding and performance materials. ITOCHU is active in projects and supply chains linked to energy transition and circularity, such as bio-based materials, recycling initiatives, battery-related materials, and emerging ammonia and hydrogen carriers. Its broad market access and integrated services enable end-to-end solutions from feedstocks to finished chemical products across major industrial regions.
chemXplore tracks 2 projects involving ITOCHU, of which 2 are active.
ITOCHU's role on them: Owner and Offtaker.
2 new construction.
Contractors, licensors, and offtakers are recorded on all 2 of them For subscribers
Targeting: Hydrogen (2), Ammonia (1), Carbon dioxide (1), Methane (1)
FEED covers electrolyzers, ASUs, green ammonia loop, desalination, >100,000 t storage and port pipelines; FEED may convert to EPC subject to FID; projected capex ~$1.8bn.
Will deliver 2,000 tons of 100% Neat SAF over the next year, use co‑processing with ISCC EU certification, join a carrier carbon‑reduction service, and complete a dedicated production line within the year.
FEED awarded for Norfolk e‑NG plant using ~250 MW electrolysis to produce synthetic methane for export to Japan; FID targeted 2027 and commercial operations by 2030.
Raises national operator's ACG stake to 35.3%; transaction met legal and contractual requirements; first free gas production from ACG fields begins this year.
Share in ACG rises from 31.65% to 35.3% after purchase of a 3.65% participating interest; transaction executed under legal, contractual and SOCAR internal rules.
The Live Oak project aims to produce e-NG in Nebraska, targeting 250 MW electrolysis and 75 ktpa methanation, with operations by 2030, exporting to Japan for carbon-neutral goals.
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