The manufacturing plant produces a plastic resin (m-xylylene adipamide) which is a semi-crystalline polymer derived from the polycondensation of m-xylylene diamine (MXDA) and adipic acid. The polymerization technology of this resin has been licensed to MAP by Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company (MGC). MGC pioneered the sophisticated technology behind the process that separated high purity m-xylene and manufactured MXDA used as the backbone of this unique polymer. MGC has a long history in the development of a protected MX-Nylon process and patented MX-Nylon grades.

1940 -- Wallace Hume Carothers of the DuPont Company prepares a nylon using the para-isomer of xylylene diamine (three isomers of xylylene diamine are possible – ortho, para and meta).

1956 -- F. G. Lum of the California Research Corporation publishes that Nylon-MXD6 is a semi-crystalline polymer. Research, however, was limited to the laboratory because the meta-isomer of xylylene diamine was not a commercial product although mixtures of p-xylylene diamine (PXDA) and MXDA were available.

1968 -- m-xylene, which was essentially free of p-xylene, becomes available when MGC develops a patented commercial process.

1971 -- Production of MXDA started by MGC.

1984 -- MGC commences production of MX-Nylon (N-MXD6) in Niigata Factory.

1984 to 2003 -- MGC continues to expand production facilities in Japan and extend facilities to the United States in order to directly support customers and meet increasing market demand.