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Breaking: 1 Dead, 1 Injured as Chemical Plant Explosion Occurs

Kaiyang Talks about Chemical Industry 2025-08-08 14:03:08

At around 4:30 a.m. on August 7, the Kantou Denka Industrial Shibukawa Factory in Shibukawa City, Gunma Prefecture, Japan, received a 119 call reporting that "some buildings in the factory have exploded."

According to the prefectural police and the factory, a male employee (28 years old) was taken to the hospital but was confirmed dead, and another person was injured. The explosion occurred at the Kanto Electrochemical Shibukawa Factory, which is known to produce fluorinated gases. The fire spread to the surrounding area due to the explosion. The prefectural police and fire department are investigating the circumstances and causes of the accident. The site is located at a corner of the Kan-Etsu Expressway Shibukawa Ikaho Interchange, about 15 kilometers north of the interchange where many factories are concentrated.

Kanto Denka Kogyo Co., Ltd. is a leading Japanese manufacturer of fluorine-containing electronic chemical products, enjoying a high international reputation. Its fluorine-containing specialty gases used in semiconductor manufacturing include etching gases such as carbon tetrafluoride and hexafluorobutadiene, cleaning gases such as nitrogen trifluoride, hexafluoroethane, and chlorine trifluoride, as well as vapor deposition gases such as tungsten hexafluoride. It is understood that the Shibukawa plant in Japan, where the recent accident occurred, mainly produces etching gases including nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), tungsten hexafluoride (WF6), and hexafluorobutadiene (C4F6).

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Breaking: 1 Dead, 1 Injured as Chemical Plant Explosion Occurs

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