It becomes commonly recognized that the natural resources are finite. The mission of Chemical Resources Laboratory is to carry out a research to improve the human life without contaminating the environments through the sophisticated utilization of the natural resources on the earth. The time when the mass-production and the mass-consumption are praised has passed and the efficient use and recycle of natural resources become an urgent issue.

Chemical Resources Laboratory has been established in 1937 affiliated to Tokyo Institute of Technology anticipating a demand of such an age and grown through the research on theory and application of the chemical utilization technologies of natural resources.

At the present, Chemical Resources Laboratory has 13 divisions, 1 research installation covering wide range of areas from basic to applied or developmental research besides common facilities and an administrative office. The faculties of Chemical Resources Laboratory are also lecturing and giving research guidance to doctoral or master level students under the cooperation with the interdisciplinary graduate school of science and engineering of Tokyo Institute of Technology.