January 17, 2019 Sumitomo Chemical has joined the Alliance to End Plastic Waste (“AEPW”) as one of the founding members. AEPW is a new alliance of global companies formed to advance solutions to eliminate plastic waste in the environment, especially in the ocean. AEPW, launched on January 16, 2019, is a not-for-profit organization composed of global [...]

December 11, 2018 Sumitomo Chemical has decided to relocate its Tokyo Head Office in the latter half of 2021. The new premises will be located within an office building connected directly to Nihombashi Station, a subway station served by three subway lines, including the Toei Asakusa Line which provides direct access to both the Haneda [...]

November 28, 2018 We are pleased to announce the renewal website of Sumitomo Chemical on November 28, 2018. In this renewal, we have aimed to make the website easier to use and more comprehensible for users. In addition, we have made it easier to use on smartphones.  We will continue to enrich the content and [...]

November 5, 2018 Sumitomo Chemical has recently taken a concrete step in furthering its Groupwide employee participation initiative, "Our Sustainable Tree 3.0," aimed at achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The latest initiative was conducted for a period of 100 days up to October 4, during which the Company received 7,700 posts (a total number [...]

October 29, 2018 Sumitomo Chemical (“the Company”), including its Group companies, was recognized as a United Nations Global Compact LEAD ("LEAD") company on the occasion of the United Nations Global Compact Leaders Summit 2018 that was held in September at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. This recognition is a testament to the Company's [...]

On October 22-24 2018, the SCAE Marketing, Sales, Regulatory teams along with Valent BioSciences and MGK colleagues attended the Annual Biocontrol Industry Meeting in Basel (Switzerland). Valent BioSciences and Sumitomo Chemical are long platinum sponsor of this successful event. For the third year, Sumitomo Chemical Agro Europe had a booth in the new main [...]

Last fiscal year, Sumitomo Chemical adjusted the positioning of its annual report and CSR Report, reorganizing them as an integrated report, which is Sumitomo Chemical’s new Annual Report. With the aim of communicating its sustained growth in a way that is easy to understand for shareholders and other investors, as well as a broad array [...]

October 18, 2018 Sumitomo Chemical ("the Company") has recently gained approval from the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) about the Company's Group-wide greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets. Sumitomo Chemical is the first among diversified chemical companies in the world to have acquired the approval. The SBTi is a global organization of collaborative initiatives, comprised of [...]

October 4, 2018 Sumitomo Chemical has today held a completion ceremony for its new production line of feed additive methionine at its Ehime Works in Niihama City, Ehime Prefecture, Japan. The amount of investment in the new manufacturing facility represents one of the largest ever made in Japan by the Company. Following several trial runs, [...]

27 September 2018 – Sumitomo Chemical and Nufarm Limited announced today that both companies have signed an agreement on the novel fungicide compound ‘metyltetraprole,’ for key European markets. This new compound for disease control in cereals, discovered by Sumitomo Chemical, will be trademarked “Pavecto®.” Both companies have agreed to explore distribution of Sumitomo Chemical’s Pavecto®-based [...]