April 9, 2018 Sumitomo Chemical has newly established a Sustainability Promotion Committee, an enhanced body of its former CSR Promotion Committee, to strengthen its Group-wide integrated initiatives toward achieving a sustainable society through business activities. As represented by such global initiatives as the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of the Sustainable Development Goals [...]

February 13, 2018 Sumitomo Chemical has submitted applications for registration of its new fungicide INDIFLIN™ (ISO common name: inpyrfluxam) to regulatory authorities in Japan, Argentina, the United States, Canada and Brazil. INDIFLIN™, a novel fungicide active ingredient discovered by Sumitomo Chemical, belongs to a class of compounds known as succinate dehydrogenase inhibitors (SDHI) that have [...]

Global Collaboration Accelerates the Advancement of Seed-applied Technology to Bring New Innovation to Growers. DES MOINES, Iowa, and WALNUT CREEK, Calif., Dec. 4, 2017 – DuPont and Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited announced today a global agreement to collaborate on the development, registration and commercialization of seed-applied technologies for use in key crops around the world. [...]

November 22, 2017 Sumitomo Chemical has acquired 82.9% of shares in Botanical Resources Australia Pty Ltd and its affiliated companies (the BRA Group) from the shareholders and made the BRA Group, a major supplier of insecticidal compounds pyrethrins, a consolidated subsidiary. Pyrethrins are insecticidal compounds extracted from the pyrethrum flower, which have the same basic [...]

November 17, 2017 Sumitomo Chemical has agreed with Nufarm Limited, a leading crop protection company in Australia, to extend their global collaboration agreements. In April 2010, Sumitomo Chemical entered into a strategic business tie-up with Nufarm through shares acquisition. Ever since, the two companies have jointly engaged in an array of business programs in such [...]

October 17, 2017 Sumitomo Chemical has decided to set up animal feed analysis capabilities anew at the Latin America Research Center, operated by its Group company Sumitomo Chemical Brazil, which will provide technical support services for feed millers who are customers of Sumitomo Chemical’s methionine. Starting in the first quarter of FY2018, the Research Center [...]

This fiscal year, Sumitomo Chemical has 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 value creation story in a way that is easy to understand for shareholders and other investors, as well as a [...]

September 21, 2017 Valent U.S.A. LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sumitomo Chemical, has completed construction and started operation of a new field testing station, the Midwest Agricultural Research Center, in the US state of Illinois. At the new facility, field testing will be conducted on crop protection products for row crops such as soybean, corn, [...]

June 27, 2017 Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited and Bayer announced today that the companies have reached a new agreement on the development of fungicidal mixture products aimed at controlling soybean diseases in Brazil. These products will utilize Sumitomo Chemical’s novel fungicide in combination with established Bayer fungicides to create a potent new means of combating [...]