Sumitomo Chemical to Build an Organizational Structure for Carbon Neutrality
Sumitomo Chemical has decided to establish a Carbon Neutral Strategy Council and a Carbon Neutral Strategy Cross-Functional Team on February 1, 2021, in order to promote and formulate the Sumitomo Chemical Group’s strategies for achieving carbon neutrality by 2050.
Message from the President Congratulating Our Designation As a CDP A-List 2020 Company
A message from Keiichi Iwata, Representative Director & President, on our designation on the A list 2020 by CDP.
Sumitomo Chemical Supports Plastic Recycling Education in Nigeria
Sumitomo Chemical made a donation of 50,000 USD to a project called “Clean Our World” (COW) initiated by Oando Foundation*1 in Nigeria. The COW project aims to promote education on plastic recycling among primary school children. In Nigeria, the company has…
President’s Message “To All Members of the Sumitomo Chemical Group”
Hello, everyone. As COVID-19 continues to rage across the world, I would like to start by offering my deepest sympathies to all employees and their family members who have unfortunately caught the coronavirus.
Sumitomo Chemical Receives CDP’s Highest Rating in Corporate Climate Action and Water Security Action
Sumitomo Chemical (“the Company”) has been named on CDP’s “Climate A List 2020” and “Water Security A List 2020” as a company recognized for its particularly excellent activities to address climate change and water security, including target setting, actions and…
Sumitomo Chemical Launches SynBio Hub, a New Organization in the US, to Accelerate Next-Generation Business Utilizing Synthetic Biology
Sumitomo Chemical has decided to establish a new organization, SynBio Hub, within the Biorational Research Center of Valent BioSciences LLC (VBC), a U.S. subsidiary of Sumitomo Chemical in Illinois. By setting up this organization tasked to build technologies using synthetic…
Sumitomo Chemical Joins “IP Open Access Declaration Against COVID-19”
Sumitomo Chemical announced that it has joined the “Intellectual Property Open Access Declaration Against COVID-19” (hereinafter referred to as “the Declaration”). The gist of the Declaration is that participants will not assert any intellectual property rights under certain conditions against…
Sumitomo Chemical Receives Gold Medal in EcoVadis Sustainability Assessment
Sumitomo Chemical has received a Gold medal* in a sustainability assessment by EcoVadis (headquartered in France), an award recognizing companies whose performance is in the top 5% of all companies rated. Established in 2007, EcoVadis is a performance rating agency…
Sumitomo Chemical Receives the Grand Prize in the 52nd Annual JCIA Technology Awards for its Propylene Oxide Technology
Sumitomo Chemical has received the Grand Prize in the 52nd Annual JCIA Technology Awards from the Japan Chemical Industry Association (JCIA) for its technology that enabled “the development and commercialization of a process for manufacturing propylene oxide (PO) using cumene,…
Sumitomo Chemical Announces Consolidated Financial Results for FY2019
The economic condition outside Japan during the fiscal 2019 has shown clear signs of overall slowdown as evidenced by bleak outlook on the US economy, which has been driving the global economy for some time, and by the changes in…