Sumitomo Chemical to Participate in K 2022, the World’s No.1 Trade Fair for Plastics and Rubber
The Sumitomo Chemical Group will exhibit at K 2022, one of the world’s largest plastics and rubber exhibitions, held every three years in Düsseldorf, Germany. At this year’s event, Group companies will exhibit for the first time a test vehicle…
Sumitomo Chemical Forms New Business Services Entity to Support The Valent Group of Companies
SAN RAMON, Calif., and LIBERTYVILLE, Ill, Oct. 3, 2022 – Sumitomo Chemical Co. Inc. (SCC), parent company of Valent U.S.A and Valent Biosciences, today announced a new entity called Valent North America that will provide enterprise business services across the…
Valent BioSciences Sustainability Report
At the core of everything that we do at Mycorrhizal Applications, both as an individual company and as part of the Valent Group of Companies (VGC), is our overall goal to increase the sustainability of plant cultivation, crop production, and…
Valent Sustainability Efforts
Valent has held a long-standing commitment to sustainability. Our approach is linked to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which address the major challenges facing society such as poverty, food security, and the environment. We have identified five priority…
Sumitomo Chemical Introduces Pilot-Scale Mechanical Waste Processing Facility in Bid to Develop Material Recycling Business Targeted at Automotive Applications
Sumitomo Chemical today announced that it will introduce a pilot-scale mechanical waste processing facility in an effort to develop a material recycling business using waste plastics collected from end-of-life automobiles. The Company will start providing samples of recycled plastic material…
Sumitomo Chemical to Build a New High-Purity Semiconductor Process Chemical Manufacturing Plant in the U.S.
Sumitomo Chemical has decided to establish a new company in Texas in the U.S. through Dongwoo Fine-Chem Co., Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary located in South Korea, and to build at the company a high-purity semiconductor process chemical manufacturing plant. The…
Notice of the introduction video of Carbon Footprint of Product calculation tool CFP-TOMO
Sumitomo Chemical has released an introduction video of CFP-TOMOTM, a system that can easily and efficiently calculate the carbon footprint of product (CFP). We have developed our proprietary CFP calculation tool CFP-TOMOTM, and have completed CFP calculations for all of…
Valent BioSciences Announces Significant R&D Investments
LIBERTYVILLE, Illinois, August 16, 2022 – To promote its industry leadership in biorational and biostimulant product innovation, Valent BioSciences LLC has announced significant investments at several of its key research and development facilities. These enhancements are in addition to the recently…
Sumitomo Chemical Newly Designates Ten Products and Technologies as Sumika Sustainable Solutions
Sumitomo Chemical has newly designated 10 of its Group’s products and technologies as Sumika Sustainable Solutions in its initiative to achieve a sustainable society, which marks its seventh anniversary this year. Sumika Sustainable Solutions, now including a total of 66…
Sustainability Matters in the Battle for Talent
Since the pandemic began, major pest management companies have reported turnover rates of 60% or even higher. Much of this turnover is happening across the younger generation. Most newly hired technicians in our industry are 25 or younger, making them…