Dec. 23, 2022

Business & Products

Sumitomo Chemical Completes Construction of Pilot Facility for Acrylic Resin Chemical Recycling
Accelerating the development of a circular system for plastics through cross-industry collaboration

Dec. 14, 2022

Sustainability

Sumitomo Chemical Receives Highest Rating in CDP's Assessment of Corporate Action on Climate Change and Water Security

Oct. 31, 2022

Announcements

Sustainability Data Book 2022 has been published

Oct. 6, 2022

Announcements

Sumitomo Chemical to Participate in K 2022, the World's No.1 Trade Fair for Plastics and Rubber

Sep. 21, 2022

Business & Products

Sumitomo Chemical Introduces Pilot-Scale Mechanical Waste Processing Facility in Bid to Develop Material Recycling Business Targeted at Automotive Applications
Accelerating Efforts to Recycle Waste Plastics from End-of-Life Automobiles

Aug. 24, 2022

Sustainability

Notice of the introduction video of Carbon Footprint of Product calculation tool CFP-TOMO^TM

Aug. 4, 2022

Sustainability

Sumitomo Chemical Newly Designates Ten Products and Technologies as Sumika Sustainable Solutions
Annual sales revenue of the Solutions reached 621 billion yen, achieving initial target

Jul. 6, 2022

Business & Products

Shiseido, SEKISUI CHEMICAL, and Sumitomo Chemical to Collaborate in Building a Circular Economy for Plastic Cosmetics Containers

Jun. 30, 2022

R&D

National Institute of Technology Asahikawa College and Sumitomo Chemical to Accelerate the Commercialization of Turquoise Hydrogen Production Process

Jun. 1, 2022

Sustainability

Sumitomo Chemical to Participate in a "Conservation Site for Human-Nature Symbiosis" Certification Trial Program by the Ministry of the Environment for the Miyoshima Area at its Ehime Works

May. 31, 2022

Business & Products

Sumitomo Chemical and Newlight Technologies Announce Joint Development Project to Create Automotive and Textile Materials Using a Carbon-Negative^*1 Microbe-Produced Biomaterial Called AirCarbon^TM

May. 20, 2022

Business & Products

Sumitomo Chemical Receives the Grand Prize in the 54th Annual JCIA
Technology Awards for its Technology for Converting Hydrogen Chloride into Chlorine

May. 13, 2022

R&D

Sumitomo Chemical and OOYOO's Joint Project to Develop and Demonstrate CO₂ Separation and Capture System from Factory Exhaust Gas Using Separation Membrane Selected as a NEDO Green Innovation Fund Project

Apr. 27, 2022

Sustainability

Sumitomo Chemical Receives Gold Medal in EcoVadis Sustainability Assessment for the Third Consecutive Year
Strengthened sustainability efforts resulted in the overall score improvement

Apr. 25, 2022

R&D

Sumitomo Chemical Enters into Equity Participation and Business Alliance Agreement with Myoridge to Promote the Use of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Therapy

Apr. 19, 2022

R&D

JERA and Sumitomo Chemical Start a Demonstration Project to Develop a Low Environmental Impact Recycling Process for Electric Vehicle Lithium-ion Batteries

Apr. 12, 2022

Business & Products

Sumitomo Chemical and PILOT to Jointly Develop New Technology for Horizontal Recycling of Plastic Products with Special Ink

Apr. 11, 2022

Business & Products

Sumitomo Chemical Completes Construction of Pilot Facility to Produce Renewable Ethanol-Based Ethylene for Environmentally-Sustainable Polyolefin
A New Initiative toward Achieving a Circular Economy

Mar. 17, 2022

Sustainability

Sumitomo Chemical Engages in the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) Forum
Advancing Green Transformation and enhancing nature-related information disclosure

Feb. 28, 2022

Sustainability

Sumitomo Chemical Receives a Minister of the Environment Award (Silver Award) in the Environmentally Sustainable Corporations Section of the Ministry of the Environment's ESG Finance Awards Japan

Feb. 21, 2022

R&D

Sumitomo Chemical and Microwave Chemical to Jointly Develop Energy-Saving and Highly Efficient Hydrogen Production Process to Help Achieve Carbon Neutrality by 2050

Feb. 18, 2022

R&D

Sumitomo Chemical's Projects to Develop Chemical Recycling Technologies Selected for NEDO's Green Innovation Fund Project

Feb. 18, 2022

R&D

Sumitomo Chemical and Maruzen Petrochemical's Chemical Recycling Technology Project Selected as a NEDO Green Innovation Fund Project

Feb. 7, 2022

Sustainability

Sumitomo Chemical's Transition Loans for Reducing GHG Emissions Selected as First METI Climate Transition Finance Model Project in the Chemical Sector

Jan. 19, 2022

Announcements

President's video message has been posted to congratulate our designation as the A List 2021 company by CDP.