Sumitomo Chemical Newly Designates Three Products as Sumika Sustainable Solutions in Recognition of Their Contribution to Achieving a Sustainable Society

Jul. 19, 2021

Sumitomo Chemical (“the Company”) has newly designated three of its Group’s products as Sumika Sustainable Solutions in the Company’s six-year-old initiative to contribute to building a sustainable society. Sumika Sustainable Solutions, which now include 57 products and technologies, represent approximately 463 billion yen in terms of sales revenue in fiscal 2020.

The newly designated products are as follows: Cathode materials and their precursors, which  significantly improve the performance of lithium-ion secondary batteries; polyolefin thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) for airbag covers, which eliminate the need for the design surface painting process; and heat storage plastic materials HEATORAGE^® and COMFORMER^®, which can be used in residential building materials and textile products such as clothing and bedclothes to maintain appropriate temperatures inside houses, clothes, or blankets. These products contribute to energy saving and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

Since 2016, Sumitomo Chemical has been designating its Group products and technologies that contribute to the mitigation of climate change and reduction of environmental impact as Sumika Sustainable Solutions, subject to third-party verification, and promoting various initiatives for the development and widespread deployment of such products and technologies. The Company aims to double the sales revenue from Sumika Sustainable Solutions to 560 billion yen by the end of fiscal 2021, the final year of the Company’s current Three-Year Corporate Business Plan.

The Sumitomo Chemical Group will continue to create and provide solutions that can contribute to achieving a sustainable society by capitalizing on a wide array of technologies that it has cultivated as a diversified chemical company operating in extensive areas of business.

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Products newly designated as Sumika Sustainable Solutions

Solutions	Features	Contributions to SDGs
Cathode materials and their precursors for lithium-ion secondary batteries (Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd./ Tanaka Chemical Corp.) (Image: Cathode materials)	These cathode materials and precursors significantly improve the performance of lithium-ion secondary batteries. Widespread deployment of hybrid vehicles equipped with batteries using these materials will help reduce GHG emissions.
TPEs for non-painted airbag covers	Polyolefin thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs), offering superb appearance quality, eliminate the need for the design surface painting process and contribute to the reduction of the use of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and CO2 emissions.
HEATORAGE® for building materials and COMFORMER® for textile products	HEATORAGE® and COMFORMER® are made of a heat storage plastic material that is designed to absorb and release heat in specific temperature ranges. Used in building materials and textile products, these products maintain appropriate temperatures inside houses and clothes and contribute to the reduction of environmental impact.

 

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