Sumitomo Chemical Co’s history is said to have initiated since 1913 when the company’s ancestors called the House of Sumitomo which erected the fertilizer unit for manufacturing Calcium Super-Phosphorous fertilizers using Sulphur Dioxide release techniques for diminishing pollution from the mine at the Besshi Copper Mines in the region of Ehime of Japan. Besides promoting preservation of environment through averting the release of pollution in the atmosphere, the company managed to contribute towards improving agricultural crops also. This was the gateway to Sumitomo Chemical Co’s business enterprise.

 

The company is being led by the President Hiromasa Yonekura. Sumitomo Chemical, by generating latest and useful techniques and products maintains working towards improving the standards of living for people and lessen the problems in the society. The company is known to cater the basic materials to different industries such as consumer goods to hi-tech products. The product range of the company includes: organic and inorganic industrial chemicals, composite materials like alumina fibers, polymethyl methacrylate resins and sheets as well as aluminum.

 

The company’s pharmaceutical business began from organic synthesis which is the technique that was chiefly utilized for dyestuffs before the company utilized it for producing first synthetic medicines of Japan. The pharmaceutical business of the company is managed by Sumitomo Pharmaceuticals Company which mainly producing and marketing prescription drugs and another entity named Nihon Medi-physics Co Ltd takes care of producing and marketing diagnostics.

 

The products line of the company includes:

 

• Pharmaceutical Synthetic products
• Organic & Inorganic Industrial Chemicals
• Alumina products
• Methyl Methacrylate products
• Optical Materials
• Aluminum
• Plastics, Polymer Alloys & Rubbers
• Dyestuffs
• Insecticides
• Herbicides

Animal health products