Living Harmoniously in the Global Environment through
the Practice of Sustainable Chemistry and Responsible Care

Sumitomo Chemical, as a member of the chemical industry, has defined as our corporate mission the realization of Sustainable Chemistry, whereby we help people live more fulfilling, comfortable lives by providing high-performance, high-quality and highly reliable products in a more environmentally friendly manner while also contributing to economic growth and the sustainable development of society.

Precious energy and resources are required for the manufacture of chemical products. Some processes produce unwanted byproducts and also generate waste. Sumitomo Chemical aims to further promote Sustainable Chemistry through Green Processes, which minimize environmental impact in production, and Clean Products, which are safer, more environmentally friendly and kinder to the health and provide high quality.

In addition, Sumitomo Chemical's corporate management places the utmost importance on Responsible Care (RC), the voluntary efforts of companies to ensure safety, environmental protection, health and product quality throughout all stages of the life cycle of their products. We are promoting Responsible Care activities at all of our manufacturing and research facilities in Japan as well as those of our Group companies at home and abroad.

By steadily promoting these Responsible Care initiatives, we will work to fulfill our social responsibilities as a corporation, such as preserving the global environment, achieving our zero-accident and zero-disaster targets, ensuring the safety of chemical substances, and preventing the occurrence of product quality problems, and thereby gain the further trust of society.