SUMITOMO CHEMICAL | Environment, Health & Safety | Environment-friendly products (Ecological products)





	What Is Responsible Care?
	Basic Policies for Responsible Care Activities

	Corporate Policy on Safety Environment, and the Product Quality
	Policy for Responsible Care Activities
	Organization
	Voluntary Action Plans on Environment


	Some Results of Responsible Care Activities

	Environmental Protection
	Occupational Health and Safety
	Security and Disaster Prevention
	Chemical Safety
	Product Quality Assurance Activities
	Safety in Logistics Operations


	Sustainable Chemistry


	Environment-friendly products (Ecological products)


	CSR Report (Environment, Health & Safety Report)

It is our Company’s basic thinking from the viewpoint of protecting the earth that, as a corporate citizen, we should always harmonize our business activities with the environment and supply society with products that do not disturb the balance of nature, as well as take proper responsibility for our products throughout their life cycles.

We manufacture and sell a variety of products as a diversified chemical company; in addition, we contribute to society by actively developing and commercializing what we call ecological products that are all environment-friendly.

Our representative ecological products are as follows:

	Examples of Sumitomo Chemical’s Ecological Products

Water Purification and Water
Quality Protection Products

Aluminum sulfate and polychlorinated aluminum for effluent treatment; Sumifloc, a polymer coagulant; Duolite, an iron exchange resin to remove a trace amount of hazardous substance through adsorption; and Sumichelate, a heavy metal adsorption agent.

Recycling-Related Products

Sumiraze-resin, a recycled paper strength enhancer; Bond-fast, a polymer alloy to ease mixing of fresh plastics with recycled plastics; and Cleantate, a polyolefin agricultural film.

Agricultural and Greenification Products

Oristar-A, a biological insecticide targeting hard-to-control insect pests in fruit trees or flowering trees: Coat Seeds, which are used for mechanized and labor-saving seeding on large farms, and Sumisansui, used in irrigation systems for the greenification of dry lands.

Automotive Products

Sumitomo TPE, polyolefin-type thermoplastic elastomer with excellent recycling properties and easy incineration; Polymer alloys, with light weight leading to better mileage efficiency and less emission, and thereby reducing load on the environment.

Home and Office Products

Suiaru-Power dioxin-absorbent film, a new composite resin that absorbs heavy metals and such poisonous gases as dioxins generated at garbage incineration facilities; Sumithermal System, a floor-heating system that stores heat by taking advantage of less expensive surplus electricity available at night and releasing it during the day.