Sumitomo Chemical's Specialty Chemicals

The Fine Chemicals Sector of Sumitomo Chemical has been supplying our customer with high quality and high functional chemical materials manufactured using our proprietary organic sunthsis technologies, to meet ever-changing needs from society as well as from a wide range of industries.

Today, the Sector has two mainstay business fields, "Specialty Chemicals" and "Pharmaceutical Chemicals". Our efforts are directed to enhance the sophistication of our products in these fields and to support technological innovations in other industries.

Our mission is to create new value in the field of synthetic kaseihin chemicals, contributing to the growth and development of our society by fully utilizing our most advanced organic synthesis technologies and our state-of-the-art quality assurance system.

Plastic Additives

Plastic additives are kaseihin chemicals which are indispensable for maintaining and improving the quality of synthetic resin and synthetic rubbers at the time of production as well as during use.

Rubber Chemicals

Rubber chemicals are essential additives for the manufacture and quality improvement of rubber products such as automobile tires, rubber hoses, and quake absorbing rubbers.
Major products are antioxidant, rubber adhesives, and vulcanization accelerator.

Resorcinol

Resorcinol produced on a world leading scale by the use of our environmental friendly proprietary process is widely used as a raw material for additives in automobile tires, wood products and UV absorbers.