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History of SUMITOMO SEIKA CHEMICALS

Sumitomo Seika was founded as a fertilizer company in 1944, and shifted its core business to industrial chemical-product-related operations during a period of instability in the fertilizer industry.It has since continued to carry out research and development utilizing our technology base, and established its current core businesses while developing absorbent polymers, functional chemicals, gases, engineering, and fine chemicals. We aim at being a company that continues to contribute to society, as we have always done.

Sumitomo Seika was established during the hardship of last war and contributed to postwar reconstruction:It aggressively increased the production of fertilizer to contribute to the expansion of food production.Period of change of industrial transformation:Facing the turning point of fertilizer industry.A phase of major reformation of change of business:Expanding industrial chemicals and pure gases through technical basis in fertilizer industry.Start and establishment of core businesses:Sumitomo Seika developed its unique technologies and products and established them as its core business.For newly significant leap forward - strategic move to future -:Trying to reinforce the management base and expand business through various sectors business deployment such as Absorbent Polymers, Functional Chemicals, Fine Chemicals, Gases, Engineering.
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