Newly certified product manufactured at Sumitomo Chemical’s certified processing units*¹ (manufacturing and processing sites)

Sumitomo Chemical has also received an ISCC certification for the Ehime Works as a trader/storage*² (trading and storage operator). This enables the Company to handle all ISCC PLUS certified products.

ISCC PLUS is an international certification system to ensure that sustainable raw materials, such as recycled materials, are properly managed throughout the supply chain, including during the product manufacturing process. With this certification, Sumitomo Chemical is able to apply the mass balance approach*³ to the sale of these certified products.

The Company will sell its ISCC PLUS certified recycled products under the Meguri^TM*⁴ brand to widely promote their environmental friendliness to customers.

Sumitomo Chemical has identified the mitigation of environmental impact as one of its material issues to be addressed as management priorities. We will continue to work to promote the acquisition of this certification and the provision of certified products, and strive together with various stakeholders to achieve a sustainable society.

 [Declaration Regarding ISCC PLUS Requirements]
Sumitomo Chemical commits and declares that we will comply with the ISCC PLUS requirements, in accordance with the latest ISCC regulations, and avoid double counting our environmental contributions.

*1 Under ISCC PLUS certification, a processing unit refers to an organization that physically or chemically converts input materials.
*2 Under ISCC PLUS certification, a trader/storage refers to an operator that trades and stores ISCC PLUS certified products.
*3 In the mass balance approach, when a product is manufactured using a raw material with a certain characteristic (such as a recycled raw material) and a raw material without it, that characteristic can be allocated to a part of the output of the product based on the proportion of the raw material with that characteristic used in the manufacturing process.
*4 Sumitomo Chemical’s brand for its products and products under development obtained using recycling technology. The Company provides the Meguri^TM brand products to contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and environmental impact.

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A click-on agreement, also known as a clickwrap or click-through agreement, is a type of contract in which users indicate their agreement to the terms of the contract by clicking an “agree” button or following a similar process. Now that this type of contract has been adopted, it has become easier to start using CFP-TOMO^®.

1. Shifting to a Click-On Agreement
Previously, a new user needed to sign a license agreement with Sumitomo Chemical to use CFP-TOMO^®. However, for version 3.1 of the tool, this will no longer be necessary. A new user is requested to carefully review and understand the contract terms before starting to use the tool.

2. For Existing Contract Holders
Currently, over 110 companies, mainly in the chemical industry, have entered into the contract to use CFP-TOMO^®. Sumitomo Chemical will contact existing contract holders individually to request that they update CFP-TOMO^® to version 3.1. Even if contract holders do not update their contract, they will still be able to continue to use version 3.0.

Sumitomo Chemical will continue to advance collaborations with suppliers, business partners and other stakeholders to achieve carbon neutrality across society as a whole.

For more information, please visit the CFP-TOMO^® website below.
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Contact

CFP-TOMO Inquiry Desk: toiawasemadoguchi-cfp-tomo@ya.sumitomo-chem.co.jp

Since 2016, Sumitomo Chemical has been working on this initiative through which it designates the Group’s products and technologies that contribute to addressing climate change and reducing environmental impact as Sumika Sustainable Solutions. The designation process includes reviews and assessments by multiple external experts. The Company has set the target of increasing the annual sales revenue from Sumika Sustainable Solutions to 700 billion yen in FY2024, the final year of its current Corporate Business Plan, and to 1.2 trillion yen by FY2030.

The newly designated products include a termite control agent using plant-derived natural pyrethrin, super engineering plastics with outstanding heat resistance, and polypropylene manufactured using material recycling technology (see the attached document for more details). Each of the products and technologies are aligned with specific Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and are expected to contribute to meeting those goals in their respective fields.

In 2023, Sumitomo Chemical introduced a new indicator of avoided greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions called Science Based Contributions (SBC) to more clearly demonstrate the contribution of the Company’s products and technologies to carbon neutrality. With the SBC indicator, the Company quantifies and visualizes, through scientific calculations, how much GHG emissions have been reduced in society through the use of selected Sumika Sustainable Solutions technologies and final products that are expected to definitively reduce GHG emissions. The SBC for FY2023 was 7.10 million tons of CO2e, which is a carbon dioxide equivalent unit. The Company will utilize the SBC as one of its major indicators for promoting proactive information disclosure to its stakeholders and advance its efforts to achieve carbon neutrality globally.

The Sumitomo Chemical Group strives to be an innovative solution provider that solves society’s major issues by leveraging innovative technologies. The Group will continue to work as one to create solutions that contribute to building a sustainable society.

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List of the products and technologies newly designated as Sumika Sustainable Solutions

Solutions	● Designation area ■ Features	Contributions to SDGs
EMOPLENⓇ A 1815 R BLACK (Sumika Polymer Compounds Turkey)	●  Contribution to resource recycling ■  Polypropylene material manufactured by recycling waste plastics
Recycled PMMA sheet SUMIKA ACRYL SHEETTM MeguriⓇ (Sumika Acrylic Sales Co., Ltd.)	●  Contribution to resource recycling ■  PMMA sheet material manufactured by recycling waste PMMA
COSMOPLENE® Circular PP (The Polyolefin Company (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.)	●  Contribution to resource recycling ■   Polypropylene manufactured using chemical recycling technology, made from recycled oil obtained by pyrolyzing waste plastics
Alumina AES-11 and AES-12 for use in lithium-ion secondary battery material	●  Climate change mitigation and adaptation ■   Alumina used for coating of the separator of lithium-ion secondary batteries
SUMI-EPOXYTM ELM-434 series	●  Climate change mitigation and adaptation ■  Epoxy resin used in combination with polyethersulfone in carbon fiber reinforced plastics for aircraft
SUMIKASUPERTM LCP for use in oil circulation pipes	●  Climate change mitigation and adaptation and contribution to resource recycling ■  Thermoplastic engineering plastic used in oil circulation pipes of HEV transaxles
Adhesive lamination technology in the polarizermanufacturing process	●  Contribution to resource recycling ■  Technology for bonding raw material films by UV adhesion in the manufacturing process of polarizers for high-end small- and medium-sized OLED displays
PFAS-free KrF Photoresist	●  Sustainable use of natural capital ■  KrF photoresist free of PFAS compounds
AdGreen® renewable adjuvant for agrochemicals (Sumitomo Chemical Latin America)	●  Climate change mitigation and adaptation and sustainable use of natural capital ■  Plant oil-based spreader added to agricultural fungicides
Guntoner Natural Pyrethrin MC and Guntoner Natural Pyrethrin MC for wood treatment (SC Environmental Science Co., Ltd.)	●  Climate change mitigation and adaptation and sustainable use of natural capital ■  Termite control agent with natural pyrethrin extracted from chrysanthemum plants as the active ingredient

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Under the slogan of “co-creating a carbon neutral future by leveraging green chemistry,” the Group will exhibit a variety of functional materials, including polyolefins using renewable ethanol as a raw material, and Sumicle^® polyethylene for soft packaging materials, which makes the recycling of used plastic materials easier.

1. Overview of Chinaplus 2024
Dates: Tuesday, April 23, to Friday, April 26, 2024
Location: National Exhibition and Convention Center (NECC), Hongqiao, Shanghai, China
(NECC official website: http://www.neccsh.com/cecsh/)
 Chinaplus 2024 official website: https://www.chinaplasonline.com/CPS24/idx/eng

2. Sumitomo Chemical’s Exhibits
Sumitomo Chemical’s booth
Hall number: 6.2
Booth number: C61

Sumicle® high-rigidity polyethylene
We will introduce Sumitomo Chemical’s new high-rigidity polyethylene. Applying Sumicle^® to the base layer of plastic packages and containers makes it possible to produce single material packages and containers using polyethylene. This contributes to achieving horizontal recycling, which is the recycling of used plastics back to resin that can be used in similar applications.

 
Very low density Easy Processing Polyethylene (EPPE)
Sumitomo Chemical’s original polyethylene, Easy Processing Polyethylene (EPPE), has an excellent balance of strength and processability. The newly developed very low density EPPE has the same softness compared to polyolefin elastomers (POE), and contributes to reducing energy consumption during processing due to its low extrusion load.

 
Environmentally sustainable polyolefin
We will present our projects to produce environmentally sustainable polyolefin with quality equivalent to conventional polyolefin by using renewable ethanol and waste plastics as raw materials.

Super engineering plastics: SUMIKASUPER^TM LCP and SUMIKAEXCEL^TM PES
Liquid crystal polymers (LCP) have excellent fluidity that enables the design of thin-wall products. In addition, LCP retain their physical properties even after repeated recycling. Due to this, , LCP can be easily and effectively recycled, reducing the amount of material used and material waste, as well as contributing to lower costs and reduced environmental impact.

Polyethersulfone (PES) is a useful material in the life and healthcare field due to its heat resistance, biocompatibility, and durability against sterilization processes.

For more information about super engineering plastics, please visit Sumitomo Chemical’s website:
High-Performance Engineering Plastics Department of SUMITOMO CHEMICAL (sumitomo-chem.co.jp)

 Polymer modifier IGETABOND™
Igetabond™ is an ethylene-glycidyl methacrylate copolymer. Due to its epoxy group, Igetabond™ exhibits excellent reactivity and adhesion to a wide variety of materials.

For more information about functional polymers, please visit Sumitomo Chemical’s website:
Sumitomo Chemical Functional Polymers Our products make a bridge to a brighter and more comfortable life. (sumitomo-chem.co.jp)

3. Group Companies Participating in the Exhibition
SUMIKA ELECTRONIC MATERIALS (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
Sumika Electronic Materials (Shanghai) will present innovative material solutions as well as environmentally friendly and high-performance plastic technologies and their cutting-edge applications. The company is looking forward to the opportunity to work with customers and industries to open a new chapter of future material technology.
Company website:https://www.sumika.com.cn/ 

NIPPON A&L INC
Nippon A&L will present the modifier NAL CHARGE, which adds new value to ABS resin, as well as the cleaning agent TOUGHTRACE^TM for plastic injection-molding machines and extruders.

 
SUMIKA COLOR CO., LTD.
Full Power for the Color
Sumika Color delivers vivid colors that create a sustainable world.
Company website: https://www.sumikacolor.co.jp/

Contact

Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.
Resin-Related Business Development Dept.
TEL: +81-3-5201-0248

The TNFD is an international initiative launched in June 2021. It aims to shift financial flows away from nature-negative outcomes and toward nature-positive outcomes^*2 by encouraging companies and financial institutions to disclose information about their nature-related issues.

Sumitomo Chemical recognizes the sustainable use of natural capital, which contributes to ecosystem conservation, as one of its material issues that should be addressed as a management priority. As such, in December 2011, the Company established Sumitomo Chemical's Commitment to the Conservation of Biodiversity, and has since been operating its business under this commitment. Furthermore, in order to enhance the Company's disclosure of nature-related information, Sumitomo Chemical has engaged in the TNFD Forum, which advocates for the goals and vision of the TNFD and supports its activities, since March 2022.

The Sumitomo Chemical Group will continue to work together to contribute to achieving a sustainable society through enhancing its disclosures based on the TNFD Recommendations, as well as creating solutions that contribute to ecosystem conservation.

*1    Companies and organizations that are willing to disclose information based on the TNFD Recommendations and have registered their commitment to do so on the TNFD website.
*2    A concept that aims to halt and reverse the loss of natural capital and biodiversity and put nature on a path to recovery, proposed at the 15th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP15) held in 2021.

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Since 2016, Sumitomo Chemical has been working to designate the Group’s products and technologies that contribute to addressing climate change and reducing environmental impact as Sumika Sustainable Solutions, after review and assessment by multiple external experts. The Company aims to increase Sumika Sustainable Solutions sales revenue to 700 billion yen by FY2024, the final year of the current Corporate Business Plan period, and to 1.2 trillion yen by FY2030.

The products designated this time include: gallium nitride (GaN) epitaxial wafers for radio frequency wireless communication applications that help reduce power consumption of cellular base stations; biorationals using natural enemy insects that contribute to the implementation of sustainable and environmentally-friendly agriculture; and the SumiLarv^® 2MR with WALS^® vector control products for preventing outbreaks and spread of insect-borne infectious diseases, such as dengue fever. All these products and technologies are aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), such as “Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts,” and are expected to contribute in their respective areas.

In June 2023, Sumitomo Chemical established a new indicator of avoided greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, called Science Based Contributions (SBC), as an effort to more clearly show the contributions of its products and technologies to carbon neutrality. With the SBC indicator, the Company quantifies and visualizes, through scientific calculations, how much GHG emissions have been reduced in society through the use of selected Sumika Sustainable Solutions technologies and final products that are expected to reduce definite amounts of GHG emissions. The SBC indicator in FY2022 totaled 8.30 million tons of CO2e (carbon dioxide equivalent). Sumitomo Chemical will utilize the SBC as one of its major indicators set for promoting proactive information disclosure to its stakeholders and advance its efforts to achieve carbon neutrality globally.

The Sumitomo Chemical Group will continue to work as one to create solutions that contribute to building a sustainable society by leveraging the diverse technologies that it has cultivated as a diversified chemical company.

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The products and technologies newly designated as Sumika Sustainable Solutions

Solutions	● Designation area ■ Features	Contributions to SDGs
GaN epitaxial wafers for radio frequency wireless communication applications	●  Addressing climate change ■  Gallium nitride (GaN) compound semiconductor for high-power, high-speed electron devices, which helps reduce the power consumption of wireless infrastructure that utilizes radio frequency signals
Ecologically friendly pouch containers for liquid shower herbicides (Rainbow Chemical Co., Ltd.)	●  Addressing climate change and reducing environmental impact ■  Standing pouch containers for liquid shower herbicides, replacing plastic bottles to reduce the volume and weight of plastic waste
BENICA Natural Spray (Sumitomo Chemical Garden Products Inc.)	●  Addressing climate change, reducing environmental impact, and effective use of resources ■   A new insecticidal and fungicidal spray using a unique formulation of naturally derived ingredients, which shows outstanding efficacy against lepidopteran pests. Replacement with sprays using naturally derived ingredients contributes to reducing environmental impact.
Biorationals (natural enemy insects) (SUMIKA TECHNOSERVICE CORPORATION)	●  Reducing environmental impact, and others ■   Biorationals using insects of native species in Japan propagated with proprietary technology. These products contribute to the shift to sustainable and environmentally friendly agriculture, reducing the environmental impact of chemical pesticides.
SumiLarv® 2MR with WALS® (Sumitomo Chemical Latin America)	●  Reducing environmental impact, and others ■  Combinations of Sumitomo Chemical’s vector control products and technologies for controlling pests carrying infectious diseases, which contribute to preventing outbreaks and spread of dengue fever and other insect-borne infectious diseases, while reducing environmental impact

Tokyo, Japan and Boston, MA – July 18, 2023 – Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd (TSE:4005), one of Japan's leading chemical companies, and Ginkgo Bioworks (NYSE: DNA), which is building the leading platform for cell programming and biosecurity, today announced a new program to develop functional chemicals with synthetic biology and expand upon the companies’ existing biomanufacturing partnership.

Sumitomo Chemical and Ginkgo Bioworks have been collaborating since 2021 using Ginkgo's synthetic biology platform for the production of products in industries ranging from personal care and cosmetics, to agriculture and pharma. Today’s announcement marks the start of a third project between the companies which aims to enable the mass production of functional chemicals via fermentation.

As part of this latest project, Ginkgo Bioworks plans to utilize its strain design technology to develop a microbial strain and related fermentation process to produce the target molecule, while Sumitomo Chemical will develop the manufacturing process and its scale-up for commercialization. By mass-producing the functional chemicals through microbial fermentation instead of traditional fossil fuel-based chemical synthesis, the companies aim to provide products with a lower carbon footprint that contribute toward a carbon-neutral society.

As the rapid development of biotechnology and digital technologies continues, synthetic biology, in which organisms are genetically engineered to express desired functions, is attracting more attention in various fields. In particular, leaders in the chemical industry expect synthetic biology to have the potential to replace raw materials and create energy-saving processes, replacing the current high-temperature, high-pressure processes that use petroleum as a raw material.

“In the field of chemicals, there is an urgent need to develop products and processes with low environmental impact, and we believe that the use of synthetic biology will meet this need,” said Hiroshi Ueda, Executive Vice President of Sumitomo Chemical. “By strengthening our collaboration with Ginkgo Bioworks as a partner in synthetic biology, we aim to accelerate the development of innovative technologies that could be a game changer for the chemical industry and ultimately consumers.”

“Sumitomo Chemical is a valued long-term partner to Ginkgo Bioworks, and we are as excited as ever about our work together to introduce bio-based products across multiple industries. Our ongoing relationship provides an invaluable opportunity to generate continuous learning and create scalable processes that allow our partners to make more and more sustainable products through synthetic biology,” said Jason Kelly, CEO and co-founder of Ginkgo Bioworks. “We’re so proud of the fruits already borne by our unique collaboration, and we look forward to continuing to work through the pipeline of products of interest that we share with our fantastic colleagues at Sumitomo Chemical.”

About Sumitomo Chemical

Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, Sumitomo Chemical is one of Japan’s leading chemical companies, offering a diverse range of products globally in the fields of Essential Chemicals & Plastics, Energy & Functional Materials, IT-related Chemicals, Health & Crop Sciences, and Pharmaceuticals. The company’s consolidated net sales for the fiscal year of 2022 were JPY 2.9 trillion, and the number of employees is about 33,500 as of March 31, 2023. For additional information, visit the company’s website at /english/.

About Ginkgo Bioworks

Ginkgo Bioworks is the leading horizontal platform for cell programming, providing flexible, end-to-end services that solve challenges for organizations across diverse markets, from food and agriculture to pharmaceuticals to industrial and specialty chemicals. Ginkgo’s biosecurity and public health unit, Concentric by Ginkgo, is building global infrastructure for biosecurity to empower governments, communities, and public health leaders to prevent, detect and respond to a wide variety of biological threats. For more information, visit  ginkgobioworks.com and  concentricbyginkgo.com, read our  blog, or follow us on social media channels such as Twitter (@Ginkgo and @ConcentricByGBW), Instagram (@GinkgoBioworks and @ConcentricByGinkgo), or  LinkedIn.

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Established in 2007, EcoVadis is a performance rating agency, working to help companies improve their environmental and social practices through their global supply chains. The agency has assessed about 100,000 companies from 175 countries, across 200 business sectors, in four areas: Environment, Labor & Human Rights, Ethics, and Sustainable Procurement. A large number of global companies refer to EcoVadis assessment results as one of the important selection criteria for choosing suppliers.

In this year’s assessment, Sumitomo Chemical has again achieved high ratings in the areas of Environment, Ethics, and Sustainable Procurement. Specifically, the Company has been highly rated in Sustainable Procurement for having expanded the scope of its implementation of sustainable procurement that prioritizes the environment and respect for human rights. Furthermore, its efforts to strengthen supplier engagement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions throughout the supply chain, and to enhance the acquisition of certifications related to sustainable procurement also contributed to the recognition.

The Sumitomo Chemical Group has taken strong encouragement from these assessment results, and will strive together to step up its sustainability efforts. The Company will also continue to deliver sustainable growth and meet the expectations of its stakeholders by contributing to the creation of a sustainable society through its business.

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Since 2015, Sumitomo Chemical has been advancing its Sumika Sustainable Solutions initiative, an in-house effort to recognize the Sumitomo Chemical Group’s products and technologies that contribute to climate action and the reduction of environmental impact, taking the entire product life cycle into consideration, and to step up their development and dissemination. In fiscal 2022, the number of Sumika Sustainable Solutions products and technologies reached 66, with revenue reaching approximately 680.0 billion yen, and their share of the Company’s revenue increased to 24%.

The SBC indicator represents the amount of GHG emission reductions achieved in society through the use of Sumika Sustainable Solutions products and technologies sold and provided by the Group that are  quantitatively and scientifically calculated.^*1 The calculation is based on the carbon footprint^*2 and sales volume of each of the products, as well as the production capacity of licensees’ plants using the technologies. The calculation method is validated by external experts.

Discussions are becoming more active globally about avoided GHG emissions calculation rules and related issues. Sumitomo Chemical hopes that the SBC indicator will serve as a catalyst for promoting more in-depth discussions on avoided GHG emissions in various areas and industries.

Method of calculating avoided GHG emissions using the SBC Indicator
The SBC indicator is calculated based on the carbon footprint and sales volume of each Sumika Sustainable Solutions product, as well as the production capacity of licensees’ plants using Sumika Sustainable Solutions technologies, following the steps (1) through (3):

The Company carefully selects those Sumika Sustainable Solutions products and technologies that are expected to reduce definite amounts of GHG emissions and calculates their respective SBC indicators—contributions to emissions reductions by customers and licensees—as avoided emissions that those products and technologies have achieved in society. The SBC indicator in fiscal 2022^*3 totaled 8.30 million tons of CO₂e (carbon dioxide equivalent), with 2.70 million tons for those Sumika Sustainable Solutions technologies and 5.60 million tons for those Sumika Sustainable Solutions final products.

Utilizing the SBC indicator, Sumitomo Chemical will step up its disclosures and strive to promote stakeholders’ understanding of the contributions of the Group’s products and technologies to society, while also advancing its efforts toward achieving global carbon neutrality.

*1 While taking on the challenge of reducing its Scope 1 and 2 emissions as its obligation on its own initiative, Sumitomo Chemical will implement the SBC indicator as a separate initiative to make visible the contributions that the Company makes to society’s reduction of GHG emissions through its technologies and final products.
Scope 1 emissions: Direct GHG emissions by businesses (from burning of fuels and industrial processing)
Scope 2 emissions: Indirect GHG emissions from purchases of utilities such as electricity and heat from outside the plant
*2 Carbon footprint: GHG emissions of a product across its life cycle, from the procurement of raw materials to the manufacture, use, and disposal of the product, expressed as a CO₂ equivalent.
*3 The fiscal 2022 SBC indicators for the selected technologies and products were calculated as follows:
For the technologies: Contributions to emissions reductions by licensees using the technologies were calculated by comparing the Company’s propylene oxide (PO)-only process with the average of other PO manufacturing processes, such as the chlorine process, and by comparing the Company’s hydrogen chloride oxidation process with the salt electrolysis process.
For the products: As for methionine, contributions to the reduction of N₂O in poultry waste were calculated by comparing feed using methionine with feed not using methionine. Regarding the Sumisoya herbicide, contributions to emissions reduction achieved by no-till farming in the U.S. were calculated by comparing no-till farming for soybean cultivation with the conventional farming method. As for a seed treatment agent and a paddy rice nursery-box treatment agent, contributions to emissions reduction achieved by avoiding the use of some crop protection chemicals were calculated by comparing these treatment methods with conventional methods.