Sumitomo Chemical Returns Tokyo Head Office to Nihonbashi After 28 Years and Opens 'SYNERGYCA Creation Lounge' to Promote the Creation of New Value
November 10, 2021 at 09:12 am EST
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Sumitomo Chemical will move its Tokyo Head Office from Shinkawa, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, to Nihonbashi, in the same ward, and commence operations on November 10, 2021. Furthermore, on December 1, the Company will open in its new headquarters building the 'SYNERGYCA Creation Lounge,' a space for interaction and discussion with customers to create ideas and inspirations that will lead to the creation of new value.
The new head office, which will return to Nihonbashi for the first time in 28 years, represents the concepts and layouts developed in the efforts led by young employees, who will shape Sumitomo Chemical's future, under the theme of 'INNOVATION REACTOR-Exciting Workplace.' On the working floor, a department-specific free address has been adopted. In addition to telephone-box-type booths for online conferences, separate working spaces are available in a variety of sizes that can be chosen to suit specific purposes, from having time alone to concentrate, to exchanging ideas with colleagues. In addition, in order to promote active and spontaneous exchanges of opinions between employees in different departments, common communication spaces have been established at two central locations on each floor. With these and many other initiatives, the Company aims to build a workplace environment where each employee will be better able to move on their own to engage with people, share information quickly with those who need it, and engage in free and open discussions beyond departmental boundaries-an environment that will help drive innovation and the creation of new value.
The 'SYNERGYCA Creation Lounge,' created under the theme of 'Let's Talk to Make a Difference in the World: Chemistry for Innovation,' provides a place where visitors from industry, government, and academia can see, touch, and experience the Sumitomo Chemical Group's technologies, while also having discussions to generate ideas and inspirations that will lead to the creation of new value. In SYNERGYCA there are three areas: the 'Get Together' area, where communications with visitors take place; the 'Experiencing' area, where the visitor can, in an enjoyable and easy-to-understand way, learn about the Group's history, products, technologies and research development projects through digital contents and virtual reality; and the 'Interaction' area, where the visitor and the Company staff discuss matters of interest and social issues that each work on to explore potential solutions together. All contents of the program are designed both for real and virtual participation, and the program is tailored for each visitor.
The Sumitomo Chemical Group is committed to creating new value by building on innovation, as set out in its business philosophy. The Group will continue to work as one to create both economic value and social value in an integrated manner, achieving sustained growth for the Group and contributing to building a sustainable society.
Sumitomo Chemical Co Ltd is one of the Japanese largest chemical groups. The group is also manufacturing and marketing pharmaceutical products. Net sales break down by family of products as follows:
- petrochemical and plastic products (25.8%): ethylene, polyethylene, propylene, elastomers, agricultural films, etc.;
- pharmaceutical products (23.9%): ethic drugs, radiopharmaceutical products, etc.;
- telecommunication chemical products (18.9%): optic films, pigments, filters, etc.;
- agrochemical and fine chemistryproducts (18.5%): insecticides, herbicides, fertilizers, food additives, etc.;
- functional chemical products (10.7%): methanol, caustic soda, aluminum hydroxide, alumina, nitric acid, acrylonitrile, active pharmaceutical ingredients, polymeric additives, resorcine, colorants, etc.;
- other (2.2%).
Net sales break down geographically as follows: Japan (31.7%), China (19.2%), Asia (19.5%), North America (17.7%), Europe (4.2%) and other (7.7%).
SUMITOMO CHEMICAL CO., LTD. 
