Sumitomo Chemical reports consolidated financial results for the half-year ended 30 September 2012: Health and Crop Science

摘要

Sumitomo Chemical has reported consolidated financial results for the half-year ended 30 September 2012. For its 1H 2012 (period ends 30 September 2012), the Health and Crop Science business unit of Sumitomo Chemical Co Ltd has reported net sales of ￥119.8 billion (￥138.5 billion for its 1H 2011) and operating income of ￥7728 M (￥14.7 billion). In the area of crop protection chemicals, shipments of herbicides remained strong in overseas markets, but sales declined due to seasonal effects caused by a change in an overseas subsidiary's fiscal year to the end of March from the end of December. Shipments of pharmaceutical chemicals and the long-lasting insecticidal mosquito net, Olyset Net, decreased due to lower demand.