Sumitomo Seika Chemicals Company, Limited manufactures and sells absorbent polymers, functional chemicals, and gases in Japan and internationally. The company offers sodium polyacrylate-based super absorbent polymer for use in hygiene products, industrial materials, and other applications; and functional chemicals, such as water-soluble and water-absorbent polymers, emulsions, latex products, powdered plastics, fine chemicals, functional polymers, and polar solvents for use in personal care products, performance adhesives and rubber products, and battery and energy materials. It also provides fine gases, including electronic and specialty gases, as well as precision pressure regulators; industrial chemicals and chemical gases; pressure swing adsorption (PSA) system PSA gas generators; various chemical plants; and storage equipment. The company was founded in 1944 and is headquartered in Osaka, Japan.