CEO Spotlight: Sitting Down with Fyffes’ Helge Sparsoe to Talk Strategy, Sustainability and Leading through a Pandemic
In July 2020, Helge Sparsoe took over as CEO of our Group Company Fyffes – the largest importer of Fairtrade certified bananas in the world and the biggest melon importer in North America.
SC South America Aims for Sustainable Growth
SC South America GM Focuses on De-carbonization, Agri-Food and Analyzing Each Business’s Own Characteristic Sustainability. For the growth of agriculture related businesses in South America, sustainable growth involves building an unwavering operational base in South America as a primary goal, as it has been for all businesses in the region for Nobuhiro Yoshida, General Manager for SC South America (SCSA) and President of SC Brazil.
Sustainable Coffee Still Flying High.
SC Guatemala Exports Bird-Friendly® Coffee to Japan. Since 2001, SC Guatemala has expedited the export of coffee from Mexico, Central America and Andes countries to the Japanese market, but its most sustainability-aligned coffee is its Bird Friendly® (BF) Coffee, which continues to hold its place as the standard for environmentally-conscious coffee exports from Central and South America.
So Fresh and So Clean (Energy)
SC Americas Logistics Operations Works to Fulfill Sustainability Goals through Transport & Storage Improvements. As SC Americas’ Logistics Operations attends to the business of physically storing and transporting South American food products, the methods of storage and transportation must be constantly improving.
SCOA Investment BlueNalu Advances Alternative Protein with New Partnership
As global population and consumption continues to rise, the United Nations projects that the world will require 28 million metric tons of new seafood production by 2030. The projection is even more dire as levels of marine species continue to decline due to rising ocean temperatures and the effects of overfishing.
Food Business in South America Continues to Thrive
For more than 20 years, Sumitomo Corporation of Americas’ (SCOA) food business has built a reputation as a trusted supplier to the Japanese food industry. Today, the quality and consistency of these products generate recognition and brand loyalty in the global retail and wholesale marketplace as a result of our longstanding relationships and reliability.
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Natural Resources
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Cuiaba, Brazil – Sumitomo Corporation has reached an agreement with shareholders of NATIVA AGRONEGÓCIOS & REPRESENTAÇÕES LTDA. and NATIVA AGRÍCOLA E REPRESENTAÇÃO LTDA. (collectively, &...
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New York, NY – Sumitomo Corporation of Americas (“SCOA”) announced today its investment in TAE Technologies ("TAE"), a fusion power company and world leader in hydrogen-boron fusion research. The investment wi...
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Presidio Ventures, a Sumitomo Corporation of Americas Group Company, has joined a bridge round for Web3 Pro, Inc., a white-label enterprise Non Fungible Token (NFT) platform company headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. Web3 Pro will use...
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Bogota, Colombia - Sumitomo Corporation Andes S.A.S. (SCAN), a subsidiary of Sumitomo Corporation, one of the world’s largest traders and investors in goods and services, together with Promigas, a leading energy distributor an...
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WHITEHORSE, YT – Minto Metals Corp today announced it has recently completed a detailed review of proposals received from various offtake companies with respect to the processing and purchase of the copper concentrate pr...
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SC Guatemala Exports Bird-Friendly® Coffee to Japan
Since 2001, SC Guatemala has expedited the export of coffee from Mexico, Central America and Andes countries to the Japanese market, but its most sustainability-aligned coffee i...
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Summit Cosmetics Corporation (SCC), a global cosmetic ingredient developer and distributor, announced today that it has executed a Global Distribution Agreement with NXTLEVVEL, a commercial scale manufacturer of next generation biomass d...
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SCOA announced today its participation in the Japanese Hydrogen Forum, which is comprised of a group of leading Japanese affiliated companies with hydrogen businesses in the U.S. that are intent on providing the latest information regard...
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Presidio Ventures, a SCOA Group Company, has joined a Series B funding round for Lilac Solutions, Inc., a lithium extraction technology company headquartered in Oakland, CA. Lilac will use the funds from this round to continue expa...
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SCOA has signed a non-exclusive sales agreement with EcoVAP, Inc. a leader in advanced water reduction solutions for agricultural, municipal, and industrial users. EcoVAP’s patented and patent-pending water technologies provid...
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SCOA announced today its investment in OneH2, a hydrogen fuel company headquartered in Longview, North Carolina. SCOA’s investment will help the company deploy full turnkey hydrogen solutions, creating a national fuel production an...
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Closing of Asset Sale in Marcellus Shale Projectubsidiary in U.S.A., Summit Discovery Resources LLC (SDR), participated in the Project on September 2010.
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SCOA has entered into an agreement to increase its investment in Sintavia, the Aerospace and Space industry’s leading Tier One metal additive manufacturer, based in Hollywood, Florida. Read More......
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Minera San Cristóbal, one of the largest silver, zinc and lead mines in the world and wholly-owned subsidiary of Sumitomo Corporation, was part of a project awarded High Commendations by the Coalition for Energy Efficient Com...
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New York, NY – SCOA announced today its investment in BlueNalu, a leading innovative food company producing seafood directly from fish cells.
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SCOA announced today its stake in OneSky Systems, Inc., the leading developer of Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) and Urban Air Mobility (UAM) platforms, designed to enhance mission planning with advanced safety-of-flight analysis. ...
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Sumitomo Corporation, through SCOA, announced today its investment in Origin WirelessTM, a developer of advanced wireless sensing technologies for various “Smart Life” applications. SCOA’s investment will help Origin ac...
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New York, NY – January 13, 2019 – Sumitomo Corporation of Americas (“SCOA”) announced today its investment in Elementum 3D, Inc. (“Elementum” or “the Company”), an additive manufacturing re...
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SCOA announced today their purchase of the Collier Center, a 2.8 acre commercial complex located in downtown Phoenix, Arizona.
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SC and SCOA announced today their investment in LO3 Energy, Inc. (“LO3 Energy”), a U.S.-based developer and operator of blockchain-powered peer-to-peer (P2P) energy platforms. This funding will support LO3 Energy’s comm...
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SCOA and SC are pleased to announce a groundbreaking partnership between one of the company’s most recent investments, Built Robotics, and SCOA group company Sunstate Equipment Co. (“Sunstate”). This partnership is the...
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Sumitomo Corporation announced today its alliance with Bell, a Fort Worth, Texas-based company known as the premier provider of vertical lift aircraft and one of the leading companies in the up-and-coming air mobility industry.
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Minneapolis, Minnesota – February 6, 2019 – Sumitomo Corporation of Americas (SCOA) announced today their purchase of SPS Tower, a 31-story LEED certified office building in the heart of Minneapolis’ commercial business...
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Sumitomo Corporation of Americas is pleased to announce the sale of its Turquoise Nevada solar project in northern Nevada to Greenbacker Renewable Energy Company LLC. The 60.65-megawatt (DC) Turquoise Nevada project will sell power...
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Sumitomo Corporation of Americas (“SCOA”) today announced it has joined the Blockchain in Transport Alliance, an organization dedicated to determining best practices and standards for Blockchain in the transportation and logi...
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Under the Heads of Agreement, SCOA has agreed to negotiate for a 20-year liquefaction tolling agreement (TLA).
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SCOA announced today that it made a minority investment in Sintavia, LLC, a leading Tier One metal additive manufacturer based in Davie, FL.
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Sumitomo Corporation is pleased to announce that its subsidiary company, Summit Discovery Resources II LLC has reached an agreement with IOG Gonzales 1835 LLC, an entity managed by IOG Capital, LP, Covington Equity Investments LLC an...
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Sumitomo Corporation of Americas ("SCOA") and Sumitomo Corporation (together "Sumitomo Corporation Group"), an integrated global trading and investment enterprise, is pleased to announce its investment in TruTag Techn...
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New York, New York – April 5, 2016 – Sumitomo Corporation together with Sumitomo Corporation of Americas (collectively referred to as “the Sumitomo Corporation Group”) have entered into a 50/50 joint venture...
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ROCHELLE, ILLINOIS, April 27th, 2015—On March 17th, 2015, Sumitomo Corporation of Americas (SCOA) and Nippon Sharyo USA (Nippon Sharyo) celebrated contract fulfillment for manufacturing 1000 rail cars for public transit agency cust...
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New York, NY – February 2nd, 2015 -- Sumitomo Corporation (“Sumitomo”) and Agro Amazonia Produtos Agropecuários Ltda (“Agro Amazonia”) announced their agreement to have Sumitomo acquire a 65 percent s...
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TouGas Oilfield Solutions announced today that SUMITOMO DEUTSCHLAND GMBH, a wholly owned subsidiary of its ultimate parent company Sumitomo Corporation, has finalized a strategic partnership and investment agreement with TouGas.
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Tokyo, Japan – February 7, 2014 – Sumitomo Corporation has developed and installed the world’s first large-scale power storage system which utilizes used batteries collected from electric vehicles.
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Sumitomo Corporation of Americas
Strategic investments have transformed Sumitomo Corporation of Americas (SCOA) from a traditional trading company into a 21st century integrated business enterprise.
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