Oct 30, 2026, 04:30 UTC
Sumitomo Bakelite raised its fiscal 2027 interim and year-end dividend forecasts by ¥10 per share each, to ¥70 apiece, for a projected annual dividend of ¥140 per share.
Source:Oct 30, 2026, 04:30 UTC
Sumitomo Bakelite raised its forecast for net profit attributable to owners for the fiscal year ending March 2027 to ¥35 billion from ¥28.5 billion, citing stronger-than-expected semiconductor-material demand and including the impact of acquiring a business from Kyocera.
Source:Oct 28, 2026, 05:55 UTC
Sumitomo Bakelite shares rose sharply.
Source:Oct 8, 2026, 06:28 UTC
Sumitomo Bakelite plans to invest about ¥10 billion to add production lines for advanced semiconductor encapsulation materials at factories in Suzhou, China, and Singapore, targeting operation in fiscal 2030.
Sep 29, 2026, 04:14 UTC
Sumitomo Bakelite signed a sales agreement with US-based XDemics to sell the high-density cell culture platform "Expansify" in Japan, with customer guidance to begin in October.
Source:Sep 16, 2026, 18:15 UTC
Sumitomo Bakelite North America Holding, Inc. announced it will close its Durez Corporation manufacturing facility in Kenton, Ohio over an approximately two-year transition period, with limited operations continuing through September 2028.
Source:Sep 9, 2026, 05:11 UTC
Sumitomo Bakelite held a business briefing on the previous day, presenting growth prospects for sealing materials driven by AI data centers and physical AI, and for high-performance plastics with aircraft-related materials sales potentially reaching 25-30 billion yen by 2030.
Source:Aug 14, 2026, 20:00 UTC
Sumitomo Bakelite's stock price is trading near its all-time high, driven by strong sales of semiconductor encapsulation materials and expectations of price increases.
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