Sumitomo Chemical Asia Pte Ltd (SCA) was established in May 2006 as a marketing, sales and distribution coordination center.
Apart from the Middle East region, the company has the exclusive rights to market the petrochemical products manufactured by Petro Rabigh.

In the 4th quarter of 2005, the joint venture between Sumitomo Chemical and Saudi Aramco was established to develop the Rabigh Refinery and Petrochemical Project (Petro Rabigh). This US 10-billion-dollar project entails the upgrading of the existing Rabigh refinery at the Red Sea coast of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

The following processes are added:
1) A steam cracker to produce ethylene, using ethane feedstock
2) A High Olefins Fluid Catalytic Cracker (HOFCC) to provide gasoline and propylene
3) Polymer and other downstream petrochemical production processes

Consequently, this plant will produce 700,000 Tons of Polypropylene resin, 900,000 Tons of Polyethylene resin, 200,000 Tons of Propylene Oxide and 600,000 Tons of Ethylene Glycol every year.

The construction phase began in early 2006 with the completion date set in 1^st quarter 2009. Following that will be the full scale operations to produce high value petrochemical products. The project upon completion will be one of the world’s largest export-oriented integrated petrochemical facilities employing Sumitomo Chemical’s proprietary technology.