Monday, April 20, 2009 — 3E Company®, the leading provider of Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) compliance and information management services, today announced that Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd., a leading Japanese chemical company, has licensed 3E’s Ariel ADM-EHSAP loading tool and Ariel content modules for SAP EH&S. Sumitomo Chemical plans to use the tool and content with its SAP EH&S platform as the foundation for various EH&S applications, including global MSDS authoring and Responsible Care program management.

Sumitomo Chemical has adopted the Ariel ADM-EHSAP regulatory data loading and management tool as well as a number of regulatory content modules, including Ariel Product Safety Data and Ariel Transportation of Dangerous Goods Data. The Company has also adopted the Ariel Multilingual Phrase Library for SAP EH&S and Ariel Expert Rules, which work together to simplify the creation and authoring of MSDSs, labels, and other documents for country-specific regulations in proper local languages. 3E’s Ariel Global Research Team will also be providing document templates for Sumitomo’s SAP EH&S requirements. Information & Telecommunication Systems of Hitachi, Ltd., a leading Tokyo-based IT solutions provider, served as the SAP EH&S implementation consultant on the project.

Sumitomo Chemical evaluated a number of regulatory data solutions and selected 3E Company’s award-winning Ariel content modules because of its vast scope and long-standing reputation for accuracy. Sumitomo Chemical’s implementation of the Ariel SAP EH&S solution builds upon the company’s success with 3E’s Ariel WebInsight web-based regulatory data reference tool. The continued use of WebInsight along with the integration of Ariel content into SAP EH&S will provide Sumitomo Chemical with a powerful combination of best-in-class EH&S regulatory resources to bolster its Responsible Care program and help it reliably produce MSDSs for countries where it has limited local knowledge.

“This is the first major implementation of regulatory content and rules into SAP EH&S for the Japanese chemical industry,” said Alfred Voskian, from 3E Company’s European and Asia Business Development group. “3E Company is proud to have been chosen to support this venture and we look forward to continuing our long and productive relationship with Sumitomo Chemical.”

“We have been using Ariel WebInsight for more than ten years and have been quite impressed with the data coverage, scope, and quality. We chose to build upon this and expand our use of Ariel content into SAP EH&S since we believe it offers the most comprehensive and accurate chemical regulatory content available today,” said Masaharu Kimura, Manager Responsible Care Office, Sumitomo Chemical. “We have a long relationship with 3E Company and we are confident that the Company is committed to understanding and meeting the needs of global companies like ours.”

3E Company’s own Ariel Global Research Team uses documented best practice methodology and direct relationships with regulatory bodies across the globe to gather, refine and maintain Ariel data. The team tracks changes to legislation already covered in Ariel products and services and identifies new legislation that enhances the Ariel global regulatory database. 3E Company’s content offering is constantly growing, but currently contains more than 700 complete regulatory lists covering nearly 4,000 data elements spanning more than 75 countries around the world.

About 3E Company
3E Company is the first company to provide a comprehensive suite of services for environmental, health and safety (EH&S) related chemical and hazardous materials information and compliance management that addresses the entire chemical lifecycle. This suite of services includes regulatory research; MSDS authoring, distribution and management; transportation; emergency response; training; regulatory reporting; and hazardous waste management. 3E has the industry leading combination of a 24-7-365 hazmat mission control call center, with an online platform for hazmat compliance information management, all built on a foundation of the world's premier hazardous substance database of global regulatory and compliance information. Its international, multi-lingual professional staff is composed of regulatory specialists, experienced product stewards, industrial hygienists, attorneys, chemists and chemical engineers, MSDS experts and EH&S systems consultants.

3E's services offer a cost effective program for global regulatory compliance management by alleviating the pain, managing risk, increasing the efficiency and enhancing staff productivity and enabling EH&S professionals to focus on more strategic functions. Today more than 7,000 customers have partnered with 3E including Costco Wholesale Corporation, America West, Eastman Chemical, Temple-Inland, Menasha and PacifiCorp. 3E was founded in 1988 and is the recipient of the 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2006 Commitment to Worker Safety Awards in Online and MSDS Services from Compliance Magazine, which also recognized 3E Online-MSDS in 2005 with an Award of Excellence for its Best of the Web Awards. The privately held company is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA with additional operations in Bethesda, MD, Massillon, OH, Kingsport, TN, Montreal, Quebec and Copenhagen, Denmark. For more information on 3E Company, visit www.3ecompany.com, send e-mail to info@3ecompany.com or call 800-360-3220, 760-602-8700 or, in Europe, +45 70 22 81 70.

About Sumitomo Chemical
Sumitomo Chemical is one of Japan’s leading chemical companies, offering a diverse range of products globally in the fields of basic chemicals, petrochemicals, fine chemicals, IT-related chemicals and materials, agricultural chemicals, and pharmaceuticals. The company’s consolidated net sales for fiscal 2008 were US$18.9 billion (JPY1.9 trillion). For additional information, visit the company’s website at www.sumitomo-chem.co.jp/english/