# ITOCHU Announces Comprehensive Partnership on Selling All of Methionine Produced by SUMITOMO CHEMICAL | Press Releases | ITOCHU Corporation

> ITOCHU announced a comprehensive partnership to sell all methionine produced by Sumitomo Chemical at its Ehime Works from April 2025. The release describes the existing 2017 sales partnership and the cost position of Sumitomo's integrated plant. It notes methionine market growth of about 4% annually.

- Date: 2025-02-27 · published 2025-02-27T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: trade · region Japan · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/26401-itochu-announces-comprehensive-partnership-on-selling-all-of-methionine
- Commodities: [Methionine](https://feedsoft.ai/c/METH.md)

## Why it matters

Exclusive marketing of a major Japanese methionine plant's output concentrates sales through one channel. This has little immediate price impact but affects who supplies methionine to feed buyers.

## Read by commodity

- METH: neutral

## Sources

- itochu.co.jp: https://www.itochu.co.jp/en/news/press/2025/250227.html

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