A Message from our Director In-charge of Sustainability

The “VUCA Era” of highly uncertain business environments demands that companies adopt long-term-perspective management policies, and act in ways that repay society’s trust more than ever before. As a chemical-handling company, our responsibilities to ensure safety, maintain and improve quality, and reduce environmental burdens are especially great and form the very nucleus of our business.

At this juncture has our company fixed Evolution2035, our Long-term Management Plan based on our vision of where we wish to be in ten years’ time. To achieve that vision, we have reassessed our materiality circumstances by determining key issues. The current reassessment has seen us calculate back from our end vision, and organize our mission in the form of concrete targets for 2028 and 2035. We have also considered affairs from double-materiality viewpoints, given that as our business expands, societal demands around product safety and quality, and our responsibilities to the environment, will yet further increase. Based on that, in addition to corporate growth, are we fixing our gaze upon effects on society and the environment, and managing our business accordingly.

In the environmental field, whereas amounts for VOC emissions and industrial waste were previously confined to business result disclosures, we have now set clear targets and thereby boosted initiative efficiency. Regarding human capital, through optimizing our human resources portfolio and strengthening investments in training, we have strategically developed specialist staff for management, digital, finance and global roles, and are striving for compatibility between business growth and value creation. Additionally, wherever possible, each of our targets is fixed and disclosed on a continuous basis, enabling us to increase transparency and effectiveness across the entire Group. Furthermore, a director-in-charge has been assigned to each individual matter so as to clarify exactly who is responsible for meeting each target.