Promoting Business That Helps Solve Social Issues

In order to fulfill our responsibility as a member of society as we meet stakeholder expectations, it is necessary that we think together as one about healthy, sustainable corporate growth and medium-term increase in corporate value. We proactively engage in management with consideration for ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) through business operations that create new advanced functions from plastics.

Our Business Philosophy is that: “Our Company places prime importance on trust and sureness, and shall commit itself to contributing to the progress of society and enhancement of people’s welfare and livelihood through its business activities.” In keeping with this, we have helped solve social issues that have arisen from time to time by expanding the potential of plastics through technological innovation.” Based on this thinking, we engage in ESG management in order to help solve social issues, defining our materialities as “issues related to ensuring harmony with environment,” “issues related to providing safety and peace of mind,” “issues impacting society,” and “issues representing the foundation of business activities.”

In fiscal 2015, we identified our Company’s materiality (priority items) in order to determine the social issues we should address and to carry out sustainability activities closely in tune with the needs and expectations of stakeholders in an integrated manner on a company-wide basis. In fiscal 2016 and beyond, we have been reviewing and will continue to review the materiality we have identified, and continue to carry out activities.

The materiality items of our Group are as follows. We examine the activities of our business operations that involve ESG with reference to SDGs, and then promote those operations through which we can contribute to solving social issues, advancing initiatives toward specific materialities so as to help achieve SDGs.