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SDGs Efforts

ESG Basic Policy

We are confronted with a broad range of issues, from environmental problems such as global warming, resource depletion and a crisis of biodiversity to an increasing population that causes food resource and energy problems amid rapid globalization and an increasingly information-based society. We look to take on these challenges and to protect our environment and way of life while improving safety and levels of comfort. To do these things, we believe that “chemistry provides a solution” and shall contribute to the establishment of a sustainable society.

Priority themes Material Issues for DKS DKS initiatives
❶ Quality Management
  • 3 GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
  • 12 RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION & PRODUCTION
  • Thorough quality assurance system
  • Global supply chain management
  • Food hygiene management initiatives (HACCP certification)
  • Initiatives towards a management system equivalent to handling pharmaceuticals
  • Promoting occupational safety and health
  • Continuous improvements through occupational safety and health management systems
  • Implement hands-on safety education
❷ Research and Development
  • 3 HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
  • 7 AFFORDABLE AND CLEAN ENERGY
  • 9 INDUSTRY, INNOVATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE
  • 12 RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION & PRODUCTION
  • 13 CLIMATE ACTION
  • 17 PARTNERSHIPS FOR THE GOALS
  • R&D framework aligned with Uni-Top strategies
  • Establishment of research centers for each customer
  • Strengthen initiatives with inspiring/inspired partners
  • Developing products that contribute to the environment
  • Promote product development with lower environmental impacts, such as additives for biodegradable plastics
  • Promoting an intellectual property strategy
  • Prompt applications for IP rights and aggressive pursuit of quick IP rights acquisition
❸ Human Resource Management
  • 3 HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
  • 5 GENDER EQUALITY
  • 8 DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
  • 9 INDUSTRY, INNOVATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE
  • 17 PARTNERSHIPS FOR THE GOALS
  • Diversity
  • Provide workplaces and opportunities for the active participation of female employees
  • Appoint female officers and hire overseas employees
  • Work-style reforms
  • Implement personnel system reforms with an emphasis on outcomes
  • Employment initiatives for people with disabilities
  • Human resource development
  • Implementation of a DX human resource development program
  • Secure and train global human resources
  • Health and Productivity Management initiatives
  • Improve health awareness by adopting a health information app
  • Efforts to establish exercise habits (DKS Calisthenics)
❹ Consideration for the Environment
  • 7 AFFORDABLE AND CLEAN ENERGY
  • 12 RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION & PRODUCTION
  • 13 CLIMATE ACTION
  • Responding to decarbonization and reducing environmental burdens
  • Green transformation (GX) initiatives
  • Renewable energy (biomass power generation)
  • Product development for moving beyond green vehicles (strengthen the battery cell business)
  • Formulate climate change countermeasures, CN2050 plan, strategies, KPI
  • Initiatives for TCFD
  • Contributing to a recycling-oriented society
  • Contribution to a recycling-oriented society through responsible care activities
  • Traceability systems (review inventory volume, product loss rates, product profit margins)
  • Appropriate management of chemical substances
  • Respond to more stringent legal regulations
  • Reduce emissions of PRTR Regulation-designated substance
❺ Contributing to a Collaborative Society
  • 1 NO POVERTY
  • 3 GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
  • 8 DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
  • 9 INDUSTRY, INNOVATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE
  • 11 SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES
  • 12 RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION & PRODUCTION
  • 15 LIFE ON LAND
  • 17 PARTNERSHIPS FOR THE GOALS
  • Regional revitalization
  • Promotion of initiatives with local governments
  • Industry-government-academia collaboration
  • Initiatives for Sericulture Innovation
  • Co-prosperity with the supply chain
  • Switch to renewable resources and natural materials
  • Effective use of the peeled skins of sudachi (Japanese citrus)
  • Work to improve added value throughout the supply chain from “Tier N” to “Tier N+1”
❻ Organizational Resilience
  • 12 RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION & PRODUCTION
  • 16 PEACE, JUSTICE AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS
  • 17 PARTNERSHIPS FOR THE GOALS
  • Responding to the digitization of society
  • Superior, imitation-proof craftsmanship (Uni-Top strategy)
  • Rebuild core technologies and know-how (standardize expert craftsmanship)
  • Acquisition of DX Certification
  • Strengthen information security measures, cybersecurity response
  • Digitization of information dissemination
  • Digitize communication/PR tools
  • Strengthen communication/PR with individual consumers
  • Acquisition of new customers through web marketing
  • Further deepening of corporate governance
  • Strategies for improving medium- to long-term corporate value
  • Improve effectiveness of the Board of Directors and establish an appropriate remuneration scheme
  • Strengthening dialogue with shareholders and investors
  • Create a governance system in line with ESG strategies
❼ Tackling NEXT and DREAM Businesses
  • 3 GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
  • 9 INDUSTRY, INNOVATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE
  • 12 RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION & PRODUCTION
  • 17 PARTNERSHIPS FOR THE GOALS
  • Development of the Life Science business
  • Initiatives to extend healthy life expectancy
  • Establish B-to-C business
  • Notification of food products with functional claims
  • R&D to improve cognitive function
  • Development of the NEXT businesses
  • Open innovation
  • Respond to industry reorganization
  • Execute M&A that contributes to growth

Priority Themes & Focuses of SDGs

Following the principles of our Company Credo and Company Mottoes, and taking into consideration the technologies and various experiences we have amassed over 113 years as a chemical manufacturer, we have taken the SDGs (17 goals and 169 targets) and linked them with specific themes related to contributions that DKS can make to solving social issues. From this, we identified five SDGs to which we will dedicate particular effort.

Five focus SDGs determined from discussions in 2017:

  • 3:
    Health and Productivity Management, an aging society with a declining birthrate

  • 7:
    Renewable energy, environmentally conscious raw materials

  • 9:
    Development and provision of industrial materials for building social infrastructure

  • 12:
    Environmental pollution, natural resource depletion

  • 17:
    Inspiring/Inspired Partners

Important Issue Identification Process

At DKS, we are identifying material issues, tackling important issues from a long-term perspective in management. Based on existing social issues and our corporate philosophy, we have identified seven important themes from the two perspectives of their significance to DKS and our stakeholders. At the same time, we have specified the material issues of challenges toward addressing these themes. In the identification of those material issues, we have referenced the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), ISO 26000, and other global guidelines, given the important demands the international society places on DKS as we work to advance business globally.

Step 1 Identify the importance for the Company　Step 2 Identify the importance for stakeholders Step 3 Draw a material issues map　Step 4 Identify the material issues
Important Issue Identification Aims
Issues for society
Environmental issuesClimate change, energy depletion, biodiversity, etc.
Social issuesChanges in social structure due to population growth, increased security risks due to technological advances and the advent of the information society, public health, food crises, elimination of disparities, etc.
Corporate Philosophy and Management Policy
Corporate mission stated in the founding spirit and the Company Credo
Happiness-based management

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