Sustainability Management

In FY2022, we clarified our vision for the future of our corporate activities, which we have put into practice based on our Company Mission since our founding, in the form of our Basic Policy on Sustainability.

We position sustainable management as a high-level concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR).
To date, we have established the Sustainable Management Committee, which reports to the Board of Directors, and the CSR Promotion Management Committee, which reports to the Management Council, as conference bodies for deliberating on sustainability measures.
In FY2025, the two committees were merged into a single Sustainable Management Committee, which will report to the Management Council.
The new Sustainable Management Committee, chaired by the Director in charge of Sustainability, will organize the Company's various sustainability measures based on material issues (materialities) while identifying areas of focus and strengthening efforts in those areas.

Sustainable Management Committee

The Sustainable Management Committee examines processes of creating economic and social value for the sustainable growth of the Group. In particular, with regard to the environment, society, and governance, it is responsible for deliberating and deciding on policies and company-wide measures for resolving material issues (materialities) that should be prioritized, and for implementing those measures in relevant departments. The Management Council regularly receives reports and conducts monitoring.

[Purpose]

We will work with stakeholders to improve both our economic value and social value in order to grow sustainably as a company.

[Meetings]

In principle, four times a year

[Role]

• (1) In order to increase both economic and social value, the committee will identify material issues (materialities) that require priority attention in relation to the environment, society, and governance (ESG), deliberate on policies and company-wide measures to resolve them, and implement these measures in relevant departments.
• (2) Review the plan, progress, and results of the above measures, and deliberate and decide on improvements and corrections.
• (3) In addition, from an ESG perspective, it will deliberate and decide on initiatives needed to foster sustainable growth for the Group and realize social sustainability.
• (4) In order to appropriately communicate information about our sustainable management to stakeholders, we will deliberate and decide on the content of important external publications, including those related to sustainability.

CSR Guidelines

We believe that identifying and prioritizing medium- to long-term themes is the quickest way to create value for all stakeholders, and have therefore identified material issues (materialities).
We will address issues across four areas—environment, society, life/living, and governance—while working to “Inspire WakuWaku^* feeling from all stakeholders,” “Co-create environmental, social and economic values with stakeholders,” and “Facilitate every employee’s value creation.”

• The Japanese word which expresses positive, bright, uplifting feeling inspired by inner motivations and/or own wills.

≫ Sanyo Chemical Group Material Issues

The Environmental Management System (ISO14001) was obtained by Sanyo Chemical and our domestic subsidiaries and affiliates from 1999 to 2001 and maintained for about 20 years. However, as the Company has established a system to build a management system in line with ISO requirements and continuously promote improvements internally, it was determined that the system could be sufficiently operated in-house, leading to the decision to relinquish domestic certification in FY2020. However, our overseas subsidiaries and affiliates will continue to maintain this certification. In addition, our quality management system (ISO9001) has been certified both in Japan and overseas. The Biotechnology & Medical Division has obtained ISO13485 (Medical Devices and In-vitro Diagnostic Medical Products) certification, a quality management system specialized for pharmaceuticals.