Sustainability Management
Sustainability Promotion Plan and KPIs
- Nisshinbo Group
6th Sustainability Plan
(Fiscal Years 2025–2027)
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The Nisshinbo Group established three-year targets in its sustainability promotion plan and is promoting initiatives throughout the entire group, both in Japan and overseas, to achieve these targets. While all employees work toward their goals, we aim to monitor progress using KPIs*1 and further enhance the quality of activities to achieve even better results.
*1 KPIs: Key Performance Indicators, numerical representation of the degree to which a goal has been achieved.
Nisshinbo Micro Devices Group's Fifth Term/2024 Sustainability Promotion Plan Achievement Status-
Materiality: Contribution to the environmental and energy field
| The Nisshinbo Group's Initiative | Achievement Status in FY2024 | ||
| Key Action Items | Initiatives | Target KPIs | |
| Promote environmental management | Improvement of the sales percentage by the products that contribute to the development of the sustainable society | 60% or more of total sales | 65.6% |
| Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions | Reduce by 5% or more compared to FY2021 | Reduce by 15.8% | |
| Reinforcement of the maintenance of biodiversity | Activities inside and outside Japan at more than 1 new sites | “NISDAT’s conservation activities in the Kashibaru Wetland” | |
| Reduction of water usage per unit of sales | Reduce by 1% or more compared to the previous fiscal year | Increased by 27% | |
| Promote life cycle assessment *1 (LCA) | 60% or more of total sales | 74.2% | |
| Reduction of the energy consumption per unit of sales | Reduce by 5% or more compared to FY2021 | Increased by 8% | |
| Reduction of the volume of PRTR substances*2 emissions per unit of sales | Reduce by 30% or more compared to FY2014 Targets: Saga – heavy oil; Kawagoe – hydrogen fluoride, NMP |
Increased by 83.8% | |
| Improvement of recycling rate | Increase the recycling rate to 90% or more | 96.4% | |
- *1Life Cycle Assessment: Grasping the amount of environmental impact throughout the product life cycle, from raw materials to production, use, and disposal
- *2PRTR substances: Substances subject to the Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR) system pursuant to the Act on the Confirmation, etc. of Release Amounts of Specific Chemical Substances in the Environment and Promotion of Improvements to the Management Thereof
Materiality: Creation of a Safe and Secure Society
| The Nisshinbo Group's Initiative | Achievement Status in FY2024 | ||
| Key Action Items | Initiatives | Target KPIs | |
| Respect Human Rights | Promoting human rights awareness-raising activities | Rate of implementation of Group Human Rights Training, 100% | 100% |
| Promoting business and human rights activities | [Qualitative Target] Develop human rights policy,introduce and promote Human Rights Due Diligence in fields with high human rights risks |
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| Human Resource Acquisition and Training | Training of management candidates necessary for business promotion | [Qualitative Target] Increase the rate of participants in the Successor Program in senior management posts (executive officers and above) |
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| Strengthening mid-career recruitment to improve the age structure of human resources | [Qualitative Target] Strengthen mid-career recruitment to improve the age structure of human resources |
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| Engagement | Conducting employee survey | [Qualitative Target] Continue to conduct employee survey |
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| Promote diversity | Group-wide D&I Penetration Initiatives | [Qualitative Target] Communicating the top management message and implementing measures that contribute to the success of diverse human resources |
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| Securing diverse human resources | Ratio of female recruitment to total recruits a) Mid-carrier: Administrative occupations, 50% b) New graduate: Office occupations, 50% c) New graduate: Technical occupations, 20% |
a) 100% b) 33% c) 27% |
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| Promotion of diverse human resources | Rate of managers hired as mid-career employees to total managers, 11% (Target value as of the end of FY2024) |
4% | |
| Rate of female managers to total managers, 6% (Target value as of the end of FY2024) |
6.9% | ||
| Rate of training on psychological safety, 100% | 100% | ||
| Creation of a comfortable workplace environment for employees | Rate of taking annual paid leave, 70% or more | 71.6% | |
| Rate of male employees taking childcare leave, 30% or more of eligible male employees | 56.8% | ||
| Promote activities for occupational safety and health | Prevention of occupational injuries | The number of serious accidents "0" | 0 cases |
| Cultivate employee health | Promotion health management | Rate of patients receiving detailed examinations after regular health checkups, 85% or more | 87.1% |
| Implementation rate of health guidance for high-risk workers, 100% | 94.4% | ||
| Improve quality and customer satisfaction | Continuous promotion of measures to improve customer satisfaction | The number of violations of the Product Liability Act "0" | Number of violations 0 cases |
Materiality: Global Compliance
| The Nisshinbo Group's Initiative | Achievement Status in FY2024 | ||
| Key Action Items | Initiatives | Target KPIs | |
| Practice the Group's Corporate Philosophy | Communicating management's messages based on the Group's Corporate Philosophy | Promote the practice of the Group's Corporate Philosophy, VALUE, and Business Conduct Guidelines (Affirmation rate in employee survey, 80% or more) |
100% |
| Thorough compliance | Raising awareness of compliance | Rate of compliance training participation by management-level personnel, 100% | 100% |
| Operating the corporate ethics reporting systems | Response rate to corporate ethics reporting system, 100% | 100% | |
| Promotion of sustainable procurement | Improving CSR procurement in collaboration with suppliers | Evaluation of improvement efforts based on the results of the sustainable survey to major suppliers (more than 80% of transaction amount), 100% | 100% |
| Implementation of global response | [Qualitative Target] Consideration and implementation of deployment methods to the supply chain at overseas business connection and critical overseas locations |
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| Expanding internal awareness-raising activities | Implementation rate of training for purchasing staff (annual theme), 100% | 100% | |
Promotion System for Sustainability Activity
- Promotion System for
Sustainability Activity
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The Nisshinbo Group has established the Group Sustainability Promotion Council, which is headed by the Managing Officer and includes Sustainability Promotion Managers and other members from each business group, to promote sustainability initiatives across the entire group based on its corporate governance system. In addition to formulating policies, key action items, and KPls, the Council regularly shares information on the status of implementation and issues. Specific activities are carried out mainly by individual expert committees.
Human Rights Due Diligence Initiatives
- Nisshinbo Group
Human Rights Due Diligence
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The Nisshinbo Group regards respect for human rights as a fundamental principle of its management and established the “Human Rights Policy” in August 2023. This policy is positioned as the highest-level guideline for addressing human rights in our business activities. We respect the human rights of all stakeholders, including employees, business partners, and local communities, and contribute to the realization of a sustainable society through human rights due diligence.
Nisshinbo Micro Devices Group Initiatives
In addition to the Nisshinbo Group’s company-wide initiatives to promote understanding, the Nisshinbo Micro Devices Group has carried out its own training programs and measures to further deepen awareness and engagement.
- For deepening understandings on human rights due diligence, we Nisshinbo Micro Devices Group conducted not only the Nisshinbo-Group-wide training sessions but also our own training using our Learning management System.
- For awareness activities, we published on the intranet a video announcing and recognizing the results of the human rights slogan contest, and reinforced communication of the Human Rights Policy.
External Evaluation
The Nisshinbo Micro Devices Group is committed to sustainability initiatives and has received evaluations and certifications from domestic and international ESG rating agencies.
Rated “Silver” in EcoVadis’ sustainability assessment
The Nisshinbo Micro Devices Group has received a “Silver” rating in the sustainability assessment conducted by EcoVadis, an internationally recognized rating agency headquartered in France. This Silver rating is awarded to companies that rank within the top 15% among more than 150,000 companies across 185 countries and 250 industries worldwide. Our group will continue to focus on the four key areas of “Environment,” “Labor and Human Rights,” “Ethics,” and “Sustainable Procurement,” and remain committed to contributing to the realization of a sustainable society.
Certified as a “KENKO Investment for Health 2025”
Nisshinbo Micro Devices Inc. has been certified as a “KENKO Investment for Health 2025” in the Large Enterprise Category under the certification program designed by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and selected by Nippon KENKO Kaigi (the Japan Health Conference).
Certified as an “Eruboshi” company promoting women’s empowerment
Nisshinbo Micro Devices Inc. has obtained the third-level “Eruboshi” certification under the Act on Promotion of Women’s Participation and Advancement in the Workplace, as a company that meets the highest standards set by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare for initiatives promoting women’s empowerment.
