Supporting the Creation of Sustainable Society
Through Company-wide Efforts to Revitalize
Our Organization and Develop Our Business

In accordance with its five-year Medium-term Management Plan, “Shin-Etsu Polymer Global & Growth 2027” announced in fiscal 2023, we continue to strive to capture new demands in growth areas and strengthen our sales capabilities in base areas. The semiconductor-related containers, which are considered as a growth area, are expected to grow in the future with a cessation of the recent demand adjustment, reflecting the increase in demand for semiconductors due to the spread of AI and other factors. Anticipating these changes in market conditions, the Group has made strategic investments to expand the Itoigawa Plant and construct a new building at the Tokyo Plant, thereby establishing a mass production system. At the same time, we are reorganizing production bases to promote measures to improve profitability in our base areas, including food packaging materials and products related to office automation equipment.

To enable continued growth of the Company for a prolonged period of time, sustainability initiatives are essential as the foundation of our business activities. Our Group has identified “energy saving, resource saving, and reducing our impact on the environment” as key sustainability issues. To achieve the common global target of reducing CO2 emissions, we have set specific targets to reduce CO2 emissions by 46% compared
to fiscal 2013 by 2030 and become carbon neutral by 2050.
To realize these targets, we will continue to pursue our energy saving activities, such as switching to energy-efficient equipment.
Moreover, it is in progress to switch electric power to renewable energy for all plants in order to accelerate the reduction of CO2 emissions.

We are also focusing our efforts on initiatives related to “respect for human rights, diversity promotion, and CSR procurement promotion,” which are key elements in supporting sustainability as the Group develops its business activities on a global scale. We have strengthened multilingual support by launching the “supplier hotline,” which is essential for human rights risk management, in Chinese as well. Based on our activities till date, we will revise the new promotion system for human rights due diligence and promote activities to reduce human rights risks in the supply chain. Moreover, as one of the “diversity promotion” activities, we consider “promotion of women’s activities” to be a key issue. We are fostering a corporate culture of mutual respect and cooperation by steadily increasing the number of female managers in an endeavor to narrow the gap in the average years of service between male and female employees, and promoting an increase in the percentage of male employees taking childcare leave. While improving and reforming work styles, education systems, and compensations, we intend to create a workplace where diverse human resources can enjoy their work and become the driving force for the next generation.

Our products support the global society in various ways and contribute to building the future. As a leading resin processing manufacturer even in a constantly changing social environment and market conditions, we are committed to revitalizing our organization and developing our business as a whole, thereby supporting the realization of a sustainable society.