Think Globally, Act Locally —CSR Report2014— /

News 3 Vol.66

A booklet in Japanese and English describing the environmental and CSR activities undertaken by the Polyplastics Group in 2013 was issued in June and distributed to all group employees.
The content is also reflected on the CSR page of the group Web site in July.


Booklet


Web page update
English Ver.
http://www.polyplastics.com/en/company/csr/index.vm
Chinese Ver.
http://www.polyplastics.com/ch/company/csr/index.vm

Formerly the booklet was available only in Japanese. However, because the booklet is read by people worldwide, last year we added English text for the first time.

This year the booklet was prepared in separate Japanese and English versions to further enhance readability.

We hope you’ll take the time to read through your copy!

The table of contents of this year’s report is as follows.

Contents
Corporate Philosophy
Top Message
Our Product
Highlight of 2013
Polyplastics,supporting on-site development type manufacturing
-Activities of the overseas TSCs of Polyplastics Group
-Collaboration with Hi-Lex Corporation
ESH Activities
Social Activities
Polyplastics’ Management

Next, we give a preview of some of the content.

Top Message

"Endeavoring to be a Good Company that Contributes to the Happiness of All People"
A message to everyone from President Goto on the occasion of issuance of the report.
The results of the mid-term plan, which ended in 2013, are summarized in the following three points.

  1. Serving our global customers as a global company
  2. Advancing technological innovations in the environment and energy fields
  3. Developing human resources to develop competence in global business

In order to further enhance the Polyplastics-Way development, sales and marketing activities, President Goto stresses the importance of the group TSCs acting in collaboration. He also states his expectation that the Fuji Plant, including the TSC in Japan, will act as the mother plant in passing on technologies and producing innovations.

Highlight of 2013

Highlights of 2013 introduces two examples of technical support provided directly on-site for customers’ product development efforts on the common theme “Polyplastics‚ supporting on-site development type manufacturing.”
*Activities of the overseas TSCs of Polyplastics Group
- The ASEAN TSC, which has advanced the construction of intellectual infrastructure in Thailand
*Collaboration with Hi-Lex Corporation
- Trilateral cooperation between Japan, China and India for design development

Social Contribution Activities

Social contribution activities undertaken by group companies are introduced by category.
The group companies report on local community projects and environmental protection activities they undertook and participated in during 2013.

There is also a special column that describes in detail activities undertaken at PTM and PAP.

We are grateful to everyone in the Polyplastics Group who helped prepare the report, and also to those of our customers who cooperated in gathering news and information for the report. In the years ahead, we will make every effort to further improve the CSR Report. We hope you will aid in this effort by letting us know your thoughts and ideas. The editorial team will conduct a survey through Lotus Notes database soon. Please cooperate on this occasion.