Mitsui Chemicals Included on Dow Jones Best-in-Class Asia Pacific Index (DJBiC Asia Pacific) for Eighth Straight Year
2026.05.20
Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Tokyo: 4183; President & CEO: ICHIMURA Satoshi) today announced that it has again been included in the Dow Jones Best-in-Class Indices (DJBiC)*1, a global benchmark for measuring environmental, social and governance (ESG) investments. Having first been added to the DJSI Asia Pacific in 2018, Mitsui Chemicals has now managed to maintain its listing here for a eighth consecutive year following the index’s annual review for 2025.
Developed by U.S.-based company S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC, the DJBiC evaluates corporate sustainability on the basis of economic, environmental and social factors to select the leading sustainability-driven companies. The DJBiC Asia Pacific covers approximately 600 major companies in the Asia–Pacific region, with 162 companies – including 76 Japanese companies – having been selected in 2025.
On top of its inclusion here, Mitsui Chemicals has been selected as part of the FTSE4Good Index Series and the MSCI ESG Leaders Indexes, both of which are global investment indices similar to the DJSI. Mitsui Chemicals also has been chosen to feature in six other stock indices utilized by Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), the world’s largest retirement scheme.*2
- FTSE Blossom Japan Index
- FTSE Blossom Japan Sector Relative Index
- MSCI Nihonkabu ESG Select Leaders Index
- MSCI Japan Empowering Women Index (WIN)
- Morningstar Japan ex-REIT Gender Diversity Tilt Index
- S&P/JPX Carbon Efficient Index
The Mitsui Chemicals Group positions ESG at the core of its management and is committed to addressing social issues through its businesses. By deepening initiatives such as Blue Value™ products and services, which are aimed at contributing to the environment, and Rose Value™ products and service, which serve to improve quality of life (QOL)*3, we aim to be a global solutions company that contributes to a sustainable future.
■ For our group's ESG initiatives, please see "Sustainability" (Mitsui Chemicals Group ESG Report 2025) *4 on our official website.
*1 Dow Jones Best-in-Class Indices
https://www.spglobal.com/esg/csa/djsi-csa-annual-review
*2 ESG Indices
https://jp.mitsuichemicals.com/en/sustainability/others/evaluation/outside/index.htm
*3 Blue Value™ Environmental Contributions and Rose Value™ QOL Improvement Contributions
https://jp.mitsuichemicals.com/en/sustainability/mci_sustainability/contribution_value/ms/index.htm
Our Blue Value™ and Rose Value™ help visualize the contributions our products and services make to the environment and society and enable us to share those values with stakeholders. We evaluate our products and services that make significant contributions to the environment or improvements to QOL and certified them as Blue Value™ and Rose Value™ products respectively by checking application-specific contributions at each stage of the product lifecycle.
*4 Mitsui Chemicals Group ESG Report 2025
https://jp.mitsuichemicals.com/en/sustainability/index.htm
