Key Issues (Materiality)
Process for Identifying Key Issues
Key Issues and Initiatives
Key Issues and Initiatives
The identified key issues were classified as "issues for which the Group’s business has an impact on society ," " issues for which the Group’s business can contribute to society," and "underlying issues."
Issues for which the Group’s business has an impact on society
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- Climate change responses (reduction of GHG emissions)
- Air environment preservation
- Water resource protection and control
- Biodiversity
- Industrial waste control
- Efficient use of resources
- Stable supply of industrial materials
- Optimization of production
- Safety and prevention
- Labor conditions
- Product stewardship
- Quality of products and services
- Employment and human resources
- Stakeholder engagement
Issues for which the Group’s business can contribute to society
Low environmental footprint products and services
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group's Vision
- Reducing environmental impact including addressing climate change, we are working to achieve a low-carbon, sound material-cycle society in harmony with nature over the long term that curbs environmental burdens to the greatest extent possible throughout the entire value chain.
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group's initiatives
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- Reduce the use of raw materials
- Switch to non-fossil fuel resources and substances with lower environmental burdens
- Reduce environmental burdens mainly by lowering energy consumption in manufacturing and processing processes
- Develop lightweight materials for use mainly in automobiles
Climate Change and Problems with Plastic
The 2025 Long-term Business Plan Environmental and Social Targets
Development of renewable energy
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group's Vision
- Meet the growing demand for energy accompanying the economic development of developing countries and emerging markets, reduce accompanying environment burdens, and realize a society that makes greater use of renewable energy.
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group's initiatives
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- Develop components/materials for such items as power generation equipment and storage batteries to increase the use of renewable energy
- Improve photovoltaic power generation plant operational efficiency and assist with related investment decisions
Renewable Energy-related Business
Shift to urbanization and smart cities
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group's Vision
- Enhancement of smart society and urban functions that bring people and various things together by leveraging the advantages found in concentrating social infrastructure amid progressive urbanization.
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group's initiatives
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- Develop and provide solutions through technologies and products that contribute to the spread of automated driving and robots
The 2025 Long-term Business Plan Environmental and Social Targets
Declining birth-rate and aging population
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group's Vision
- Realization of a society that provides abundant, high-quality lifestyles to children and the elderly amid changing demographics.
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group's initiatives
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- Develop and provide products that contribute to comfortable lifestyles in such areas as materials used to make disposable diapers and underwear
- Develop and provide products that contribute to comfortable lifestyles including innovative packaging that makes food easier to eat
- Develop and provide products that support extensive family care
The 2025 Long-term Business Plan Environmental and Social Targets
Advancement of medical and pharmaceutical fields
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group's Vision
- Realization of healthy and comfortable lifestyles in an aging society by improving the quality of medical treatments.
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group's initiatives
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- Develop and provide products that help people use their entire bodies (head, neck, chest, hands, and feet) and five senses (sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch)
- Develop and provide products that contribute to extend healthy life expectancy, including pharmaceutical packaging materials and infusion bags
- Develop and provide products that help prevent infectious diseases
- Develop diagnostic technologies that leverage an understanding of chemistry
The 2025 Long-term Business Plan Environmental and Social Targets
Food problems
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group's Vision
- Provide sufficient nutrition to everyone and improve dietary habits throughout society by increasing food productivity and reducing food loss and waste.
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group's initiatives
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- Develop and provide products that help increase food production
- Develop and provide products that extend expiry dates and reduce food loss
- Develop and provide products that help reduce food waste while contributing stable food distribution
The 2025 Long-term Business Plan Environmental and Social Targets
Issues for which the Group’s business has an impact on society
Climate change responses (reduction of GHG emissions)
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group's Vision
- In light of the impact of climate change, significantly reduce and mitigate the effect of greenhouse gases emitted during the course of our business activities.
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group's initiatives
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- Address climate change
Climate Change and Problems with Plastic
Environmental Protection Management System
Environmental Protection GHG and Energy
The 2025 Long-term Business Plan Environmental and Social Targets
Air environment preservation
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group's Vision
- In addition to complying with the laws and regulations of individual countries, the Mitsui Chemicals Group controls gas emissions and reduces the impact of chemical substances leaking into the atmosphere.
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group's initiatives
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- Manage substances subject to the PRTR Act
- Preserve the air environment
Environmental Protection Management System
Environmentally Hazardous Substances
Water resource protection and control
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group's Vision
- Realization of environments that allow for the efficient use of water by complying with laws and regulations of individual countries, recycling, and appropriately managing and improving the handling of such water contaminants.
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group's initiatives
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- Preserve water resources
Environmental Protection Management System
Environmentally Hazardous Substances
Biodiversity
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group's Vision
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group takes into consideration biodiversity in its business operations across the entire value chain and is contributing to sustainable environmental conservation.
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group's initiatives
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- Preserve Biodiversity
Environmental Protection Management System
Industrial waste control
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group's Vision
- We continue to minimize the amount of industrial waste produced at all of our domestic and overseas manufacturing sites and reduce final landfill waste volume.
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group's initiatives
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- Reduce industrial waste
Environmental Protection Management System
Efficient use of resources
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group's Vision
- More efficiently use fuel and resources at domestic and overseas manufacturing sites (including product raw materials) and further undertake the creation of innovative process technologies.
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group's initiatives
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- Develop environmentally friendly production technologies
Climate Change and Problems with Plastic
Environmental Protection Management System
Environmental Protection GHG and Energy
Stable supply of industrial materials
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group's Vision
- Stably provide industrial materials throughout the wide-ranging global supply chain in order to achieve sustainable economic growth and an abundant society.
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group's initiatives
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- Restructure to realize stable procurement and supply
Optimization of production
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group's Vision
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group contributes to the sustainable development of regions by optimizing production systems and facilities that leverage its expertise throughout the global supply chain.
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group's initiatives
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- Establish an optimal production system based on frontline capabilities
Safety and Prevention
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group's Vision
- Aim to be recognized by society as a company with an exemplary safety record.
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group's initiatives
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- Safety and Prevention
The 2025 Long-term Business Plan Environmental and Social Targets
Labor conditions
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group's Vision
- Engage in health management by enhancing tangible measures such as improving work environments and facilities to enable employees to continue contributing to business sustainability as well as pursuing intangible measures that focus on healthcare.
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group's initiatives
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- Create an employee-friendly working environment
Human Resources Management Management System
Employee-friendly Working Environment
Product stewardship
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group's Vision
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group strictly adheres to laws and regulations as well as its own voluntary standards throughout the entire supply chain. In addition, the Group will take steps to minimize the negative impact of chemicals on people’s health and the environment by the year 2020 as part of its product stewardship activities.
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group's initiatives
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- Engage in product stewardship
The 2025 Long-term Business Plan Environmental and Social Targets
Quality of products and services
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group's Vision
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group will improve quality control including upstream areas throughout the entire supply chain as well as increase customer satisfaction by winning their trust in the area of product quality.
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group's initiatives
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- Engage in quality management
Quality of products and services
The 2025 Long-term Business Plan Environmental and Social Targets
Employment and human resources
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group's Vision
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group is creating organizations that continue to drive innovation that takes into consideration equality, fairness, diversity, human rights, and living wages while giving our employees a sense of personal and professional motivation.
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group's initiatives
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- Develop human resources
- Ensure diversity
The 2025 Long-term Business Plan Environmental and Social Targets
Stakeholder engagement
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group's Vision
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group meets the expectations of its stakeholders as a member of society while contributing to sustainable regional development by collaborating with our partners and the areas in which the Group operates to find solutions to social problems.
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group's initiatives
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- Dialog with shareholders and investors
- Dialog with industry, government, and academia
- Working in harmony with local communities
- Social activities
Underlying issues
Sustainable Procurement
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group's Vision
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group will continue procurement activities throughout the supply chain that take into consideration its impact on society and the environment, fair and honest transactions, and respect for human rights.
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group's initiatives
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- Address conflict minerals
- Supplier sustainability evaluation and improvement support
The 2025 Long-term Business Plan Environmental and Social Targets
Compliance
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group's Vision
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group will foster a corporate culture that encourages all employees to observe laws, regulations, and rules in individual countries, take actions in a transparent and appropriate manner, and make decisions and conduct themselves in an ethical manner.
- The Mitsui Chemicals Group's initiatives
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- Ensure legal compliance
The 2025 Long-term Business Plan Environmental and Social Targets
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