EcoVadis Awards Mitsui Chemicals Gold Rating in Sustainability

Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Tokyo: 4183; President & CEO: HASHIMOTO Osamu) has been awarded a Gold rating in sustainability by French company EcoVadis SAS*¹. The Gold Rating is given to companies that have scored in the top 5 percent of all evaluated companies.

EcoVadis uses proprietary criteria based on international sustainability standards to provide a highly trusted collaborative platform for evaluating organizations and companies on sustainability. These evaluations are made in a comprehensive manner based on the four themes of Environment, Labor & Human Rights, Ethics and Sustainable Procurement.  EcoVadis has evaluated more than 100,000 companies across 175 countries and 200 industries to date.

To help realize ideal future society, which are a circular society in harmony with the environment, an inclusive society creating diverse value as well as a comfortable society in which people can enjoy healthy lives and well-being, the Mitsui Chemicals Group is looking to deepen its efforts to create societal value. This includes providing Blue Value™ products and services, which come in aim of contributing to the environment, and Rose Value™ products and services, which come in aim of improving quality of life (QOL) ^*2. Through these efforts and more, the Mitsui Chemicals Group is striving to advance a sustainable future both for itself and for society as a whole.

Our group's initiatives for the sustainable development of society and Mitsui Chemicals Group are posted on our sustainability website^{* 3} with the aim of promoting a better understanding of our stakeholders.

*2   Blue Value^TM and Rose Value^TM:
https://jp.mitsuichemicals.com/en/sustainability/mci_sustainability/contribution_value/index.htm

Our Blue Value™ and Rose Value™ help visualize the contributions our products and services make to the environment and society, enabling us to share those values with stakeholders so we can realize a future ideal society.

*3  Mitsui Chemicals’ sustainability website:　https://jp.mitsuichemicals.com/en/sustainability/index.htm