Sustainability

Environmental
Initiatives

Environmental Management

Corporate EHS Policy (Environment, Health, and Safety)

Sugai Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. emphasizes safety in our corporate activities and establishes a comprehensive EHS management system to protect the environment and safeguard health and safety related to our employees, customers, and community.

Our Commitment

1. 1.We will improve the EHS management system continuously to better achieve our EHS policy.
2. 2.We will ensure the prevention of industrial accidents and pollution by complying with applicable legal and non-legal requirements.
3. 3.We will reduce EHS risk through risk assessment.
4. 4.We will reduce our impact on the environment by recycling waste and saving energy.

EHS Certification

As part of our EHS initiatives, we have obtained ISO 14001 certification for our environmental management system.

Reducing Environmental Impacts

We comply with environmental laws and regulations, and we are working toward the realization of a recycling-oriented society, including the implementation of measures against global warming.

Promoting Energy Efficiency and Prevention of Global Warming

• Decarbonization represents an urgent issue for the chemical industry because it consumes large quantities of energy. Given this, we built an LNG satellite station at our Fukui Site in 2017 and switched energy sources from heavy oil to LNG. This transition helps us lower our CO₂ emissions.

  LNG Satellite Station

• We also have a treatment facility to process both liquid waste and wastewater. Water after the activated sludge treatment is closely monitored for BOD, TOC, and color to ensure that water released from our site is clear and clean.

  Incinerator for Waste liquid and Activated sludge facility

Initiatives to Reduce Waste

We reuse solvents recycled in production which reduces waste and lowers costs. We also use waste such as waste solvents as fuel additives for the incinerator, which helps us reduce waste and save energy.

Initiatives for Society

Employee Engagement

Human Resource Development

Recognizing that human resource development is a material issue, we focus on the development of the next generation of employees using not only training sessions led by instructors, but also daily work duties.

Related Information

Recruitment Website (Training Programs and Human Resource Development)

Promoting Diversity and Inclusion

We aim to foster an environment of mutual respect and teamwork by promoting a diverse workforce with diverse representation of genders, age groups, and nationalities.
In April 2022, as part of our general business operator action plan, we established a plan to foster an employment environment where women can play an active role and where all employees can fully contribute their skills as well as achieve a good work-life balance.

To put this plan into action, we established the following targets.

Key Targets

1. 1.Increase the percentage of women working at the Wakayama Research Institute (including Analysis Group) over 15% of the total, and develop a workplace where women can play an active role.
2. 2.Establish no overtime days at each workplace at least once a week.

Targets

1. 1.Increase the percentage of eligible employees taking childcare and family care leave and make these programs known to all employees and to foster an environment conducive to taking leave.
2. 2.Reduce overtime work and enhance the shortened working hours program to provide a comfortable workplace for employees raising children.
3. 3.Provide work experience opportunities through internships and other means to help foster the next generation of employees.

• Trend in the Number of Male/Female Employees (Persons)
• Average Years of Service of Male/Female Employees (Years)
• Average Monthly Overtime hours of Male/Female Employees (Hours)

Promoting Work-Life Balance

We are making it easier for employees to take childcare leave and family care leave to ensure that they remain with the company for many years. We also seek to boost employee engagement on an individual basis, which includes reducing overtime work through the introduction of no overtime days.

Human Rights

Our Code of Business Ethics requires that we comply with all laws, regulations, and rules, as well as practice faithful, fair business activity without ethical misconduct. As a company that operates globally, we support and respect international norms on human rights. We also educate our employees about human rights through employee training.

Occupational Health and Safety

Under our EHS policy, our manufacturing plants undergo periodic audits according to the rigorous European and North American standards. The findings obtained through these audits are used to build our global health and safety system. Additionally, we conduct risk assessment on all products to assess risks in terms of health and safety of operations.

Local Community Engagement

Contributions to the Local Community

We sponsor the Wakayama Civic Invention and Idea Contest, jointly host booths at the Wakayama Commerce and Industry Festival with other companies, and support other local events.

Contributions to Youth Development

We support the growth of children as the future generation by hosting company visits for local junior high and high school students and donating newspapers to nearby elementary schools.

Social Contributions through Our Products

Helping Resolve Global Issues through the Supply of Agrichemical Products

We have supplied agrochemical products which are essential for sustaining the food supply around the world since the 1980s. To date, we have helped to resolve global issues such as poverty by improving the productivity of agricultural crops around the world through supply of our agrochemical products.

Improvement of Quality of Life through the Supply of Pharmaceutical Products

In the 1990s, an overseas pharmaceutical company released a breakthrough HIV therapeutic drug. We were the first supplier of a key intermediate of the medicine ahead of any other competitors all over the world. To date, we have supported an increase in Quality of Life for people all over the world through the supply of our pharmaceutical products.

Business Continuity
Initiatives

System for Disaster Prevention and Disaster Mitigation

Emergency Response Team (ERT)

We have put a team in place dedicated to swiftly responding in case of emergency.
Every year, we conduct training on our response to contingencies based on serious risk scenarios such as leakage of hazardous substances.

In-house Fire Brigade

We conduct practice training in preparation for contingencies through large-scale joint exercises with the local fire department.
In addition, our in-house fire brigade takes part in the firefighting skills competition held in Fukui City every year.