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Building the Future Through Sustainable Management. Representative Director,President and Chief Operating Officer Eiji Fukuda

  • Today’s corporate environment faces global challenges such as climate change, resource depletion, and social division, requiring an even greater contribution to achieving a sustainable society. Okura Industrial Group views its initiatives to address these challenges as an investment in the future, firmly believing that they are an integral part of a management strategy that enhances corporate value.
    Based on this philosophy, we believe that promoting climate change countermeasures and resource recycling initiatives, deepening coexistence with local communities, and creating an environment where each and every employee can work vibrantly are essential foundations for building a sustainable society and for our group to create the future.
     Since its foundation, our group has contributed to societal development through manufacturing. Leveraging this history and experience, we will continue to steadily advance future-oriented initiatives. We are committed to co-creating a sustainable future with all stakeholders: shareholders and investors, customers, business partners, local communities, and employees.

Message from the Chairperson of Sustainability Committee

近藤 美穂

Operating Officer;
Manager, Sustainability
Promotion Department, and
Legal and Intellectual Property
Department, and Environmental
Management Department,
Corporate Center

Miho Kondo

Aiming to increase corporate value, keeping in mind our coexistence with society

In promoting sustainability-oriented management, we believe it is vital to create new value together with all our stakeholders. To this end, we recently formulated our Multi-stakeholder Policy. Under this Policy, we aim to co-exist in harmony with all our stakeholders and appropriately allocate the earnings gained through our business activities.

Achieving our CO2 emissions reduction target one year ahead of schedule

We have set a target to reduce CO2 emissions by 12% of 2021 levels (equivalent to a 30% reduction from 2013 levels) by 2024, as part of our efforts for “promoting management for decarbonization (climate action measures)” one of the six material issues (materiality) of Okura Industrial Group. We achieved this target in 2023, one year ahead of schedule. We will continue to work towards carbon neutrality by installing equipment that is highly effective in reducing CO2 emissions and pursuing initiatives throughout the supply chain. With regard to “further promoting resource recycling measures”, we are currently working with customers to consider schemes for the commercialization of chemical recycling, in addition to the mechanical recycling of film products. In relation to “creating and expanding Environmental Contribution Products”, we expect to achieve our target of expanding the percentage of net sales of Environmental Contribution Products to at least 50% of sales in the living support category by 2024.

Progress on other materiality

As part of “promoting CSR procurement”, we are engaged in establishing and operating a mechanism of raw material procurement conscious of human rights, the environment, etc. As part of “gaining a competitive advantage by promoting digital transformation (DX)”, we are improving productivity and reforming operations by introducing new digital technologies. As part of “conducting research and development geared to creating innovation”, we will formulate an intellectual property strategy for the Research & Development Center during 2024, based on what kind of value we want to provide to society in the next decade and what kind of resources are needed to provide that value.

Employees are key stakeholders

For Okura Industrial Group, our employees are our most familiar and important stakeholders. In view of factors such as rising prices, we implemented a base salary rise in 2023, and again in 2024. We revised the education system in 2022, and have launched new training programs. Moreover, starting in 2024, we have introduced a new personnel evaluation system to help employees deepen their understanding of factors such as the roles expected of them by the Company through interviews with their supervisors. Based on the philosophy of connecting that the growth of each employee will lead to the growth of the company, we are striving to develop work-friendly workplaces where employees are motivated to work. We expect that initiatives such as these will provide employees with opportunities to consider their own career design.