Priority Issues
In July 2021, we formulated the KPIs for our priority issues. At the Sustainability Committee held in July every year, we check the progress of our initiatives, review the measures being implemented, and take additional action as required. The new medium-term management plan G-STEP30 2nd that was announced in May 2023 organizes the priority issues from the perspectives of Prosperity, Planet, and People.
| Priority issues (materiality) |
Index (KPI) |
FY 2022 actual results |
FY 2025 targets |
FY 2030 targets |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prosperity | (1) Realizing safe and secure living | (2) Realizing convenient and comfortable living | (3) Realizing living in coexistence with the environment | Index (KPIs) : Net sales of materials that contribute to the SDGs with the “three types of living” (comparison to FY 2019) |
1.0× | 1.6× | 2.6× |
| (2) Realizing convenient and comfortable living | 1.0× | 1.6× | 2.6× | ||||
| (3) Realizing living in coexistence with the environment | |||||||
| Planet | (4) Promoting corporate activities in coexistence with the environment | CO2 emissions (comparison with FY 2013)(All domestic Group companies) |
26% reduction |
24% reduction |
46% reduction |
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| (All domestic Group companies) | |||||||
| Amount of industrial waste disposed of outside the plants (comparison to FY 2019)(All domestic Group companies) | 11% reduction Achieved FY 2030 target |
8% reduction |
10% reduction |
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| (All domestic Group companies) | Achieved FY 2030 target | ||||||
| People | (5) Human rights | Implementation rate of human rights-related education(Entire Group, including overseas companies) | 93% | 75%(**) | 100% (Entire Group, including overseas companies) | ||
| (Entire Group, including overseas companies) | (Domestic) | (Percentage of employees who received training at least once between 2026 and 2030)(**) | |||||
| (6) Employee engagement | Number of accidents causing lost work time (Entire Group, including overseas companies) | 5 (All domestic Group companies) (**) | 0 | 0 | |||
| (Entire Group, including overseas companies) | (All domestic Group companies) (**) | ||||||
| Certification as an Excellent Health and Productivity Management Organization(*) | Acquire certification Achieved FY 2030 target |
Acquire certification |
Acquire certification |
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| (*) | Achieved FY 2030 target | White 500 | |||||
| (7) Diversity | Ratio of women at the management level (Entire Group, including overseas companies) | 5.4% | 8.0% | 20% | |||
| (Entire Group, including overseas companies) | |||||||
| Ratio of female new recruits (career position) working at the head office (Unitika Ltd.) | 29% | 30% | 30% | ||||
| (career position) working at the head office (Unitika Ltd.) | |||||||
| Rate of men taking child-rearing leave (All domestic Group companies) | 53%(*)(career position) working at the head office (Unitika Ltd.) | 50% | 85%(**) | ||||
| (All domestic Group companies) | Achieved FY 2030 target | ||||||
| Implementation of annual review of the pools of core human resources(Unitika Ltd.) | － | 100% | 100% | ||||
| (Unitika Ltd.) | |||||||
| (8) Supply chain management | Response rate of CSR procurement survey(Main business partners and clients) | 87% Achieved FY 2030 target | 80% | 80% | |||
| (Main business partners and clients) | Achieved FY 2030 target |
* Unitika Ltd., Nippon Ester Co., Ltd.; Unitika Trading Co., Ltd.; Unitika Textiles Ltd.;
Unitika Glass Fiber Co., Ltd.; Unitika Garment Technology co., Ltd.
**Reviced in December 2023
Process for Formulation of Priority Issues
In specifying the priority issues, first we listed the initiatives the Unitika Group is already working on to achieve a sustainable society. Then we referred to the SDGs goal targets and the GRI Standards, and listed the initiatives to tackle going forward.
After grouping these initiatives, we identified as issues those initiatives we should achieve by the SDGs target year of 2030. We then verified the risks and opportunities of each of these issues and their positioning on the value chain, and narrowed down the important items. Finally, we organized these items on a matrix along two axes, one for their importance to stakeholders and the other for their importance to the Unitika Group, and then specified the priority issues (materiality).
We also set four items as basic matters underlying the priority issues. These items have been approved at a management meeting.
Priority issue specification process
Priority issue matrix
- Compliance
- Strengthen governance
- Ensure product safety and quality
- Promote digital transformation