SHINDEN HIGHTEX CORPORATION

Sustainability Management

Basic Policy on Sustainability

The SHINDEN HIGHTEX Group defines its code of conduct as its motto and Code of Behavior. The Group's basic policy is to pursue sustainable growth and the development of the Group through efforts to focus on increasing sales of products that contribute to the protection of the environment and to address issues related to the environment, society and corporate governance (ESG) while managing risks that it classifies as strategic or operational risks. SHINDEN HIGHEX believes this enables it to contribute to the improvement of the global environment and society (the resolution of sustainability issues).
The Group's sustainability initiatives are disclosed in our corporate governance report A .PDF file will open in a new window (The .PDF file is typically updated in late June and mid-November every year.).

Approach to Sustainability

Goals

Contribute to the improvement of the global environment and society
The sustainable growth and development of the SHINDEN HIGHTEX Group

Initiatives
Increasing sales of products that contribute to the protection of the environment

Medium-term sales strategy (from FY2023)

Market and customer strategies
Priority markets: markets related to the digital and green transformations (DX and GX)
Finding good new customers in the markets related to industrial equipment, society and the environment
Product Strategy
Position batteries and electric power equipment as the priority market in Sustainability Transformation
Discover and increase sales of products related to energy management and EVs
Risk Management

Classify business risks into the following two categories and manage these risks.

Strategic Risks
Risks that we choose to take to achieve sound business results through the formulation and implementation of business strategies
Operational Risk
Risks that should be controlled to below a certain level in business operations stated in terms of the potential amount of damage and likelihood of occurrence
ESG initiatives
Environmental
Initiatives to achieve and maintain ISO 14001 certification
Chemical substance management (management of prohibited chemicals and substances of environmental concern)
Social
Respect for human rights (responsible mineral sourcing within the Company's supply chain)
Appropriate treatment of employees and improvement and development of good work environments
Governance
Corporate Governance Code initiatives
Crisis management initiatives, including compliance and disaster control measures
Code of Conduct
Motto
  • Do what you are supposed to do before you are told to do it
  • Take the risk and action
  • Act decisively
  • Continue to evolve
  • Do what others will not
  • Have the mindset of an entrepreneur
  • Try new things without being held back by the past
  • Inspire employees to dream
Code of Behavior
  1. 1.Code for customers
  2. 2.Code for shareholders
  3. 3.Code for employees
  4. 4.Code for sales activities
  5. 5.Code for product activities
  6. 6.Code for proper accounting
  7. 7.Respect for internal information and company property
  8. 8.Prohibition of improper contracts and expenditures
  9. 9.Code for PR and advertising activities
  10. 10.Code for environmental protection
  11. 11.Elimination of antisocial forces