With regard to climate change mitigation, we provide solutions centered on the transition to lightweight, highly durable mobility realized through high-performance and high-value-added materials. For climate change adaptation, we are offering solutions that help reduce damage and facilitate a prompt recovery in the event of a natural disaster, through infrastructure reinforcement materials that make use of high-performance materials and technologies and services in the IT and healthcare domains. Moreover, in an effort to reduce the impact our business activities have on the global environment, we are phasing out coal-fired thermal power while promoting energy conservation and renewable energy and pursuing process innovation and other types of technological innovation.

By providing highly durable and high-quality products that extend the lifespans of products, such as reinforcing material for high-performance tires and conveyor belts, and recycling technologies, such as polyester and aramid fibers, we are improving resource circulation throughout the value chain. Furthermore, as part of our efforts toward resource circulation in our business activities, we strive to reduce waste through reuse and recycling initiatives, expand products that require less water, and use water more efficiently in these activities.

We deliver solutions using information technology and high-performance materials providing both security and functionality, such as aramid fiber, which can withstand the high temperatures of fires; ultra-lightweight ceiling materials that reduce the risk of ceilings collapsing at times of earthquake disaster, and safety confirmation services. Furthermore, by means of our filters utilizing nano-level microtechnology and environmental engineering, we help prevent environmental pollution and contribute to environmental purification. We also thoroughly monitor and manage hazardous chemicals in our business activities that could damage ecosystems or pollute the environment and make systematic efforts to reduce such chemicals.

Through the comprehensive utilization of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, medical products, and IT services, we provide solutions that support a healthy and comfortable living for people. In particular, we aim to resolve issues for patients, families, and communities in need of greater support, centered on the areas of rare and intractable diseases. Also, to provide workers with safe and healthy work environments, we are taking measures to eliminate occupational accidents, remedy long working hours, and improve employee's mental health.

We are working to strengthen our management base, which serves as the foundation for realizing our long-term vision of becoming "a company that supports the society of the future." To that end, we endeavor to build an environment in which diverse human resources, the driving force toward the realization of our long-term vision, can be active and to train such human resources; to strengthen corporate governance, which is essential for sound and sustained growth; to promote corporate ethics and compliance activities as the basis of trust; to respond properly to various risks; to ensure information security, which is becoming increasingly important in the IT society; to engage in responsible procurement and manufacturing to gain customer trust; and to give due consideration to the environment, security and disaster prevention, and health.