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Basic Policy & Enhance Corporate Governance and Management Transparency

CSR Promotion Framework

Toray Group considers the promotion of CSR and growth in profitability as twin pillars of equal and central importance in management.

Promotion of CSR on the Company-wide, Subsidiary/Affiliate, Division, and Facility Level

The CSR Committee, which reports directly to the president and is chaired by the vice president, coordinates the activities of six company-wide committees. CSR/Legal Compliance Committees have been established in each subsidiary and affiliate, division, and plant, where they promote CSR activities and serve as task force units of the CSR Committee.

One unique aspect of Toray Group's approach is CSR line activities, a program that emphasizes on-site action with 100% employee participation. Specifically, each worksite defines CSR issues based on the viewpoint of multi-stakeholders, CSR Guidelines, and Action Programs and then addresses them through the PDCA Cycle.

We established the CSR Operations Group in the Corporate Strategic Planning Division in September 2006 to strengthen CSR line activities and extend them throughout the Toray Group. The CSR Operations Group was spun off to become the CSR Operations Department in June 2007.

CSR Committee and Promotional Organization

PDCA Cycle in CSR Management

CSR Activities at Subsidiaries and Affiliates

The entire Toray Group seeks to pursue CSR activities as defined by the CSR Guidelines and Action Programs in combination with the basic approach to management laid out in the Corporate Philosophy, Corporate Missions, and Corporate Guiding Principles.

In April 2006, we launched CSR line activities by training key individuals at six model companies in Japan (Towa Orimono, Toray Monofilament, Ichimura Sangyo, Toray International, Toray Construction, and Soda Aromatic). We subsequently began training key individuals at remaining Japanese subsidiaries and affiliates in September 2006 and launched CSR line activities in March 2007.

We also began extending CSR activities to our overseas subsidiaries and affiliates, starting with three countries in Southeast Asia (specifically, in Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia).

View from the Field

Following Toray Group's selection of "CSR Innovation" as one of its business strategies and the decision to actively expand CSR activities to regions outside Japan, Penfibre was appointed as Model Company in Malaysia to promote CSR line activities. After Penfibre's president announced the launch of CSR activities in his capacity as the CSR Committee chairman in March 2007, we created a company-wide organization including both fibers and films business to promote the CSR program.

We aim to become an ideal CSR model company by encouraging understanding and participation on the part of all employees.

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