Toray believes that to achieve a sustainable society, it is important to undertake initiatives throughout the supply chain while building collaborative partnerships. As a concrete step toward strengthening of the CSR supply chain for our products, we conducted a survey to assess the status of CSR initiatives on the part of the approximately 2,800 suppliers from whom we regularly purchase raw materials and fuel, components, and packaging materials. We designated suppliers whose responses met our own standards as CSR Procurement Partners, and today we are working to increase the proportion of our overall purchasing from these suppliers.

Our Green Procurement Guidelines include our own lists of banned and controlled chemical substances and require assessments of the environmental control status for items we procure.

The results of a survey including controlled chemical substances conducted in December 2004 based on the Green Procurement Guidelines were applied to the RPS purchasing system in April 2005, and we provide customers with Specific Chemical Substance Content Information Sheets.