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Toray Group’s Sustainability Promotion Efforts
Message from the Corporate Vice President for Sustainability
Shinichiro HataCorporate Vice President,Corporate Sustainability Strategic Management Division,
Toray Industries, Inc.
As the Corporate Vice President in charge of the Corporate Sustainability Strategic Management Division, I will make every effort to advance our sustainable management, contributing to the sustainability of society, and enhancing both Toray Group’s corporate value and sustainable growth.
In April 2025, Toray Industries established the Corporate Sustainability Strategic Management Division, a new organization reporting directly to the president, with the aim of further enhancing sustainable management and driving it across the entire Group. This division centralizes sustainability-related functions that had previously been spread across multiple divisions, thereby strengthening our structure in order to more effectively promote group-wide initiatives.
As a strategic effort that focuses on both strengthened business competitiveness and enhanced corporate value, Toray Group is promoting a wide range of environmental and social initiatives across the organization. These include advancing Green Transformation (GX), reducing GHG emissions, promoting resource circulation, pursuing nature-positive initiatives, transforming existing businesses toward greater robustness and more sustainability, and incubating next-generation businesses.
We are also focused on more appropriate sharing of sustainability-related information and engagement with stakeholders, actively working to improve the transparency and reliability of our disclosures.
As part of our broader sustainability initiatives, we continue to promote CSR activities in line with Toray Group’s CSR Guidelines, which comprehensively address areas such as: ethics and compliance; safety, accident prevention, and environmental preservation; human rights promotion and human resources development; and establishing a sustainable supply chain. We are working toward achieving the specific goals and KPIs set out in our medium-term plan, CSR Roadmap 2025, based on the Group’s CSR material issues.
Sustainable strategic management is a way to build the foundation for long-term competitiveness and trust. As the one responsible for driving this effort, I will continue to bring together the knowledge and strengths of the entire Group and steadily implement initiatives one at a time with sincerity and determination.
Management Structure
Toray Industries classifies its sustainability initiatives into three priority areas: reducing society’s environmental impact, reducing the company’s own environmental impact, and promoting information disclosure. Based on this structure, the Company has established three projects: one for Sustainability Innovation (SI) Business expansion, one for climate change mitigation, and one for sustainability information disclosure. Each project is led by the Corporate Vice President in charge of the Corporate Sustainability Strategic Management Division. In addition, these projects work in collaboration with other corporate functions—including governance, plants/facilities/production, safety/health/environment, risk management, human rights and human capital, as well as research and technology development—to address sustainability-related issues across the entire Toray Group. Matters related to project activities are discussed by the Steering Committee, Toray’s standing deliberative body on sustainability, chaired by the president.
Furthermore, important policies and issues relating to sustainability are also deliberated as necessary by the Executive Committee, a body that supports the Board of Directors in its consideration of key group-wide management matters. The Board of Directors receives reports on progress in these areas at least once a year, appropriately monitors the status of initiatives, and provides oversight as well as comprehensive decision-making.
