Climate Change Data

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

• Environmental Management
• Human Resource Management
• Social Contribution
• Internal Control

Environmental Achievements

• Completion of renovation work at the Higashi-Yokoyama Power Plant, making all power plants compliant with renewable energy feed-in tariffs.
• Construction of Japan’s largest floating solar power generation plant, with an expected annual output of approximately 2,400 MWh.
• Forest building initiative: “IBIDEN’s Forest,” with a total area of 41.31 ha.

Social Achievements

• Awarded the 15th SCQI by Intel Corporation for achieving remarkable results in terms of Intel targets and for fulfilling a role as an important leader within the industry in terms of quality, cost, supply frameworks, technological prowess, customer service, labor, ethics systems, and environmental sustainability.
• Received Daimler AG’s Supplier Award for the development of state-of-the-art diesel particulate filters (DPF) and production engineering for high-end trucks.
• Occupational accident frequency rate of domestic Group companies below the national manufacturing industry average.

Governance Achievements

• Established a Management Council to fortify its structure, composed of parties responsible for management decisions and business execution.
• Advised heads of Group companies to use a structure similar to its own to advance compliance and risk management.
• Implemented an executive officer system to enable swift managerial decision-making and accelerated business execution.

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

• Continued shrinking of the PC market and a further slowdown in the high-end smartphone market in the Electronics Operation.
• Launch of fan-out wafer-level packaging (FO-WLP) significantly impacting the CSP business.
• Changes in product mix, impacts of a fall in sales prices, and the costs of launching IBIDEN Mexico Co., Ltd. in the Ceramics Operation.

Mitigation Strategies

• Efforts to capture business in cutting-edge fields for high-end products; expand target segments to include mid-range items; broaden interfaces with fast-growing customers; increase uses of technologies targeting new fast-growing IoT and in-car product segments.
• Completion of IBIDEN Mexico plant, establishing a global production framework, allowing the Company to enter a stage where it will recover its investment.
• Expanding business operations with characteristic new products in collaboration with the technology development side.

Supply Chain Management

Supplier Audits: Not disclosed

Responsible Procurement

• IBIDEN Group Supplier CSR guidelines request that labor-related human rights be observed, including bans of child labor and forced labor.

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Physical Risks

• Not disclosed

Transition Risks

• Not disclosed

Opportunities

• Not disclosed

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines

Certifications: ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001

Third-party Assurance: Not disclosed

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• Not disclosed

Not disclosed

Sustainable Products & Innovation

• Antiviral melamine decorative laminates
• Antiviral melamine noncombustible decorative laminates
• Environmentally friendly products in the area of automobiles (DPF, SCR, AFP)

Awards & Recognition

• Prime status by oekom research AG