Climate Change Data

A&T Corporation (6722)

Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2017, 2019-01 to 2019-06)

Reporting Period: 2017

Environmental Metrics

Climate Goals & Targets

Medium-term Goals:
  • Sales of 12 billion yen or greater, an ordinary income rate of over 10%, and an overseas direct sales ratio of 10% or more by December 2020.

Environmental Challenges

  • Decreased gross profit and gross profit rate due to increased sales of purchased products accompanying large-scale transactions.
  • Increase in SG&A expenses due to the augmentation of R&D cost (investment in the development of subsystems for Laboratory Information System).
  • Sales of electrolyte units were sluggish during the first half due to a product change by one of the OEM clients.
  • Strong price competition for large transactions both domestically and overseas.
  • Outsourcing expenses (outsourcing of system engineers) increased.
  • High dependence on a specific OEM client for sales.
  • Decline in sales to some OEM clients.
  • Strong demands for price revisions from existing routes.
  • Hospital management continues to be difficult, competition is intense.
Mitigation Strategies
  • Focus on finding new OEM clients and developing competitive products.
  • Developing new clients in Japan and China while strengthening relationships with existing OEM clients.
  • Continuous cost reductions, standardization in production, and sales in China.
  • Work-style reforms and human resource development.
  • Enrich employee education by consolidating and organizing the structure and programs for human resource education.
  • Introducing a new career path system and appropriately arranging human resources.
  • Introducing a region-specific full-time employee system to increase productivity.
  • Actively recruiting students from technical colleges.

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Reporting Period: 2019-01 to 2019-06

Environmental Metrics

Total Carbon Emissions:Not disclosed
Scope 1 Emissions:Not disclosed
Scope 2 Emissions:Not disclosed
Scope 3 Emissions:Not disclosed
Renewable Energy Share:Not disclosed
Total Energy Consumption:Not disclosed
Water Consumption:Not disclosed
Waste Generated:Not disclosed
Carbon Intensity:Not disclosed

ESG Focus Areas

  • Not disclosed

Environmental Achievements

  • Not disclosed

Social Achievements

  • Not disclosed

Governance Achievements

  • Adopted the system of audit and supervisory committee to separate supervision and execution of business administration, actualize highly transparent management, and streamline the decision-making process of the board of directors.

Climate Goals & Targets

Long-term Goals:
  • Not disclosed
Medium-term Goals:
  • Achieve sales of 12 billion yen or greater, an ordinary income rate of over 10%, and an overseas direct sales ratio of 10% or more by FY Dec. 2020.
  • Achieve a ratio of virtual overseas sales of over 50%.
Short-term Goals:
  • Not disclosed

Environmental Challenges

  • Sluggish sales to China due to changes in the Chinese financial environment and inventory adjustment of OEM client, Runda.
  • Sales concentrated on specific OEM clients.
  • Decline in sales to some OEM clients.
Mitigation Strategies
  • Increase domestic transactions in the IT and automation support business to cover for the shortfall in China.
  • Find new OEM clients.
  • Increase sales of original products to improve profitability.
  • Establish quality assurance division to improve product quality at Esashi Factory while reducing costs.
  • Continue strategy of selling V4 as a packaged product by utilizing the customer base and service system of Runda.
  • Improve basic service pattern and enrich product lineup while considering profitability.
  • Enhance marketing and educational support for service engineers, including training of Chinese staff at Esashi Factory.
  • Business alliance with ARKRAY to expand market share and explore new business opportunities.

Supply Chain Management

Supplier Audits: Not disclosed

Responsible Procurement
  • Not disclosed

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Physical Risks
  • Not disclosed
Transition Risks
  • Not disclosed
Opportunities
  • Not disclosed

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: Null

Certifications: Null

Third-party Assurance: Not disclosed

UN Sustainable Development Goals

  • Not disclosed

Not disclosed

Sustainable Products & Innovation

  • Not disclosed

Awards & Recognition

  • Not disclosed