Primary ESG Data

    FY2018 FY2019 FY2020 FY2021 FY2022
FTSE Russell Score (Published in June of every year)   2.2 2.3 2.4 2.7 3.0
E
Energy consumption (kl) 28,129 27,440 27,312 29,215 27,562
Energy intensity (kl/millions of yen in sales) 0.7491 0.7265 0.6629 0.6976 0.6362
Greenhouse gas emissions
Greenhouse gas emissions Scope 1 (t-CO2) 25,794 24,999 24,729 26,093 25,064
Greenhouse gas emissions Scope 2 (t-CO2) 24,737 23,827 23,301 23,154 20,658
SCOPE1 + SCOPE2 (t-CO2) 50,531 48,826 48,030 49,247 45,722
Greenhouse gas emission intensity (t-CO2/millions of yen in sales) 1.3458 1.2927 1.1658 1.1759 1.0554
Prevention of air pollution
SOx (sulfur oxide) emissions (t) 0 0 0 0 0
NOx (nitrogen oxide) emissions (t) 4.92 4.72 4.99 4.94 3.17
Dust emissions (t) 0.08 0.04 0.03 0.02 0.00
Prevention of water pollution
Water usage (kt) 10,505 10,334 10,552 10,781 10,680
Source: Municipal potable water (kt) 101 90 116 128 121
Source: Surface water from rivers (kt) 10,404 10,245 10,436 10,653 10,560
Water discharge volume (kt) 10,162 9,858 10,130 10,643 10,684
 Destination: Rivers (kt) 5,791 5,486 5,753 5,869 5,965
 Destination: Ocean (kt) 4,371 4,372 4,377 4,774 4,719
COD (chemical oxygen demand) emissions (t) 54.3 46.3 54.4 50.8 64.2
Industrial waste
Industrial waste volumes (t) 2,452 2,753 3,017 2,746 3,477
Industrial waste from plastic products (t) Started calculating from FY2022 126
Industrial waste recycle volume (t) 1,471 1,090 1,736 1,615 2,190
Industrial waste final disposal volume (t) 430 257 200 52 85
Hazardous waste generation (release amounts and transfer amounts of PRTR listed substances) (t) 144 136 133 131 113
Total costs of environmental fines   0 0 0 0 0
S
Employees (persons) 731 739 789 834 890
Percentage of female manager (%) 11.0 10.8 11.2 10.8 11.0
Percentage of female employees (%) 17.9 18.4 18.6 18.0 19.5
Percentage of non-Japanese employees (%) 18 21 23 26 30.6
Percentage of mid-career hires (Hodogaya only) (%) 33 32 33 34 35
Percentage of disability employment (Hodogaya only) (%) 1.5 1.9 2.3 2.5 2.6
Long‑term childcare leave women (persons) 1 3 1 6 1
Percentage of usage of long‑term childcare leave women (%) 100 100 100 100 100
Long‑term childcare leave men (persons) 0 4 1 9 10
Percentage of usage of long‑term childcare leave men (%) 0 24 14 56 83
Long‑term nursing care leave (consolidated) (persons) 0 0 0 0 0
Gender wage gap (Hodogaya only) (%) Started calculating from FY2022 84.8
Average monthly overtime per employee (hours) 11.9 12.0 10.3 11.6 11.3
Usage of paid holidays (%) 68 68 65 69 70.8
Usage of refreshment leave (%) 95 94 93 93 93.4
Average annual training hours per employee (Hodogaya only) (hours) Started calculating from FY2021 109.0 106.6
Separation rate (calculated using number of regular employees who leave the company during the year and excluding employees who joined the company during the year) (%) 1.5 3.2 1.5 3.3 1.6
Percentage of employees that are contractors or temporary staff   1.8 2.3 3.6 3.3 2.9
Number of work-related employee fatalities   0 0 0 0 0
Number of work-related contractor fatalities   0 0 0 0 0
Lost-time incident rate (Frequency rate) : Employee   0.00 0.00 0.92 0.00 0.00
Lost-time incident rate (Frequency rate) : Subcontracting companies   0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Lost-time incident rate (Severity rate) : Employee   0.000 0.000 0.001 0.000 0.000
Lost-time incident rate (Severity rate) : Subcontracting companies   0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
G
Percentage of directors who are outside directors (%) 42.9 42.9 42.9 42.9 42.9
Number of Board of Directors meetings (hours) 15 17 16 16 12
Number of Nominating and Compensation Committee meetings   7 10 12 14
Number of anticorruption violations   0 0 0 0 0
Total amount of political donations (yen) 0 0 0 0 0

Environmental Accounting* (Unit: Million JPY)

(Unit: Million JPY)

  FY2021 FY2022
Investment Expense Investment Expense
Business area cost 120 179 125 230
  (1) Pollution prevention cost 20 43 38 30
  (2) Global environmental conservation cost 100 16 87 11
  (3) Resource circulation cost 120 189
Upstream/downstream costs 5 9
Administration cost 2 4
R&D cost 92 46
Social activity cost 13 4 15
Environmental remediation cost
Total 120 291 129 304

* Based on the “Environmental Accounting Guidelines 2005” of the Ministry of the Environment