External Assessments
An index established by FTSE Russell, a worldwide provider of market indexes, and is composed of companies selected from major companies around the world for demonstrating outstanding ESG practices.
Our Company was selected for inclusion in July 2024.
This index was established by FTSE Russell, and is composed of Japanese companies selected for demonstrating outstanding ESG practices. Selected from among the shares on the FTSE Japan Index, it is designed to contain a distribution of industries equal to that of the Japanese stock market.
Our Company was selected for inclusion in July 2024.
This index selects companies with a focus on FTSE Russell’s ESG ratings, and includes only companies that are valued for their climate governance and climate change initiatives, particularly among those with high greenhouse gas emissions.
Our Company has been selected for inclusion in July 2024.
A joint-brand index for the Tokyo Stock Exchange of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and the Japan Exchange Group (JPX). Selected from among TOPIX shares, it is weighted toward companies with outstanding carbon efficiency and environmental information disclosure.
Our Company has been selected for inclusion in June 2024.
Established to carry out activities seeking information disclosure from corporations on their greenhouse gas emissions and efforts to counter climate change, CDP has been measuring and managing the environmental impact of industry since its start in 2000. More than 23,000 companies have disclosed climate change information (2023 data), and CDP scores companies’ environmental performance on a scale topped by the “A” rating. Our Company received a score of A- in 2023.
For 2024, we submitted our response at the end of September.
CDP Water Security is a program seeking disclosure of information on risks affecting water security. Our Company compiles statistics on items including the volume of water we consume and wastewater emitted, which is useful in understanding data on water stress.
Our Company received a score of B in 2023. For 2024, we submitted our response at the end of September.
Silver Rating
EcoVadis SAS was established in 2007 as an institution that evaluates the ESG efforts of companies in order to improve the environmental and social practices of companies across their whole supply chains. Thus far, it has assessed approximately 130,000 companies in 220 industries and 180 countries and regions in terms of their policies, measures taken and performance in the four categories of environment, labor & human rights, ethics, and sustainable resource procurement. EcoVadis confers its Silver rating only on companies performing within the top 15% among all industries it evaluates.
MSCI Nihonkabu ESG Select Leaders Index
MSCI Nihonkabu ESG Select Leaders Index is composed of companies included in the parent index (MSCI Japan IMI Index) with an outstanding ESG rating, with a target coverage of 50% of each GICS® industry classification of the parent index.
Our Company was selected for inclusion in June 2024.
THE INCLUSION OF [Sumitomo Bakelite Co., Ltd.] IN ANY MSCI INDEX, AND THE USE OF MSCI LOGOS, TRADEMARKS, SERVICE MARKS OR INDEX NAMES HEREIN, DO NOT CONSTITUTE A SPONSORSHIP, ENDORSEMENT OR PROMOTION OF [Sumitomo Bakelite Co., Ltd.] BY MSCI OR ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES. THE MSCI INDEXES ARE THE EXCLUSIVE PROPERTY OF MSCI. MSCI AND THE MSCI INDEX NAMES AND LOGOS ARE TRADEMARKS OR SERVICE MARKS OF MSCI OR ITS AFFILIATES.
Inclusion in the Indexes
In 2024, our Company was selected for inclusion for the fifth consecutive year in the SOMPO Sustainability Index, established independently by Sompo Asset Management Co., Ltd. The roughly 300 shares comprising the index are selected each year for outstanding environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance. It is used for the SOMPO Sustainable Operation program.
The JPX-Nikkei Index 400 is composed of companies with high appeal for investors, which meet requirements of global investment standards, such as efficient use of capital and investor-focused management perspectives, and promotes the appeal of Japanese corporations domestically and abroad, while encouraging continued improvement of corporate value, thereby aiming to revitalize the Japanese stock market.
Our Company was selected for the first time in fiscal 2024 for inclusion in the “JPX-Nikkei Index 400.”
