Improving inventory management, logistics and stable supply in the chemicals business, and conducting R&D on environmentally responsive products
First written in FY2016. 21 of 34 entries say "Restated". Latest entry: 2026-11-13.
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- FY2026RaisedAnnual report
「The Company will expand into various new applications with newly developed products, including emulsions for inks and coatings, next-generation ultraviolet-curing adhesives, ultra-high-weather-resistance coatings for residential applications that can reduce the frequency of repainting, and low-irritation, high-performance adhesives for skin sutures in the healthcare sector.」
The Company specified newly developed products for the Chemicals Business's research and development and environmentally friendly products, including emulsions, ultraviolet-curing adhesives, ultra-high-weather-resistance coatings, and adhesives for skin sutures. - FY2026-H1AdvancedAnnual report
「Amid this business environment, the Business worked to ensure a stable supply of products to customers by strengthening the production system at the Koka Plant, which was newly established the previous year, and also worked through new technology development to produce environmentally friendly and high-value-added products, such as environmentally considerate water-based adhesives and highly weather-resistant coatings.」
The Company proceeded to strengthen the production system at the Koka Plant, which was newly established the previous year, and continued ensuring a stable supply and developing environmentally considerate and high-value-added products. - FY2025AdvancedAnnual report
「Amid this business environment, the Business newly constructed the Koka Plant to further strengthen its production capacity, worked to ensure a stable supply of products to customers, and, through new technology development, worked to produce environmentally friendly and high-value-added products, such as environmentally considerate water-based adhesives and highly weather-resistant coatings.」
With construction of the Koka Plant completed, the Company proceeded to strengthen its production system and ensure a stable supply. - FY2025-H1AdvancedAnnual report
「Amid this business environment, the Business constructed the Koka Plant and closed the Nagoya Plant (Chemicals) to further strengthen its production and supply systems. It continued working to ensure a stable supply of products to customers and, through new technology development, to produce environmentally friendly and high-value-added products, such as environmentally considerate water-based adhesives and highly weather-resistant coatings.」
The Company constructed the Koka Plant and closed the Nagoya Plant (Chemicals) as measures to strengthen its production and supply systems. It also continued its policy of developing environmentally considerate water-based adhesives and highly weather-resistant coatings. - FY2024RaisedAnnual report
「The Chemicals Business will actively adopt biomass raw materials and focus on developing more environmentally considerate products. As high-value-added products, it will develop new applications including environmentally considerate flame-retardant adhesives for automobiles, reactive adhesives and low-temperature-curing adhesives that require no external energy for the electrical and electronics sector, highly weather-resistant coatings for residential applications that can reduce the frequency of repainting, and low-irritation, high-performance adhesives for skin sutures in the healthcare sector.」
Biomass raw materials were identified as a means of developing environmentally considerate products, and new applications and high-value-added products for the automotive, electrical and electronics, residential, and healthcare sectors were specified. - FY2024-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「Amid this business environment, the Business worked to ensure a stable supply of products to customers, while focusing on developing new technologies and working to produce environmentally friendly products, such as environmentally considerate water-based adhesives and highly weather-resistant coatings, as well as high-value-added products.」
The Company continued ensuring a stable product supply, developing new technologies, and producing environmentally friendly and high-value-added products, such as environmentally considerate water-based adhesives and highly weather-resistant coatings. - FY2024-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「Amid this business environment, the Business worked to ensure a stable supply of products to customers, while focusing on developing new technologies and working to produce environmentally friendly products, such as environmentally considerate water-based adhesives and highly weather-resistant coatings, as well as high-value-added products.」
The Company continued ensuring a stable product supply, developing new technologies, and producing environmentally friendly and high-value-added products, such as environmentally considerate water-based adhesives and highly weather-resistant coatings. - FY2024-Q1Supply conditions stabilized, but high prices and energy costs persistedAnnual report
「Although the supply of raw materials had begun to stabilize, the Chemicals Business continued to operate in severe conditions, with raw material prices remaining elevated and energy costs continuing to rise. Amid this business environment, the Business worked to ensure a stable supply of products to customers, while focusing on developing new technologies and working to produce environmentally friendly and high-value-added products.」
The Company continued ensuring a stable product supply, developing new technologies, and producing environmentally friendly and high-value-added products. Although raw material supply conditions stabilized, prices remained elevated and energy costs continued to rise. - FY2023-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「Amid this business environment, the Business worked to ensure a stable supply of products to customers, while focusing on developing new technologies and working to produce environmentally friendly and high-value-added products.」
The Company continued ensuring a stable product supply, developing new technologies, and producing environmentally friendly and high-value-added products. - FY2023-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「Amid this business environment, the Business worked to ensure a stable supply of products to customers, while focusing on developing new technologies and working to produce environmentally friendly and high-value-added products.」
Amid continuing high raw material prices, supply restrictions, and supply shortages, the Company continued ensuring a stable product supply and producing new, environmentally friendly, and high-value-added products. - FY2023-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「Amid this business environment, the Business worked to ensure a stable supply of products to customers, while focusing on developing new technologies and working to produce environmentally friendly and high-value-added products.」
The Company continued ensuring a stable product supply, developing new technologies, and producing environmentally friendly and high-value-added products. - FY2022RaisedAnnual report
「The Chemicals Business will improve operational efficiency through digital transformation, optimize raw material and product inventories, manage containers, and streamline manufacturing and logistics, while establishing raw material procurement and production systems based on BCP. With the goal of achieving carbon neutrality in the future, it will actively adopt environmentally considerate raw materials and renewable energy, focus on research and sales development, and work to provide environmentally friendly products that meet market needs.」
In addition to the existing initiatives to streamline inventory and logistics, address BCP, and develop environmentally friendly products, the Company explicitly stated that it would pursue digital transformation and introduce environmentally considerate raw materials and renewable energy. - FY2022-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「Amid this business environment, the Company focused on developing new technologies and worked to produce environmentally friendly and high-value-added products.」
Even amid continuing high raw material prices and supply shortages, the Company continued its policy of developing new technologies, environmentally friendly products, and high-value-added products. - FY2022-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「Amid this business environment, the Company focused on developing new technologies and worked to produce environmentally friendly and high-value-added products.」
Even in the challenging environment of continuing naphtha price increases and supply shortages, the Company continued its policy of developing new technologies, environmentally friendly products, and high-value-added products. - FY2022-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「Amid this business environment, the Company focused on developing new technologies and worked to develop environmentally friendly and high-value-added products.」
Even amid continuing high raw material prices and supply shortages, the Company continued its policy of developing new technologies, environmentally friendly products, and high-value-added products. - FY2021RaisedAnnual report
「The Chemicals Business will improve operational efficiency through the use of IT, optimize raw material and product inventories, manage containers, and streamline manufacturing and logistics. It will also establish procurement and production systems designed for business continuity planning (BCP), strengthen earnings capacity, secure a stable supply, and focus on research and sales development in terms of quality while working to provide environmentally friendly products.」
In addition to the existing initiatives to streamline inventory and logistics, secure a stable supply, and develop environmentally friendly products, the Company explicitly stated that it would establish procurement and production systems designed for BCP. - FY2021-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「Amid this business environment, the Company focused on developing new technologies and worked to develop environmentally friendly and high-value-added products.」
Even in the challenging environment of substantially lower customer demand, the Company continued developing new technologies, environmentally friendly products, and high-value-added products. - FY2021-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「Amid this business environment, the Company focused on developing new technologies and worked to develop environmentally friendly and high-value-added products.」
Even in the challenging environment of substantially lower customer demand, the Company continued developing new technologies, environmentally friendly products, and high-value-added products. - FY2021-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「The Chemicals Business faced continuing severe conditions as demand from customers declined substantially. Amid this business environment, the Company focused on developing new technologies and worked to develop environmentally friendly and high-value-added products.」
Even in the challenging environment of substantially lower customer demand, the Company continued its policy of developing new technologies, environmentally friendly products, and high-value-added products. - FY2020-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「Amid this business environment, the Company focused on developing new technologies and worked to develop environmentally friendly and high-value-added products.」
In a challenging environment in which some raw material prices continued to remain elevated, the Company continued developing new technologies, environmentally friendly products, and high-value-added products. - FY2020-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「Amid this business environment, the Company focused on developing new technologies and worked to develop environmentally friendly and high-value-added products.」
While some raw material prices remained elevated even as prices had begun to stabilize, the Company continued developing new technologies, environmentally friendly products, and high-value-added products. - FY2020-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「Although raw material prices had begun to stabilize, some raw materials remained at elevated levels, and severe conditions continued. Against this backdrop, the Chemicals Business focused on developing new technologies and worked to develop environmentally friendly and high-value-added products.」
While recognizing that some raw material prices remained elevated, the Company continued developing new technologies, environmentally friendly products, and high-value-added products. - FY2019RestatedAnnual report
「The Chemicals Business will optimize raw material and product inventories through the use of IT, manage containers, and streamline logistics to strengthen earnings capacity and secure a stable supply, while focusing on research and sales development in terms of quality and working to provide environmentally friendly products.」
The Company continued its policies on inventory optimization, container management, logistics streamlining, research and sales development, and providing environmentally friendly products. - FY2019-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「Amid this business environment, the Company focused on developing new technologies and worked to develop environmentally friendly and high-value-added products.」
While recognizing higher raw material prices and transportation costs, the Company continued developing new technologies, environmentally friendly products, and high-value-added products. - FY2019-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「Amid this business environment, the Company focused on developing new technologies and worked to develop environmentally friendly and high-value-added products.」
While recognizing rising naphtha prices and transportation costs, the Company continued developing new technologies, environmentally friendly products, and high-value-added products. - FY2019-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「Amid continuing severe conditions surrounding the Chemicals Business, including higher raw material prices resulting from rising naphtha prices, the Company focused on developing new technologies and worked to develop environmentally friendly and high-value-added products.」
While recognizing higher raw material prices, the Company continued developing new technologies, environmentally friendly products, and high-value-added products. - FY2018RestatedAnnual report
「The Chemicals Business will optimize raw material and product inventories using IT, manage containers, and streamline logistics to secure a stable supply, while focusing on research and development and sales development and working to provide environmentally friendly products.」
The Company continued its policies on inventory optimization, container management, logistics streamlining, research and sales development, and environmentally friendly products. - FY2018-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「Amid this business environment, the Business focused on developing new technologies and worked to develop environmentally friendly and high-value-added products.」
While recognizing the uncertainty caused by slower growth in the Chinese market and fluctuations in raw material prices, the Company continued its policy of developing new technologies, environmentally friendly products, and high-value-added products. - FY2018-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「Amid the challenging business environment surrounding the Chemicals Business, including the sluggish Chinese market and fluctuations in raw material prices, the Company focused on developing new technologies and worked to develop environmentally friendly and high-value-added products.」
While recognizing the sluggish Chinese market and fluctuations in raw material prices, the Company continued its policy of developing new technologies, environmentally friendly products, and high-value-added products. - FY2016First statedAnnual report
「The Chemicals Business will optimize inventories, streamline logistics, secure a stable supply, and promote the research and development of environmentally friendly products.」
The four areas identified as initiatives were inventory, logistics, supply, and environmentally friendly products.