Sustainability
Key Sustainability Issues
- Sustainability Material Issues and SDGs
- Process for Identifying Material Issues
- 2026 Medium-Term Management Plan Sustainability Targets
- 2023 Medium-Term Management Plan Sustainability Targets
Sustainability Material Issues and SDGs
To earn the trust of our stakeholders and continue our efforts towards a sustainable society, we have identified our material sustainability issues, considering the impact on the Glory Group and importance to our stakeholders.
We have also categorized our material issues by linking them to the SDGs. We will contribute to achieving a sustainable society by sincerely addressing various issues facing the world and promoting materiality initiatives.
Process for Identifying Material Issues
We identified material issues based on the following process and set KPIs and have promoted related initiatives. We also linked the identified material issues to the SDGs to which they contribute.
Material Issues and KPIs
In line with the 2026 Medium-Term Management Plan (April 2024 – March 2027), we have re-identified 13 material issues, for which we have set KPIs and initiatives to achieve fiscal 2026 targets.
Material Issues Map
2026 Medium-Term Management Plan Sustainability Targets
| Material Sustainability Issues | Priority Themes | KPIs | FY2024 Targets |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Environment | Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions | Reduce CO2 emissions in business activities | Scope 1 and 2 Reduce 21.2% (vs. FY2022) (FY2030 Targets: 42.4% vs. FY2022)  |
10.6% |
| Reduce environmental impact in value chain | Scope 3 Category 1 Agree with Tier1 suppliers to set CO2 targets Target setting rate: 80%  |
20% | ||
| Scope 3 Category 11 Reduce 12.4% (vs. FY2022) (FY2030 Target: 24.8% vs. FY2022) |
6.2% | |||
| Ensure appropriate information disclosure for climate change | Enhance the content of disclosure in accordance with the TCFD framework (To be diclosed every June) | Improve contents of Securities Report (To be dislosed in June 2024) |
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| Social | Recruit or/and develop human resources that contribute to business strategies | Promote DE&I | Rate of females in Management Positions: 5.0%
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3.0% |
| Rate of female new graduates: 25% or more
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23% | |||
| Rate of paternity leaves taken: 90%
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70% | |||
| Increase the employment rate of people with disabilities | Increase the employment rate stipulated in regulations
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2.5% | ||
| Develop DX specialists | (1) Offensive DX' leaders*1 (130 persons) (2) Potential 'Offensive DX' leaders (300 persons) (3) 'Defensive DX' leaders*2 (100 persons) (4) Basic DX/IT knowledge & skills to use digital tools (3,500 persons) *1 Offensive DX leaders: Talent who can create external DX solutions  |
(1) 20 persons (2) 100 persons (3) 20 persons (4) 1,000 persons |
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| Promote a pleasant work environment | Improve employee engagement | Rate of positive response for Employee Engagement Survery: 55%
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Check the rate through simple surveys | |
| Promote Health and Productivity Management | (1) Total annual working hours per employee: Below previous year (2) Rate of annual paid leaves used per employee: 70% or more  |
(1) Below previous year (2) 70% or more |
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| Reduce lost time injury frequency rate and severity rate | Below past five-year industrial* average
*Electrical machinery and equipment manufacturing |
Below average | ||
| Respect human rights | Enhance initiatives for human rights | (1) Formulate and promote human rights policy (2) Conduct Human Rights Due Diligence (HRDD)  |
(1) Formulate the Group's Human Rights Policy (2) Discuss the Group's HRDD process |
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| Conduct training on human rights (incl. harassment) | Participation rate: 100%
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100% | ||
| Select sustainable suppliers and promote sustainable procurement | Develop management process to strengthen supply chain management | Implement self-inspection checklist with new/primary business partners Response rate: 100%  |
100% | |
| Improve customer satisfaction with quality solutions & services | Improve customer satisfaction | Maintain/Improve product market share
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Disclose results | |
| Ensure product safety and quality | (1) Number of PL-related accidents: 0
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0 cases | ||
| (2) Number of serious violations of laws or regulations related product safety: 0
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0 cases | |||
| (3) Number of PL lawsuits related to product quality: 0
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0 cases | |||
| (4) Rate of product safety assessment conducted for newly developed products: 100%
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100% | |||
| Improve dialogue with Stakeholders | Maintain/Increase opportunities for dialogue with stakeholders | Institutional investors and analysts Implement engagement satisfaction survey and disclose results Local communities Disclose CSR activitivity reports Business partners Disclose report on initiatives to strengthen trust with business partners  |
Rate of execution of planned measures: 100% | |
| Governance | Protect customer privacy and tighten information security | Detect unauthorized accesses immediately to minimize damages to the Group | Improve information security level and promote the Group's security policy
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Disclose results |
| Provide security training for all employees | Participation rate: 100%
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100% | ||
| Promote compliance management | Eliminate serious compliance incidents | 0 cases
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0 cases | |
| Reinforce risk management and BCP | Review risk management system | Disclose results
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Disclose results | |
| Review Group-wide risk assessment methods | Disclose results
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Disclose results | ||
| Review BCP system | Disclose results
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Disclose results | ||
| Strengthen the Group governance | Establish systems to ensure effectiveness of internal control system | Disclose results | Disclose results | |
| Improve effectiveness of the board of directors | Disclose results | Disclose results | ||
| Creation of new value | Promote R&D and innovation | Increase the number of patent filed and registered in Japan Increase the number of patent filed and registered globally |
Disclose results | Disclose results |
| Develop products and solutions that meet society's needs | Inrease New Business Domain sales & disclose representative examples | New Business Domain Sales: 60 billion yen
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40 billion yen |
2023 Medium-Term Management Plan - Sustainability Targets & Results
