Corporate Social Responsibility

Recognizing the increasing importance of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), the NSG Group aims to reinforce its CSR approach as a global company.

The NSG Group has diligently implemented strict corporate social responsibility policies since its foundation, and in August 2005, the Company established a Corporate Social Responsibility Committee to accelerate the promotion of its CSR activities.

NSG defines CSR as “an activity that establishes a relationship of trust with all stakeholders in order for the Group to operate as a socially reliable company.” With this in mind, NSG continues to be open and fair to all of its stakeholders, cultivating public trust, based on its core businesses.

Since the business integration with Pilkington plc, the NSG Group’s stance towards CSR has not changed significantly, since the principles followed by Pilkington were not dissimilar to those adopted by NSG. As a public company, NSG continues to carry out its responsibilities both through its business operations and through other activities, always recognizing the importance of its relationship with stakeholders, with society and with the global environment. In this way, NSG is enhancing its corporate value, and in that sense, the changes that have occurred in the NSG Group include increased responsibility and expanded scope of responsibility.

With production sites in 27 countries and sales bases in 130 countries worldwide, NSG has become a truly global company. With these achievements, NSG has successfully promoted personnel and technological exchanges and has deepened the relationship of trust.

As a member of the Sumitomo Group, a consortium of independent Japanese companies with well-established records and histories reaching back more than 400 years, NSG’s management philosophy is based on the “Sumitomo Spirit” of “placing prime importance on trust,” and “not pursuing easy gains,” and “contributing to society through business.” Assuming a basic policy of “People are the most important asset of our company,” while adopting Pilkington’s existing philosophy, “to achieve business success through professional, fair, ethical, legal and sustainable business practices,” NSG established a new management policy in the previous fiscal year that is more suited to the operations of a global company. They are summarized in the “Values and Principles” document, which is distributed to all employees.

The aim is to ensure that all of the Group employees around the world are aware of and understand the policy: “not to engage in any conduct that is against the law, conventional wisdom or social ethics in order to make profits” and “to contribute to society through the Company’s core monozukuri businesses to make profits.” In order to pursue the further enhancement of corporate values, with the business integration as a turning point, NSG will steadily realize the new synergies, while establishing a corporate governance structure in order to conduct efficient business operations on a global scale. For that purpose, NSG has formulated a Values and Principles management philosophy and action guidelines for all of the NSG Group’s business activities, as well as standardized CSR guidelines.

NSG’s proprietary monozukuri (passion for manufacturing excellence) is based on its devotion to quality and the satisfaction of customers, shareholders, and clients, as well as employees, and its contributions to environmental preservation and society. By recruiting employees to its organization around the world who have a common “philosophy,” NSG’s posture towards business will become stronger. The Group will always bear in mind the fact that the larger the organization grows, the greater its social responsibilities will become. Using the energies derived from the business integration as a springboard, the Company will continue its steadfast efforts to improve CSR activities.