Chugoku Marine Paints : Social and Environmental Report 2021

C o n t e n t s

Greetings		1
CMP's approach to society and environment	2
Company overview
	Company profile		3
	Product development
	Description of main business	7
	Product development	9
	Environmental products	11
	Together with stakeholders
	Together with stakeholders	15
	Together with customers	17
	Together with suppliers	20
	Together with local communities	21
	Together with shareholders and investors	23
	Together with employees	29
	Coatings Care activities
	Environmental management	31
	Material balance		33
	Climate change		34
	Resource utilization and	Waste	37
	pollution prevention
	Water resources	39
		Air pollution control	40
	Management of chemical substances contained in products	41
	Conservation of biodiversity	43
	Disaster and accident prevention	44
	Environmental accounting & Eco-efficiency	45
	Environmental Performance	46

Scope of	This report focuses on our domestic business activities (a
activities	part of the descriptions in this report includes data of our
reported	overseas affiliates).
	The following abbreviated names are used in the summary
	of collected environmental data.
	■ Kyushu Factory					Kyushu Factory
	■ Shiga Factory					Shiga Factory
	■ Technical Center(Otake)				Technical Headquarters, Otake
	■ Technical Center(Shiga)				Technical Headquarters, Shiga
	■ Ohtake-Meishin Chemical		Ohtake-Meishin Chemical Co., Ltd.
	■ Kobe Paints					Kobe Paints, Ltd.
Period	April 1, 2020 to March 31, 2021 (a part of the descriptions
covered	may include the period in and after April 2021)
Date	December, 2021
of Issue

Greetings

We are pleased to provide you with our Social and Environmental Report 2021. We hope it will help you understand our efforts and commitments to society and the environment.

CMP will continuously do our best to achieve a sustainable society. Your continued support and advice would be greatly appreciated.

Kenshi Date

President

CMP's approach to society and environment

Chugoku Marine Paints, Ltd. (CMP) actively works on creation of values and solution of social issues indicated by the SDGs (*) through its business activities.

CMP fulfills its responsibility as a paint manufacturer.

Taking a socially significant role and responsibility to contribute to industrial development through improving paint performance, CMP, a company supplying paints to users in the key industries such as marine, shipbuilding, utility, steel, construction and woodwork, strives to ensure stable supply of products developing its genuine technologies and production system.

CMP promotes the development of eco-friendly products.

CMP has been developing products that lead to reduced greenhouse gas emissions, such as fuel-saving antifoulings and heat-reflecting coatings, as well as paints for offshore wind farms. To contribute to the realization of low-carbon society by means of paint technologies, CMP will continue to focus on the development and performance improvement of eco-friendly products.

CMP strives to reduce the environmental burden and improves product safety.

In order to reduce the environmental impact generated in the manufacturing process, transport and use of its products and to enhance product safety, CMP promotes various initiatives including establishing a management system for environmental protection and safety as well as producing solvent-free paints to reduce irritating materials and volatile organic compounds (VOCs).

CMP contributes to sustainable development of the society.

CMP will place compliance as its management cornerstone, emphasizing the establishment of sound and highly-transparent corporate governance and internal control, and strive to improve the relationship with local communities through combined efforts of all group companies. CMP will continue to make efforts toward establishing social trust and contributing to sustainable social develop- ment.

* SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals)

SDGs are global development goals adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in September 2015 for the year 2030. SDGs consist of 17 goals and 169 targets for realizing sustainable society, under the basic principle of "Leaving no one behind".

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Company overview

Company profile

CMP, a leading company aiming to harmonize human activity with nature.

Since its foundation, Chugoku Marine Paints, Ltd. has been taking a unique approach in the industry to develop core products for marine paints and also paints for industrial applications. Our consistent and sincere attitude in areas of both software and hardware towards developing better products has been highly appreciated and praised by customers not only locally but also internationally. With the help of strong customer confidence in our products and services and our never-ending quest to meet customers' expectations, we keep developing. As we are a supplier to key industries such as shipping, ship building, electric power, steel, construction and woodworking industries, our role and contribution can be vital to the growth of the industrial world in many aspects. Also, our efforts should be based in the ideal of maintaining harmony between man and nature. Chugoku Marine Paints, Ltd. is an industrial leader that seeks to promote industrial growth while protecting the global environment, and continues its efforts into the future with a creative and innovative approach towards meeting customers' needs.

Corporate data

Company name

CHUGOKU MARINE PAINTS, LTD.

Head offices

Tokyo Office

Tokyo Club Building, 2-6, Kasumigaseki 3-chome,

Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 100-0013 Japan

Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone]

Hiroshima Office

1-7,Meiji-Shinkai,Otake-shi,Hiroshima-ken

739-0652, Japan

Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone]

Company president

Kenshi Date

Date of establishment

May 1917

Capital

11,600 million yen

Stock exchange

First section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange(Code #4617)

Net sales

82,442 million yen in FY2020 (Consolidated)

32,434 million yen in FY2020 (Non-consolidated)

Transition of Annual Net Sales		Consolidated
yen)					Non-consolidated
million	800
(100	600
NetSales
200
	400
	0	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020 (FY)

Number of employees

End of March 2021

2,276 (Consolidated)

474 (Non-consolidated / Male: 392 Female: 82)

1. As of March 31, 2021, the number of nonpermanent employees on a consolidated basis was 200, or approximately 8.1% of the

total workforce.

Company logo (established in 1992)

Our company logo is based on a design selected from about

250 designs submitted in response to a group-wide invitation that was issued as part of the 75th anniversary memorial project. This logo carries our hopes for major future growth of the CMP group, with the red highlight indicating a passionate "human"power that continues to seek new challenges.

Company mascot "PENTARO®" born in 2017 in

commemoration of the 100th anniversary. (Trademark Registration No. 5813014)

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Chugoku Marine Paints,Ltd . Social & Environmental Report 2021

Japan networks

Head Office

Technical Headquater

Factories in Japan

Tokyo Head Office	Technical Headquater
	(Hiroshima Pref.)

ISO 9001

Kyushu Factory

ISO 9001 ISO 14001

Hiroshima Head Office	Technical Headquater ISO 9001 ISO 14001	Shiga Factory	ISO 9001 ISO 14001
	(Shiga Pref.)

Factories at Japanese subsidiaries

Hokkaido

Head office

Factory

Sales office

					Sendai	Kobe Paints, Ltd.	ISO 9001
Shiga
Osaka
Hyogo
Onomichi
Kure	Tokyo
Hiroshima
Nagoya
			Shizuoka
			Marugame	Ohtake-Meishin Chemical	ISO 9001
			Co., Ltd.
		Usuki	Imabari
				Japanese subsidiaries
		Fukuoka
		Saga			CMP Planning, Ltd.	Kobe Paints, Ltd.
		Sasebo
		Nagasaki			Ohtake-Meishin Chemical Co., Ltd.	Sanyo Kosan Co. Ltd.
					Bunsei Trading Co. Ltd.	Global Engineering Service, Co., Ltd.

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