In our long-term vision LSV 2030, which targets the fiscal year ending March 2030, the LINTEC Group has established the basic policy of “contributing to realizing a sustainable world by strengthening our corporate structure through innovation and creating new products and businesses for sustainable growth.” Guided by this basic policy, we have established key initiatives and materiality, incorporated initiatives into the medium-term management plan formulated every three years, and implemented them. Our initiatives to reduce CO₂ emissions are progressing steadily. Specifically, we achieved our initial targets ahead of schedule in the fiscal year ended March 2024, and have subsequently raised the target. We are also steadily strengthening the linkage between management and sustainability promotion toward the achievement of our long-term vision, including by enhancing human capital initiatives through measures such as introducing a retirement age of 65 and diversifying recruitment methods, as well as linking non-financial indicators to executive compensation.
In recent years, in addition to changes in the business environment, demands from stakeholders have become increasingly sophisticated, and both the communication of an integrated financial and non-financial value creation story and assessments of its effectiveness are subject to increasingly rigorous scrutiny. Moreover, by further embedding our sustainability initiatives and activities, the LINTEC Group aims to better enhance the effectiveness of sustainability management through a more strategic and robust promotion system and highly transparent information disclosure.

To enhance effectiveness and improve our activities and systems, we conducted a survey of outside directors who are members of the Sustainability Committee. The survey covered a wide range of topics, including evaluations of past activities and systems, linkage with management strategy, and the approach to information disclosure, from which we obtained opinions and recommendations from multiple perspectives. Based on this feedback, we will clarify the priority of each issue and conduct discussions and make decisions in the Sustainability Committee. Decisions will then be communicated to the committees, subcommittees, and departments responsible for implementation, and we will work to translate them into results by visualizing progress and conducting continuous monitoring. Furthermore, enhancing effectiveness requires not only management but every employee to understand “for what purpose,” “by when,” “what” they should do, and “which goal it contributes to,” and to act with an awareness of the connection between their own work and sustainability. To further promote understanding across the company, in fiscal 2025 we launched an internal portal site that provides sustainability-related information in an integrated manner, through which we are establishing a foundation that enables employees to understand the relationship between their own work and sustainability and take action proactively.

In fiscal 2026, we will work to ensure the achievement of the targets of LSV 2030 – Stage 2 while moving forward with the formulation of plans for Stage 3, which will be important to realize LSV 2030. Even as the business environment and other circumstances change, the key initiatives established under LSV 2030 remain initiatives that we must continue to emphasize. We will update specific initiatives and targets in response to changes in the environment and continue to promote them. Our initiatives include the following: on the environmental front, we will further advance decarbonization, expand environmentally friendly products, and promote resource circulation. On the social front, we will promote human capital management and the appointment of human resources in line with business strategy. On the governance front, we will enhance our sustainability promotion system and further strengthen risk management. Furthermore, by closely integrating each of these initiatives with management strategy, we will seek the sustainable enhancement of corporate value.

Under our company motto, “Sincerity and Creativity,” the LINTEC Group has pursued manufacturing centered on four core technologies—adhesive applications, surface improvement, specialty papers and release materials production, and system development. Through these, we are simultaneously contributing to solving social issues and enhancing corporate value by solving the issues faced by our customers. Going forward, we will continue to build on these strengths, incorporating technological innovation and new ideas to further increase the value we provide and enhance corporate value. At the same time, by clearly disclosing the results of our initiatives from both quantitative and qualitative perspectives, we will use constructive dialogue with stakeholders to drive further, more in-depth advancements and contribute to the realization of a sustainable society.

We humbly request that our stakeholders continue to provide their understanding and support for the LINTEC Group’s initiatives, as well as their frank opinions and advice.