For the Mitsubishi Chemical Group to continue its daily business activities, the cooperation of numerous business partners is essential. These partners include raw materials suppliers, plant maintenance companies, logistics companies, and subcontractors working onsite.
Mitsubishi Chemical views those companies that cooperate with its operations as business partners, and aims to build trust while continue growing together with them. We have also established purchasing guidelines to ensure fair and equitable transaction practices.
Mitsubishi Chemical conducts transactions pursuant to the Subcontractor Act Compliance Rules established in April 2008. The Subcontractor Act Compliance Rules clearly establishes an organization for complying with the Subcontractor Act, and specifically stipulates the intentions and scope of application of the Subcontractor Act and compliance matters in tasks related to order placement and payment.
During fiscal 2010, we urged employees to participate in seminars offered by outside parties, in addition to in-house study meetings, to ensure full compliance with the matters stipulated by the Subcontractor Act Compliance Rules. Also, plant purchasing departments were audited to confirm compliance with the Subcontractor Act. Study meetings and audits will continue to be held during fiscal 2011 as well, to ensure compliance with the Subcontractor Act.
CSR briefing to business partners
Mitsubishi Chemical aims to promote CSR activities together with its business partners, to help build a sustainable society. As part of these efforts, we have established Green Information Management System in 2006, to comprehensively manage and convey information on chemical substances contained in products with the cooperation of our business partners. Also in 2006, purchasing guidelines were established for building fair and equitable relations with business partners, and we have asked them to promote their own CSR initiatives.
In fiscal 2010, a CSR briefing for business partners was held to explain the following areas to 170 raw materials manufacturers: (1) Mitsubishi Chemical's concept on CSR; (2) promoting CSR by business partners; and (3) requesting cooperation with the CSR questionnaire on ideas and activities of CSR by Mitsubishi Chemical. The briefing was also attended by business partners of our Group companies Japan Polychem Corporation and Dia Packaging Materials Co., Ltd.
The CSR questionnaire was distributed to business partners accounting for 90% or more of purchases by value from our purchasing divisions and plant purchasing departments, including the 170 companies that participated in the briefing. More than 90% responded, or an average of 34 out of 36 points. A similar questionnaire was also distributed to business partners involving materials. Overall, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation and Mitsubishi Chemical Engineering Corporation asked a total of 400 companies for their cooperation.
Based on the results of CSR questionnaires, we plan to promote CSR activities further while feeding back the aggregation results to business partners.
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