As members of society, companies are being called upon to develop sustainably while aiming to achieve harmony with society, meet the expectations of their stakeholders, and make proactive contributions to society. The ADEKA Group for its part is strongly aware of the importance of the social responsibility held by companies.
"Working hard to be a forward-looking organization by staying on the cutting edge"
"Being a respected member of the world community" Based upon these two management policies, we provide safe, high quality products and services which are suited to the needs of society with the intent of thereby contributing to the realization of a sound and affluent society.

If you were to view our company's history as a thread, you would see that it stretches back to 1917, when our predecessors established an electrolysis business originating from the mentality that "if your core business can be achieved a day earlier, then this can serve the interests of the nation and the welfare of the people a day sooner." This came on account of the export controls for caustic soda imposed on Japan by the British at the time, which put domestic industry in a difficult position. Put simply, the founding mentality for our company was full of ambition in aspiring to bring about gains by contributing to the nation and the people. In its current manifestation, this exists as "CSR management." We believe that this involves companies advancing the cause of benefiting society in a variety of ways, including promoting business while complying with laws and ordinances, hiring employees and safeguarding their livelihood, actively dealing with the environment, contributing to society and local communities, and more. Recently, changes in the environment surrounding companies have grown precipitous as a result of the globalization of business and advance of the IT society, as well as other factors such as the rise of newly emerging countries like China and India and the steep climbs in resource prices. Amidst such circumstances, our company's underlying identity of "pursuing the national interest and public welfare" has flown in an unbroken manner on the foundation of our company group as it currently carries out its business. We feel that this mentality is absolutely indispensable for the future as well.

Our company group has positioned CSR as the center of our management. We have formulated the ADEKA Group Five Year Plan for CSR, which is centered around the Expert Panel for the Promotion of CSR that was established last year, with all of our companies working in unison to address CSR activities based upon this plan. Furthermore, we have also been striving to strengthen corporate governance, enhance and thoroughly ensure compliance and internal control systems, and further raise the soundness and transparency of management.

Accidents responsible for burns which were caused by our Microwave-Heated Hot Water Bottles, for which production and sales were suspended in December 1998, have arisen in this current fiscal year as well. We would like to offer our heartfelt apologies to everyone that was inconvenienced by this problem. For the future, we will aim to strengthen product recalls and strive to ensure product safety with the desire of taking all possible measures to prevent product accidents in advance. Moreover, we would like to offer our humble apologies for the rupture and fire accident that occurred in July 2007 at the Mie Factory of Oxirane Chemical Corporation, a group company, and for the enormous trouble and worry it engendered on everyone involved, including the victims and all of the surrounding residents. To ensure that such accidents do not occur again, our group is working toward thorough recurrence prevention measures and striving for safe factory management.