Staying active, train for a great race and strengthening the team spirit. This was the motivation of six Sekisui Specialty Chemicals employees to run the Houston Marathon this year. We wondered how the training sessions went alongside work and what suggestions the sportive runners have.
Last year, SEKISUI headquarters were looking for a graduate to work as English Business Coordinator in Tokyo. Alexander Howard Horgan from England was finally chosen to join the Human Resources Department and the team of Miriam Stadje from Germany. In the future, he will be responsible to promote SEKISUI’s global business by developing the English communication skills of the employees in Japan. We asked him about his first experiences in the home country of SEKISUI.
At the beginning of February, the time had come again: The QESH manager of all SEKISUI companies met to talk about current environment activities in Europe and learn about the current environmental plans and how to implement them from Japanese colleagues. This year, the event was hosted by SEKISUI Diagnostics in the UK. Together with the Environmental Management Group the company prepared an interesting and diverse two-day program at their site in Kent.
For the 53rd time, the Global KAIZEN Convention took place in Kyoto, Japan. At the end of January, representatives from all over the world met and presented their KAIZEN project. Among them: Pedro Soler from SEKISUI Specialty Chemicals, who won the European KAIZEN Convention in 2018.
With the construction of a new production plant for thermal interface materials for environmentally friendly vehicles SEKISUI is expanding its business in Europe. The plant operations are planned to start in spring of 2020 – the construction was started with a ground-breaking ceremony on February 4th.
The beginning of 2019 marked an important phase of the SEKISUI CHEMICAL Group. While the fiscal year 2019 is the final year of the Medium-term Management Plan and the end of SHIFT 2019 – FUSION –, the year we will also be about creating the next Medium-term Management Plan.
SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD. has been ranked again as one of the “Most Sustainable Corporations in the World” by the Canadian organisation “Corporate Knights”.
In November 2018, Manabu Okubo from the SEKISUI Environmental Management Group attended the Natural Capital Coalition Collaboration Day in Paris as part of Natural Capital Week*. The event was held in Palais Brongniart, an exhibition center in the heart of Paris. Kate Gilmartin from SEKISUI Overseas Management Group was there and gives a short event report:
