The SEKISUI CHEMICAL Group announced the financial results of the Fiscal Year 2017 lately. The company increased its operating income for the ninth consecutive year and set record net profits for the fifth year in a row. The operating income mark of 100 billion Yen has not been met but the Fiscal Year 2018 is meant to open up a new phase of growth to achieve this milestone.
Sandra Caire and her family love nature and care about environment. She is working as Process Development Engineer at Sekisui Specialty Chemicals in Tarragona, Spain, and takes care of sustainable projects in her free time. It is more than deserved that Sandra receives an award as one of SEKISUI’s “Greenest Persons 2017”.
SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD. has been ranked as one of the “Most Sustainable Corporations in the World” by the Canadian organisation “Corporate Knights”.
Miriam Stadje from Germany is working as a English Business Coordinator at SEKISUI headquarters in Tokyo. In this position, she has the opportunity to experience and learn the Japanese language and business culture – but she will also shape the evolution of SEKISUI’s global business by developing the English language and communication skills of the employees. We asked her about her work abroad, her responsibilities and tasks.
From 23rd to 28th of April the SEKISUI SQUASH OPEN took place at Sportpark Pilatus in Kriens, Switzerland. For the seventh time professionals and hobby players were participating in this sport challenge and competed for an attractive prize money.
Hiroshi Kobayashi acts as Managing Director for SEKISUI Europe B.V. (SEBV) since the beginning of 2018. We met him at his office in Roermond, Netherlands, to talk about his plans, his tasks and the future of SEKISUI’s business in Europe.
Working for a global company like SEKISUI has a lot of advantages. There are subsidiaries all over the world and you can roll out businesses internationally. But that comes with some issues: how to communicate correctly with employees of different countries? How to translate guidance from the parent company correctly? And how to act the right way in everyday international business?
From October 2017 to February 2018, the Japanese SEKISUI Safety Group carried out safety audits at 6 European production sites in order to further improve the safety of European employees in the workplace.
