The Paris Agreement by UNCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) marks a new course in the global climate effort: For the first time ever, all nations were brought into a common cause to undertake ambitious efforts to combat climate change and adapt to its effects. The Science Based Targets (“SBT”) Initiative is a collaborative effort between various environmental organizations to recognize the companies making efforts to counteract climate change.

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This fiscal year, SEKISUI developed a new CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) concept. Let’s have a look at the most important aspects and how they are adaptable to the different business fields.

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Sekisui Specialty Chemicals Europe has made great progress minimizing the CO₂footprint of its facility in Tarragona, Spain, through reduced energy consumption. Only in February this year, the QESH Managers met in Tarragona to learn from the current medium-term environmental plan, from Japanese colleagues and from each other. They shared knowledge and found effective solutions to reduce CO₂. The result is already measurable!

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For five days, the world’s leading trade fair for environmental technologies – the IFAT – addressed the topics water, sewage, waste and raw materials management in Munich, Germany. The industry’s products are in rising demand all over the world. This was also notable at the booth of SEKISUI Pipe Renewal: During the entire trade fair, the team informed interested visitors about trenchless pipe rehabilitation.

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The aviation industry is on an increasing trend worldwide as the number of passengers in air transport continues to increase. That is why KYDEX®, produced by SEKISUI SPI (SEKISUI Polymer Innovations) from the US, is rapidly growing on its tailwind. No question, SPI was part of Aircraft Interiors Expo, the Rolls Royce of tradeshows for the aviation interiors industry. Over 20,000 people from all roles in the aviation interiors industry gathered for three days in Hamburg, Germany.

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On May 23-25^th Sekisui Specialty Chemicals held its annual Global Commercial Conference in Frisco, Texas.  Representatives from key departments such as finance, sales, marketing, legal, supply chain, compliance, and HR came together from all over the world to discuss 2017 accomplishments and the upcoming goals for 2018.

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