Dialogue and Co-creation with Stakeholders
Sustainability Dialogue
To realize our purpose and create and deliver new value to society, we are engaging in dialogue and co-creation with a wide range of stakeholders. By promoting activities from an inclusive perspective and reflecting constructive dialogue in our management, we aim to achieve further growth as a co-creative chemical company.
Initiatives for Creating Value in Local Communities
Resonac, with the purpose of ‘Changing society through the power of chemistry,’ is advancing initiatives together with stakeholders such as local communities, customers, and business partners to promote happiness, prosperity, and harmony with the planet. Here, we introduce some of these efforts.”
Aiming to Become a Co-creative Chemical Company
To realize our Purpose, Resonac promotes co-creation with a diverse range of stakeholders, including employees, customers, shareholders and investors, local communities and governments, business partners, and the next generation.
Guided by an inclusive perspective, we continued dialogue and incorporated diverse views in management throughout 2025. We apply the insights gained to enhance the quality of our business activities, with the aim of achieving sustainable growth and enhancing corporate value over the medium to long term.
In addition to the examples presented on this page, Resonac Now introduces what is happening at Resonac today as the company pursues its Purpose and transforms itself with speed. Please take a look.
Co-creation with Stakeholders
Shareholders and Investors
Approach to Value Creation: Enhance Management Discipline and Transparency through Constructive Dialogue with the Capital Markets
We deepen dialogue with shareholders and investors and reflect their perspectives in management to enhance corporate value over the medium to long term.
Engagement Methods
- Ordinary General Meetings of Shareholders
- Financial results briefings, Sustainability Meetings, management policy briefings, business briefings, and briefings for individual investors
- Dialogue focused on ESG
- Small-group and individual meetings
Comments from Stakeholders
- Expectations regarding portfolio and structural reforms
- Expectations regarding our growth strategy centered on semiconductor and electronic materials
- Interest in capital efficiency, evaluation metrics, and KPIs
- Interest in employee engagement and corporate culture
- Greater transparency and comparability in environmental and human rights initiatives and disclosures
How We Reflected Feedback in Management
- Promoted portfolio reviews through business divestitures and spin-offs
- Actively invested in semiconductor and electronic materials
- Reviewed KPI design and target levels based on business characteristics
- Small-group and individual meetings
- Expanded disclosures through small-group meetings, Sustainability Meetings, the Integrated Reports, and other channels
- Examined value creation hypotheses and promoted the visualization of value created through our businesses
Example of Co-creation
Sustainability Meeting
At its annual Sustainability Meeting, Resonac explains its sustainability initiatives for enhancing corporate value to investors and other important stakeholders through discussions involving management and outside directors, leading to dialogue and co-creation. We also actively conduct one-on-one dialogues with shareholders and investors in Japan and overseas, receive feedback on progress toward financial and non-financial KPIs, and reflect that feedback in management.
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Community and Governments
Approach to Value Creation: Contribute to Community Well-being and Sustainable Development through Dialogue and Co-creation
We deepen mutual understanding through ongoing dialogue with local communities and governments and create value that contributes to sustainable community development and well-being.
Engagement Methods
- Social contribution activities in collaboration with local governments (education and the environment)
- Regular consultations, community briefings, and disaster response drills
- Disclosure of environmental, safety, and operational information, and plant tours
- Social contribution activities in collaboration with local governments (education and the environment)
Comments from Stakeholders
- Requests for safe operations, accident prevention, and reduced environmental impact
- Requests for sustainable community development and contributions to local economies
- Interest in transparency of information disclosure
- Improved reliability of emergency response
How We Reflected Feedback in Management
- Contributed to sustainable community development
- Increased investment in safety, environmental initiatives, and risk management
- Expanded dialogue with local communities and enhanced disclosures
- Developed crisis response systems
Example of Co-creation
Participation in the Ministry of the Environment’s “Decarbonization × Reconstruction Town Development Platform”(in Japanese only)
Resonac participates in a long-term collaborative initiative to achieve both decarbonization and reconstruction in the 12 municipalities and other areas of Fukushima Prefecture affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake. Resonac has three production and logistics sites in Fukushima Prefecture. We participate in information exchange and network building to support decarbonization and reconstruction-oriented community development, and take part in individual themes to which we can contribute, thereby continuing to support the reconstruction of affected communities.
Main Communication Channels
Plant tours, site reports, community newsletters, community dialogue, employee participation in community activities, outreach classes, sponsorship of community events, support for community organizations, and disaster relief
Customers
Approach to Value Creation: Create Social and Economic Value by Addressing Customer Challenges
Through diverse technologies and co-creation, we create value while ensuring a stable supply of safe and reliable products.
Engagement Methods
- Co-creation in the semiconductor materials field leveraging US-JOINT
- Technical proposals and joint development leveraging the Packaging and Power Solution Center
- Technical collaboration leveraging the Innovation Center
- Building long-term partnerships through the functional materials business
- Exhibitions and technical seminars
Comments from Stakeholders
- Stable supply and quality assurance for high-performance, highly reliable products
- Expectations for the development of products that contribute to society and the environment
- Expectations for improved technical proposal capabilities and development speed
- Requests to strengthen global responsiveness
How We Reflected Feedback in Management
- Made focused investment in semiconductor and electronic materials
- Advanced quality management systems
- Accelerated development of sustainable products
- Strengthened technological development capability and customer engagement functions
- Developed global supply systems
Example of Co-creation
Solving Social and Customer Challenges through Co-creation in the Resonac Way
To address customer challenges, Resonac pursues solution-oriented marketing activities that combine multiple products and technologies to make proposals that competitors cannot replicate, earn recognition for their value, and create high-value-added businesses. The Packaging Solution Center and Power Module Integration Center are symbolic examples of this co-creation initiative.
Main Communication Channels
News releases, exhibitions, product brochures, information disseminated through websites and other channels, and plant visits
Business Partners
Approach to Value Creation: Co-create Value through Collaboration with Business Partners
We work together across the supply chain to address environmental and social issues while enhancing value.
Engagement Methods
- Holding supplier briefings and sharing procurement policies
- Requests for understanding and support of the Sustainable Procurement Guidelines
- CSR evaluations and improvement support (CSR questionnaires), together with on-site visits to confirm CSR initiatives through dialogue (CSR visits)
- One-on-one dialogue and issue sharing
Comments from Stakeholders
- Ensuring fair transaction terms and maintaining long-term business relationships
- Understanding and support for cooperation in CSR initiatives
- Clarification of quality and delivery standards
- Requests for consultation in response to rising costs
How We Reflected Feedback in Management
- Strengthened sustainable procurement initiatives
- Enhanced supply chain risk management and strengthened BCP initiatives
- Promoted issue identification and improvement activities through collaboration and co-creation with business partners
- Reviewed procurement strategies and strengthened stable supply systems
Main Communication Channels
Joint compliance with the Sustainable Procurement Guidelines, supplier CSR assessments, and improvement support through CSR questionnaires, CSR visits, and follow-up
Employees
Approach to Value Creation: Organizational Culture that Encourages Employees to Take on Challenges
Based on our Purpose, we foster a culture in which diverse talent takes on challenges and promotes co-creation and transformation through dialogue.
Engagement Methods
- Employee engagement surveys and follow-up activities
- Communication between senior management and employees through town-hall meetings, Dialogue On-site, and other forums
- One-on-one and 360-degree feedback
- Organizational talent development and leadership training programs
- Information shared via posters, the Intranet, and other channels
Comments from Stakeholders
- Both concerns and expectations regarding transformation
- Requests for expanded career development and skill enhancement opportunities
- Interest in fairness of evaluations and compensation
- Expectations for greater flexibility and diversity in ways of working
- Nonproductive work processes
How We Reflected Feedback in Management
- Positioned human resource strategies at the core of management (advancing human capital management)
- Reviewed performance evaluation and compensation systems
- Mapped our talent, developed succession plans, and expanded investment in talent development
- Reformed organizational culture (enhanced psychological safety)
- Expanded the use of generative AI and the “No More Than Three Stamps” initiative (streamlined the approval process)
Example of Co-creation
REBLUC (Resonac Blue Creators)
We have built an internal community called REBLUC (Resonac Blue Creators) to put into practice and expand concrete actions to realize our Purpose, “Change society through the power of chemistry.” At REBLUC, members with diverse backgrounds engage in dialogue as they proactively reconsider and refine the Purpose they personally seek to realize. They also collaborate across departments on new business proposals and improvement activities, while promoting co-creation with external partners beyond corporate boundaries.
Main Communication Channels
Group newsletters, information sharing through the intranet, employee engagement surveys, dialogue between management and employees through town hall meetings and roundtables, various training programs, labor-management consultations, and family plant tours
Next Generation and Students
Approach to Value Creation: Expand Value Creation through Co-creation with the Next Generation
By engaging in dialogue with students, we incorporate new perspectives, learn together, and contribute to the realization of a sustainable society.
Engagement Methods
- University partnerships and joint research
- Internships and guest lectures
- Tours of plants and Research and Development Center
- Semiconductor laboratory classes and workshops
Comments from Stakeholders
- Expectations for contributions to solving social issues (people’s well-being and the environment)
- Expectations for growth opportunities and an environment that encourages challenge
- Interest in global career opportunities
- Interest in workplace environment and corporate culture
How We Reflected Feedback in Management
- Integrated solutions to social issues into business strategies and strengthened communications
- Revitalizing social contribution initiatives for the next generation, the environment, and other areas
- Clarified our Long-Term Vision for contributing to society and the environment
- Increased investment in education and research and development
- Implemented initiatives to enhance brand value and the ability to attract talent
Example of Co-creation
First participation in the inquiry-based learning program for junior and senior high school students, “Quest Education.” (in Japabese only)
In fiscal 2025, Resonac participated in Quest Education, an inquiry-based learning program for junior and senior high school students developed and provided by Education and Research Company. Quest Education enables students to take the initiative in inquiry-based learning using real-world society as its theme. In Corporate Access, the program in which Resonac participated, students engaged in inquiry activities for approximately one year based on a theme presented by Resonac, learning about the meaning of work and economic activity. We also held an exchange workshop with students who received an Excellence Award through the program and discussed a prosperous society ten years from now and their expectations for manufacturing companies. We will use the diverse perspectives and insights gained through co-creation and dialogue with the next generation to create value and innovation in the future and contribute to solving social issues.
Main Communication Channels
Outreach to university seminars, roundtable discussions with Resonac management, and joint research and development