SDGs through our businesses
Connection people and nature to the future
Connection people and nature to the future
“Control the Heat” Krosaki Harima's Mission
In order to make a prosperous society sustainable and pass on a beautiful Earth to future generations, through our work, we are working hard to solve problems through the application of these 4 ideas: Contributing to society with heat management technology, Being a company that values people, A relationship with the community and Continuing to protect the global environment.
We support the philosophy behind the SDGs, as they address universal issues, and aim to be a company that supports the well-being of people in the future and the conservation of the global environment as we contribute to the realization of a sustainable society.
SDGs through our four businesses
Krosaki Harima’s Mission
「CONTROL THE HEAT 」
Contributing to society with technology
CONTROL THE HEAT
Using our heat management technology, we will continue to support a sustainable society not only in iron manufacturing but also through a wide range of fields from comfortable urban development to medicine, and even to the field of space.
「GLOBAL」
A company that values people
GLOBAL
The Krosaki Harima Group, with our group companies throughout the globe, is focusing on efforts towards job security, human resource development and the empowerment of women. We are also furthering various avenues of support for the employees of our overseas group companies, their families and people of those localities.
「TOWN & SOCIETY」
A relationship with the community
TOWN & SOCIETY
We assist in the construction of facilities using recycled materials and the development of infrastructure overseas for better urban development. On top of this, we actively participate in a number of community activities through our track and field club team, and by doing so, we will take each step toward the future together with the community.
「NATURE」
Continuing to protect the global environment
NATURE
We strive to purify and reuse industrial wastewater with the end goal of converting it back into a global resource as clean water. We are also working to protect the global environment by undertaking activities such as recycling mineral resources and planting seedlings.
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No Poverty
End poverty in all its forms everywhere
Our Efforts
- Donations to domestic welfare organizations
- Job creation through the establishment of companies overseas
- Managing schooling and hospital visits for the employees of our overseas group companies
02Zero Hunger
End Hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
Our Efforts
- Local career support activities at our overseas group companies
- Taking on foreign trainees
03Good Health and Well-being
Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
Our Efforts
- Conducting risk assessments of the chemicals we handle
- Providing ceramic products to the medical field
- Implementing health promotion measures for employees (household medicines, etc.)
- Providing customers with products that take the environment into consideration
- Providing high temperature insulation fiber that is safe to health
- Selling refractories and equipment that do not adversely affect the working environment
04Quality Education
Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
Our Efforts
- Promoting education to further employee skills (OJT, OFF-JT, Gaining qualifications, etc.)
- Visiting schools to raise interest in manufacturing, Tatara ironmaking demonstrations and student factory tours
- Putting training on refractory kilns and functionality into effect at overseas group companies
- Donating to universities to contribute towards increasing educational opportunities for students
- Providing education (using dispatched instructors), as appropriate, to contribute to the career development of female employees and their motivation to work
- Managing schooling for employees of overseas group companies
- Local career support activities at our overseas group companies
05Gender Equality
Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
Our Efforts
- Giving comprehensive education to combat the different kinds of harassment, including power harassment and sexual harassment
- Expanding the recruitment of female employees (including at manufacturing sites)
- Actively promoting the advancement of female managers
- Implementation of a maternity and childcare leave system
06Clean Water and Sanitation
Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
Our Efforts
- Promoting water quality risk management
07Affordable and Clean Energy
Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
Our Efforts
- Providing heat insulating materials to the energy industry (Wind power generation, hydrogen, nuclear power, biomass)
- Development and provision of high thermal conductivity refractories with excellent heat recovery
- Effectively using factory waste heat
- Utilizing unused land for solar power generation
- Design and construction of energy-saving industrial furnaces
08Decent Work and Economic Growth
Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
Our Efforts
- Enhancing various systems and measures to achieve a work-life balance
- Introducing a system for the extension of the mandatory retirement age
- Danger sensing training
- Small group activities and award program
09Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
Our Efforts
- Developing ceramic products and pursuing the improvement of furnace construction technology for the material and energy industries
- Pursuing the development of insulation technology for the automobile and storage battery industries
- Pursuing the development of ceramic products for the medical, space and semiconductor and communications industries
- Providing heat insulation panels and heat shield bricks to housing, building materials and other environmental resource circulation related industries
- Licensing technology overseas
10Reduced Inequalities
Reduce inequality within and among countries
Our Efforts
- Promoting the employment of people with disabilities
- Increasing the recruitment of women and foreigners
- Actively promoting the advancement of female managers
- Appointing executives from the foreign staff at our overseas group companies
- Implementation of training in Japan targeted at employees of consolidated subsidiaries overseas
- Putting harassment education into action
- Improving the living environment of employees in developing countries
11Sustainable Cities and Communities
Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
Our Efforts
- Supplying landscape materials made using recycled materials
- Providing pedestrian-friendly pavement materials that diminish road surface temperatures
- Providing pavement materials that are resistant to stains, prevent UV discoloration and withstand vehicle traffic
- Supplying energy-saving garbage incinerators
- Improving the living environment of employees in developing countries
12Responsible Consumption and Production
Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
Our Efforts
- Utilizing recycled raw materials for products
- Reducing industrial waste loss
- Using local manufacturing to reduce the transportation energy and to simplify packaging
13Climate Action
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
Our Efforts
- Promoting the reduction of CO2 emissions in the production process (Advancing non-firing and amorphous refractories, LED lighting, promoting telework, etc.)
- Reducing customers CO2 emissions (development of refractories with high durability and reduced heat loss)
14Life Below Water
Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
Our Efforts
- Promoting water quality and soil risk management as well as chemicals management
- Implementation of environmental incident response training
15Life on Land
Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
Our Efforts
- Participating in community clean-up activities
- Promoting water quality and soil risk management as well as chemicals management
- Controlling the usage rate of mined raw materials by applying the 3Rs
16Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
Our Efforts
- Elimination of criminal syndicates and others who negatively impact society
- Thorough regulation of the export of goods and technology
17Partnerships for the Goals
Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
Our Efforts
- Strengthening cooperation with group companies, including those overseas
- Actively participating in the WRA (World Refractories Association)