Unipres' : Sustainability updated.

■ Unipres Group Basic Policy for Sustainability

The Unipres Group, through our excellence in press technologies, shall contribute to the realization of environmentally friendly and safer
society globally.
We shall build a trust-based relationship with our stakeholders by fair and sincere business activities.
In this way, we shall create economic and social values at once to enable sustainable development of society and the Unipres Group in a
mutually beneficial manner.

In order to further strengthen our sustainability management in accordance with our Basic Policy for Sustainability, we established the Sustainability Committee in April 2022.
The Sustainability Committee is supervised by the Board of Directors and deliberates materiality (key issues) and medium- and long-term goals to address these issues. The committee also reports and makes proposals to the Board of Directors, as appropriate, concerning policies, targets, action plans, progress, and achievements related to sustainability, including internal control.
In addition, five specialist committees will be established under the Sustainability Committee, with each specialist committee focusing on ESG specific issues.
The Committee is chaired by the president and consists of members appointed by the Board of Directors from among executive officers.

In 2017, we identified ESG materiality (key issues) as our management issues so that the Unipres Group will achieve sustainable growth and help develop a sustainable society by providing solutions to global social issues that the SDGs address.
We review the ESG materiality as necessary to reflect social conditions and stakeholder opinions (most recently reviewed in March 2022).
The process for identifying materiality is shown below.

Step 1: Sift social issues to examine from the rest

We have selected 110 issues, taking account of not only the relevant guidelines (e.g., the GRI Standards, ISO 26000, and the SASB standards), but ESG-related external assessments (e.g., the FTSE ESG and MSCI ESG Indexes), actions taken by competitors who serve as our benchmarks, and new issues surrounding sustainability that the SDGs present.

We classified the 110 issues selected in Step 1 into Categories E, S, and G, and sorted redundant issues to identify matters highly relevant to our business activities.

We rated the 17 issues sifted from the rest in Step 2 from two axis: "importance for stakeholders" and "importance for Unipres." Then we mapped the outcomes to the matrix to identify the "key sustainability issues facing the Unipres Group (materiality)."
When rating importance, we took account of our medium- and long-term initiatives and policies along with trends in the industry, and tried to incorporate stakeholders' various expectations wherever possible.

We identified the eight most important matters as materiality (key issues). The eight materiality issues were discussed by the Sustainability Committee and ultimately approved and determined by the Board of Directors.
Our relevant departments set targets for materiality and other ESG issues, and the Sustainability Committee and other related committees regularly check progress and evaluate the degree of achievement at the end of each fiscal year to implement the PDCA cycle.

A wide variety of important stakeholders have an effect on the Unipres Group's business activities. We will continue our efforts to communicate with stakeholders, build mutual understanding, and forge relationships of trust in order to maintain the growth of the Unipres Group and facilitate the sustainable development of society at large.

Sales/proposal activities, quality assurance activities, and joint research activities