Vietnamese Subsidiary of SAKATA INX Awarded Bronze Medal in EcoVadis Sustainability Assessment

SAKATA INX CORPORATION (Headquarters: Nishi-ku, Osaka; Representative Director, President & CEO: Yoshiaki Ueno; Securities Code: 4633) announces that its Vietnamese subsidiary Sakata INX Vietnam Co., Ltd. has become the first SAKATA INX Group company in Asia to be awarded a bronze medal in a sustainability assessment by EcoVadis.
 

*The EcoVadis bronze medal is awarded to the top 35% according to their original scoring system (on a scale of 0-100).

EcoVadis (headquartered in Paris, France) conducts sustainability assessments of more than 150,000 companies in over 250 industries and over 185 countries through their global cloud-based platform. These sustainability assessments involve international experts who assign scores on a scale of 0-100 to measure companies' quality of sustainability on the four themes of the environment, labor and human rights, ethics, and sustainable material procurement, based on global sustainability standards such as the ten principles of the UN Global Compact, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), and ISO 26000.

The SAKATA INX Group seeks to strengthen ESG and sustainability initiatives that focus on global environment and local society, contributing to the realization of a sustainable community as a fair company that enjoys society's trust when it comes to the environment, labor and human rights, ethics, and sustainable material procurement for diverse stakeholders.

 About SAKATA INX CORPORATION

Founded in 1896, SAKATA INX is the world's third largest chemical manufacturer in sales of printing inks, with operations in more than 20 countries and regions worldwide, including Asia, the Americas, and Europe. The company manufactures and sells printing inks used for various packages, beverage cans, and information media, industrial inkjet inks and color toners for digital printing, and image display materials for liquid crystal displays. Under the business theme of "Creation of Visual Communication Technology," the company aims to "create an information culture that makes people's lives more comfortable" through environmentally-friendly and sustainable products and continues to take on the challenge of entering new fields.
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