Updated in July, 2025
The Denka Group’s initiatives aimed at realizing a sustainable society, guided by our ESG Basic Policy, have been highly evaluated by various ESG rating agencies around the world. (As of June 2025)
MSCI SELECTION INDEXES are comprehensive ESG indexes provided by MSCI, one of the world’s leading index providers. Based on ESG research conducted independently by MSCI, companies are rated and selected from various industries around the globe based on their relative performance. (As of June 2025)
MSCI Japan ESG Select Leaders Index A comprehensive ESG index provided by MSCI, one of the world’s leading index providers. Based on proprietary ESG research conducted by MSCI, companies that receive relatively high ESG ratings within each industry in Japan are selected. This index has been adopted by the Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) as one of its ESG indices, and Denka continues to be included in it. (As of June 2025)
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The S&P/JPX Carbon Efficient Index, jointly developed by Japan Exchange Group, Inc. and S&P Dow Jones Indices in the U.S., is based on the TOPIX, a representative stock index of the Japanese market. This index is composed mainly of companies with high levels of carbon efficiency (i.e., lower carbon emissions per unit of revenue) and higher levels of environmental information disclosure. This index has also been selected by the Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) as an ESG index, and Denka has been continuously included since its launch in 2018. (As of June 2025)
The SOMPO Sustainability Index is an active index created by SOMPO Asset Management by combining stock value evaluation with ESG scores derived from environmental and ESG management surveys conducted by SOMPO Risk Management. It is made up of approximately 300 highly rated companies. This index is currently used by several institutional investors including pension funds, and Denka continues to be included. (As of June 2025)
Denka announces that it was awarded an B rating in Climate Change, and a A rating in Water Security from the CDP 2024 scores released on Febuary 7th, 2025.
CDP, an international non-profit organization headquartered in London, was founded in 2000 as a collaboration of institutional investors around the world, and provides an environmental information disclosure system. It conducts surveys based on responses to questionnaires regarding its climate change, water security and forest categories, and it announces the results of its assessments of the transparency of environmental information disclosure and management's participation in these disclosures on a company-by-company basis. Over 24,000 organizations around the world disclosed data through CDP in 2023, with more than 23,000 companies - including listed companies worth two thirds global market capitalization - and over 1,100 cities, states and regions.
For “Climate Change”, Denka will establish a further detailed KPI in it’s management plan, “Mission2030”, and will plan a further pursuit of specific risks and opportunities for the company. For “Water Security”, Denka will continuously engage on the disclosure of adequate environmental information, by attempting to make improvements such as developing Denka’s water management to higher levels, gauging the impact on water resources caused by our corporate activities with more precision, and contributing to minimalizing the effects caused by these corporate activities.
EcoVadis (headquartered in France) is an international platform that evaluates suppliers’ sustainability performance based on four themes: Environment, Labor & Human Rights, Ethics, and Sustainable Procurement. Denka’s efforts toward sustainability have been recognized, and the company has received a “Commitment Badge” from EcoVadis. (As of March 2025)
Denka has been recognized as a Certified Health & Productivity Management Organization (White 500) as part of the “Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organization” program jointly operated by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Nippon Kenko Kaigi in cooperation with insurers. The company's 2025 recognition marked its third consecutive year receiving this distinction.
This certification is granted to companies that formulate a general employer action plan under the Act on Advancement of Measures to Support Raising Next-Generation Children, achieve the goals outlined in the plan, and meet specified standards. Denka has been certified for five consecutive years since 2021.
At a ceremony for the METI Industrial Standardization Awards held on October 8, Masahiro Ibukiyama, senior technical adviser (STA) within the New Business Planning and Development Department, received an Economy, Trade and Industry Minister’s Award.
The Industrial Standardization Awards are held by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) every year in October during the Industrial Standardization Promotion Month. The are a public acknowledgement of people’s meritorious services in industrial standardization, such as for the formulation of international or domestic standards or for conformity assessment activities.
STA Ibukiyama was highly praised for his services as a Japanese member and as secretariat committee manager of ISO/TC206 (Fine Ceramics), and for his efforts to establish international standards for phosphor materials used in white LEDs, thereby contributing to improving Japan’s position and strengthening its competitiveness.
METI (FY2019 Industrial Standardization Award Recipients)
https://www.meti.go.jp/press/2019/10/20191007001/20191007001.html
The global uruoi website, which is administered by Denka Corporation (New York, US), has been awarded Site of the Day (SOTD) by the international web design award, Awwwards.
Awwwards is a prominent web design award that is attracting the attention of web creators around the world. Using the four evaluation criteria of Design, Usability, Creativity and Content, jury members and registered users vote every day, and the best design and functional website is selected as the Site of the Day (SOTD).
The global uruoi website which won the SOTD award on this occasion, was evaluated highly, scoring at least 7.2 out of 10 in all four criteria. The website has been recently launched by Denka Corporation to strengthen sales of uruoi in the US.
Awwwards. website announcing the award:
https://www.awwwards.com/sites/uruoi-japanese-skincare
Global uruoi website:
https://uruoiskincare.com (recommended browsers: Google Chrome or Safari)
Yasuki Ito,General manager of Diagnostic Reagentｓ Academic Research Department at Denka Seiken Co., Ltd., which is a consolidated subsidiary of Denka Company Limited, has received the ZAK Award from the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) for services in developing “small, dense LDL-C,*1” a diagnostic reagent used in automated chemistry analyzers.*2
The ZAK Award was established by the AACC in 1990 in honor of Dr. Bennie Zak who rendered distinguished services in the field of clinical testing. It is an honorable award bestowed once every two years by the AACC Lipoproteins and Vascular Diseases Division (LVDD) to persons who have made remarkable contributions to clinical chemistry research in the same field.
The award ceremony took place on August 5, 2019 at an AACC LVDD seminar being held in Anaheim in the US. The recipient, Yasuki Ito, presented a commemorative speech after receiving the award from Katsuyuki Nakajima, chairman of the LVDD.
Denka Seiken has been selling the sd LDL-C diagnostic reagent based on this development in the US since July 2018 as an in-vitro diagnostic (IVD) reagent.*3 Being a product that can evaluate the risk of heart disease simply, quickly and cost-effectively, Denka Seiken is stepping up business expansion in Japan and China, as well as in the US, and will continue to contribute to the maintenance of human health and the prevention of disease.
Award ceremony at the AACC LVDD seminar on August 5, 2019 (Anaheim, US)
Yasuki Ito, general manager of the Diagnostic Reagent Science Department, Denka Seiken Co., Ltd. (left)
Katsuyuki Nakajima, chairman of the LVDD, American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) (right)
At the 39th Conference of the Society for Chemistry and Micro-Nano Systems (CHEMINAS39), which was held at Kanazawa University on May 27–28, Shuhei Aoyama of the Denka Innovation Center’s Advanced Technologies Research Institute received an Outstanding Research Award in the poster category.
His award-winning theme was “development of lateral flow immunoassay devices utilizing thermally imprinted polymeric sheets,” and proposed a new immunoassay platform utilizing micromachining technology. Details of Aoyama’s study will be published in the society’s journal at a later date.
Society’s website announcing the award:
http://cheminas.chips.jp/commendation/presentation-award/research-group-commendation/
A paper written by Denka researchers, including Shuhei Aoyama, has been printed in the March 2019 edition of Analyst, a UK scientific journal published by the Royal Society of Chemistry. The paper was so highly rated it was also selected for the cover of the journal.
The paper proposes a new immunoassay platform that utilizes a polymer sheet fabricated by nanoimprinting (a type of micromachining technology). The microcone structure produced on the sheet allows for the high-sensitivity and rapid detection of an intended antigen. In addition, by examining the types of polymeric materials used and the shape of the microstructure in detail, the researchers accomplished the high-sensitivity detection of proteins in blood. Given the high degree of homogeneity and transparency compared to existing immunoassay kits, this new platform is expected to be applied as a next-generation immunoassay platform.
Thermally imprinted microcone structure-assisted lateral-flow immunoassay platforms for detecting disease marker proteins
marker proteins
Shuhei Aoyama, Yuto Akiyama, Kenji Monden, Masumi Yamada and Minoru Seki*
Analyst, 2019, 144, 1519−1526. * This article has been co-authored with Chiba University.
[Link to paper]
http://xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=C8AN01903G
[Link to front cover]
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2019/an/c9an90022e/unauth#!divAbstract
At a ceremony for the METI Industrial Standardization Awards held on Octo...
The global uruoi website, which is administered by Denka Corporation (New...
Yasuki Ito,General manager of Diagnostic Reagentｓ Academic Research Depar...
At the 39th Conference of the Society for Chemistry and Micro-Nano System...
A paper written by Denka researchers, including Shuhei Aoyam...