Sustainability

Other initiatives

GCI Group Sustainable Procurement Policy

1. We conduct procurement activities that consider environmental conservation with the aim of creating a recycling-oriented society.
2. We comply with laws and social norms ,and conduct sound and fair procurement activities.
3. We respect basic human rights in our procurement activities.
4. We carry out procurement activities with an emphasis on product quality, productivity improvement, and safety.
5. We strive to properly manage information obtained from business partners.
6. We work on safety and health activities and aim to create a healthy and prosperous society.

We have established a procurement policy in accordance with the GCI Group's Sustainability Policy.

Declaration of Partnership Building

Our company declares that it will focus on the following items in order to build new partnerships by promoting cooperation and coexistence and co-prosperity with all of our supply chain business partners and businesses that aim to create value.

1 Coexistence and co-prosperity across the entire supply chain and new collaboration that transcends scale and affiliation.

We work to improve the added value to the supply chain as a whole by reaching out not only to direct suppliers but also to suppliers deeper in the supply chain and aim to build coexistence and co-prosperity with our suppliers through collaboration that goes beyond existing business relations and company sizes.

(Individual items)
- ・We work to create new businesses through open innovation.
- ・We contribute to a carbon-neutral society by considering decarbonized and low-carbon production processes.
2 Compliance with the Promotion Standards

We comply with desirable trade practices between the parent businesses and subcontractors (“Promotion Standards” based on the Act on the Promotion of Subcontracting Small and Medium-sized Enterprises), including improving the method of ordering, improving the method of pricing, improving the method of payment, improving the terms of transactions of molds, protection of intellectual properties, and ensuring proper transactions, and actively work to correct trade practices and business practices that hinder building partnerships with suppliers.
3 Other
- ・We position suppliers as important stakeholders in the GCI Group CSR Policy and work to achieve mutual increases in corporate value by conducting honest transactions in compliance with laws and regulations and social norms.

After understanding the content of the Promotion Standards based on the Act on the Promotion of Subcontracting Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, we hereby make a declaration.

January 1, 2026
Gun Ei Chemical Industry
President & CEO
Kiichiro Arita

Other

Investment in intellectual property

At the GCI Group, under our long-term vision (what we ought to be) of aiming to become Green Chemical Industry (GCI) that contributes to a sustainable growth of society by creating solutions globally through the development and restructuring of synthesis and saccharification technologies, we are continually taking on the challenge of producing new technology. When such activities result in the development of new intellectual property, we work actively to secure our rights to that new technology both within and outside Japan by working from a global perspective to secure our rights and promote the effective use of them throughout the group respecting the intellectual property rights of third parties.
We have also put in place a comprehensive system for rewarding inventors of new technology while making every effort to encourage activities that result in ongoing creation of advanced, high-quality intellectual property. Furthermore, as we develop intellectual property and accumulate patents, we provide opportunities for discussions between our development, sales, and marketing departments to encourage the use of intellectual property as an important tool in our technical and business strategies to ensure that our intellectual property contributes to our business activities.
Through the continued provision of practical training on intellectual property for our employees, we keep on strengthening our creative foundations as we work to further improve our corporate value.
(Research and development expenses: 1,427 million yen, research development expenses as a percentage of sales revenue: 4.56% [FY 2025 consolidated results])

GCI Group has received a Certificate of Thanks from the Gunma Prefectural Police in recognition of our efforts to combat cybercrime

Recently, GCI Group was honored to receive a Certificate of Thanks from the Gunma Prefectural Police in recognition of the significant efforts we have made to cooperate in the fight against cyberattacks.
Gunma Prefectural Police designated the GCI Group as a Critical Infrastructure Provider*, and our company is a member of the Gunma Prefecture Cyberterrorism Countermeasures Association. We work regularly in close cooperation with the Gunma Prefectural Police and the National Police Agency to remain aware of the latest trends in cyberattacks, provide samples of suspicious software found by our company, and perform vulnerability testing. As cybercrimes become increasingly sophisticated, we will continue to work together with investigative authorities and securities companies to implement effective security measures.

*Critical Infrastructure Provider
Critical infrastructure providers are those businesses that provide the infrastructure foundational for the lives of citizens on the nation’s economic activity, whereby a decline in the quality or interruption of the infrastructure service would result in significant social disruption.
The government has designated 14 critical infrastructure industries, including telecommunications, finance, aviation, airports and ports, railways, power generation, gas, governmental administration, medical services, water services, logistics, chemicals, credit services, and the oil industry.

Introduction of telematics service

Recently, an increasing number of devices are connected to the Internet through the Internet of Things (IoT). One example of the IoT is telematics services. These services allow transmission and receipt of various information from moving vehicles via the installation of Internet-enabled devices To manage safe driving and promote environmentally friendly driving, we have installed Internet-enabled vehicle data recorders on some of our fleet vehicles.