RIKEN TECHNOS conducts social contribution activities rooted in local communities. As part of these efforts, our Mie Factory donated supplies—including an electronic piano, educational toys, illustrated reference books, and an LCD television set—to Kameyama Children’s Center. A donation ceremony was held on March 18, 2025, and a letter of appreciation was received from Yoshiyuki Sakurai, the mayor of Kameyama City.

The RIKEN TECHNOS GROUP will promote social contribution activities, including activities that contribute to local communities, and cooperate with local communities to undertake the Blue Challenge^* toward achieving a better society.

* “Blue Challenge” is a term that collectively refers to the RIKEN TECHNOS GROUP’s activities relating to contribution to a sustainable society.

About RIKEN TECHNOS Mie Factory
Located at Sugauchi-cho in Kameyama City, Mie Prefecture, the Mie Factory manufactures compounds, films, and food packaging (food wrap). It is scheduled to commence full-scale operation of a new line for thermoplastic elastomer compounds in the winter of 2025.

Sustainability initiatives of RIKEN TECHNOS
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RIKEN TECHNOS conducts social contribution activities rooted in the community. As part of these efforts, its Mie Factory has so far donated audio-visual materials to Kameyama City Library. Food packaging wraps produced by RIKEN TECHNOS had also been donated as disaster-prevention items.
In recognition of Mie Factory’s contributions toward enhancing library services and strengthening disaster-prevention measures, Kameyama City presented the factory with a letter of commendation at the ceremony held on January 11, 2025 commemorating the 20th anniversary of the city’s establishment.

The RIKEN TECHNOS GROUP promotes social contribution activities, including activities that contribute to local communities. The Group will cooperate with local communities to undertake the Blue Challenge^* toward achieving a better society.

* “Blue Challenge” is a term that collectively refers to the RIKEN TECHNOS GROUP’s activities relating to contribution to a sustainable society.

About RIKEN TECHNOS Mie Factory
Located at Sugauchi-cho in Kameyama City, Mie Prefecture, Mie Factory manufactures compounds, films, and food packaging (food wrap). It is scheduled to commence full-scale operation of a new line for thermoplastic elastomer compounds in the winter of 2025.

Sustainability initiatives of RIKEN TECHNOS
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Today, the environment surrounding the RIKEN TECHNOS GROUP is changing dramatically, with increasing environmental awareness, the move away from plastics, and other interest in social issues and greater demand for solutions to them. To work seriously on the sustainable growth of its business and the solving of social issues, the Group is developing a structure for promoting sustainability. The RIKEN TECHNOS GROUP accurately sees the risks and opportunities in business from the perspectives of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) areas, and incorporates them into its management strategies. In this way, the Group will continue to provide society with new value and solutions through its businesses and contribute toward solving social issues and realizing a sustainable society.
The sustainability website was revamped to further enhance information disclosure about these initiatives to stakeholders.

▼Sustainability website
URL: /e/csr/

The sustainability website introduces the sustainable activities being undertaken through business by the Group as well as its specific ESG-related initiatives. The website also publishes ESG data consolidating the Group’s indicators and targets in these activities.

【Key points of revamp】
■Enhancement of information disclosure
The website provides a comprehensive overview of the Group’s sustainability-related efforts, including its sustainability policy and promotion structure, sustainability-related important topics (materiality), as well as its ESG-related policies, systems, initiatives, and achievements. In addition, the Group also published items for which disclosure is required by external evaluation agencies, expanding its scope of disclosed information.
■Change in structure
The structure has been overhauled in accordance with the Group’s materiality topics. The Group’s sustainability-related activities are organized and disclosed in a manner that is easy to understand.
■Change in top page
To improve browsing convenience, the layout has been changed to allow smooth access to the various pages.

Going forward, the RIKEN TECHNOS GROUP will continue to emphasize dialogue with stakeholders and contribute to the realization of a sustainable society as well as seek enhancement of its corporate value.

【Related information】
▼Materiality topics
URL: /e/csr/materiality/
▼Integrated report
URL: /e/ir/integrated-report/

RIKEN ELASTOMERS CORPORATION, a U.S. subsidiary of RIKEN TECHNOS Corporation, will bloom cherry blossoms with the aim of creating sustainable societies.

RIKEN TECHNOS Corporation’s group companies, RIKEN AMERICAS CORPORATI ON and RIKEN ELASTOMERS CORPORATI ON (Kentucky State, U.S.A.), planted cherry trees as part of Blue Challenge * together with Boys & Girls Club’s educational support activities.

*Blue Challenge is a generic term for all activities of Riken Technos Group to achieve sustainable societies.

Protecting mountains, forests, and other terrestrial ecosystems to prevent desertification is a major challenge for sustainable development while minimizing impacts on climate change. To this end, we have discussed with the Economic Development Council (EDC) in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, to determine the appropriate location for donations of trees.

We are also planting cherry trees on the grounds of RIKEN ELASTOMERS CORPORATION to promote in-house greening.

Riken Technos Group will continue to promote SDGs actions (Blue Challenge) rooted in local communities.

As a Partner in Education member with Pembroke Elementary School, we support the teachers and students in a number of ways from tutoring to participating in their annual Career Fair.

This past December, we provided bouncers for the school’s Positive Behavior Intervention Support (PBIS) event.

Positive Behavior Intervention Support is a program that encourages students to exhibit positive behaviors and make smart choices.
PBIS is a multi-tiered system designed to be inclusive of all environments and link research-validated practices. Attention is focused on creating and sustaining primary (school wide), secondary (classroom), and tertiary (individual) systems of support that improve results for desired behaviors.

Pictured left to right: Krysti Wynn, Hunter Smillie, Barbara Meriwether (Pembroke Elementary Family Resource Counselor), Lauren Jeffcoat & Stacey Watts

We offer our heartfelt condolences to those affected by flooding in western Japan in July 2018. Our hearts go out to those who have lost their lives and to surviving family members.

Riken Technos Corporation will donate one million yen via the Japan Red Cross to aid disaster victims and to promote recovery in the affected areas.

In addition, as requested by affected communities, we have shipped supplies of Riken Wrap food wrap to help victims in their daily lives.

We offer our heartfelt wishes for the health and rapid recovery of those whose lives have been affected by this disaster and for the earliest possible recovery in the regions affected.

Dadan Iskandar Personnel Department, PT. RIKEN INDONESIA

Dadan Iskandar
Personnel Department, PT. RIKEN INDONESIAIt took me four hours by car and one and a half hours by boat from the office in MM 2100 Industrial Town to reach Pantai Bahagia, the village where the planting was to take place.

When I was crossing the river on a boat, I was able to see how people lived in the area around the river. Many people still lead difficult lives, using the river’s water for bathing, washing, and sanitation. In addition, the place in this village which used to be a mangrove forest was turned into a breeding facility for prawns. This damaged the forest’s function as a water catchment area, and became a cause of flooding. As a result, many people left the village, causing the village to sink further into poverty.

When I reached the village, the villages and LSM*2 taught me how to plant the mangrove trees, and told me where the saplings were. To get to the spot for planting, I had to pass through wetlands with marshes almost half a meter deep. It was tiring. Finally reaching the spot for planting, the participants managed to plant 14,150 mangrove trees with the help of the villagers. MM 2100 Industrial Town told us that the mangrove trees we planted have grown to 5 cm above the water line.

This was my first time planting mangrove trees. It was an enjoyable experience for me, and I felt honored to do my part for environmental conservation to maintain economic balance.

*1 MM 2100 Industrial Town: Located in the Bekasi area, this is the nearest industrial town to Jakarta.
*2 LSM: Abbreviation for Lembaga Swadaya Masyarakat, a non-government organization in Indonesia.

On a boat to the tree planting location

Planting trees

Commemorative photograph of the participants
The banner featuring PT. RIKEN INDONESIA’s name