In recent years, concern has been growing over the significant impact of worldwide climate change and environmental degradation on future generations. This threat has triggered a movement to build a more sustainable society on a global level, including accelerating corporate efforts to achieve carbon neutrality. At the same time, new businesses are emerging around generative AI, and the use of software is powering the digital transformation (DX) of society and companies. These shifts are expected to only accelerate going forward, driving rapid, dramatic changes in both our lifestyles and the business environment.
The SCREEN Group believes these remarkable technological innovations offer opportunities to provide solutions to a wide range of issues facing society. This involves providing new value in the form of technologies, products, and services to support the electronics and IT industries as they play a core role in delivering the advanced social infrastructure expected in the near future. Contributing in this way to the realization of a sustainable world as a solution creator is our primary mission.
Message from the management
Generating New Social Value as a Solution Creator: Addressing Social Issues through Business
Providing new value to a rapidly changing and increasingly complex world
Representative Director, Chairman, Member of the Board
(Right) Masato Goto
Representative Director, President, Member of the Board, Chief Executive Officer
Innovation for a Sustainable World:
Connecting people and technology for a better future
The SCREEN Group has defined its purpose as “Innovation for a Sustainable World.” This embodies the beliefs we have held since our founding in the importance of advancing future-oriented technological innovation with the potential to contribute to the development of society and, by doing so, experiencing personal growth as individuals respected on the world stage. By putting these beliefs into practice, we strive to fulfill our corporate social responsibility. In line with the SCREEN Group CSR Charter, every member of the Group practices responsible behavior as a good corporate citizen.
The SCREEN Group seeks ways to contribute to the resolution of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues through business activities. We pursue sustainable management to achieve ongoing growth by reinvesting capital earned by creating shared value (CSV), comprising both social and economic value. Under Sustainable Value 2026, our sustainability medium-term plan aimed at 2026, we are proactively working to address long-term ESG issues in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Specifically, in terms of environmental issues, we are working to alleviate negative environmental impacts through our businesses. These efforts include reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and energy use in business activities; providing highly energy-efficient products; using water effectively; and realizing harmony between human society and nature. In the area of social issues, we are supporting the employment of people with disabilities; expanding career paths for diverse talent, including women, foreign nationals, and mid-career hires; and working to ensure safe and healthy workplaces throughout the supply chain. In addition, we are committed to effectively eliminating conflict minerals, preventing corruption, and eradicating child labor across our entire value chain while promoting the development of local industry and culture through collaboration spanning industry, academia, and government. We also support academic institutions and the development of young people, who will lead society in the future. Finally, in the area of corporate governance, we implement management systems that conform to international standards and maintain effective business continuity planning and risk management systems.
Working as a united group, we are striving to advance value creation toward our future vision for both society and the SCREEN Group. As always, we remain fully committed to living up to the expectations and trust of our many stakeholders as we continue working to realize a sustainable world.
Stepping up sustainable management
Executive Officer,
Head of Sustainability Strategy
The flexibility to turn change into growth
In the area of sustainability, we are seeing—and will likely continue to see—wide-ranging changes of unpredictable scale and speed.
Looking at climate and energy policy, for example, the “Trump 2.0” administration has announced reversals of decarbonization policy, sparking concerns about negative impacts on environmental measures globally. At the same time, environmental considerations have expanded rapidly from climate change to include biodiversity, and geopolitical risks are growing increasingly serious. To implement sustainability strategy in these circumstances, flexibility and speed in business management will be crucial in order to be more alert to change while accurately understanding and meeting new risks and opportunities.
In the current fiscal year, the SCREEN Group has launched the Sustainability Planning Department and increased the frequency of the Sustainability Committee’s meetings, enabling more agile discussion and decision making related to incorporating ESG-related factors into strategy. In terms of changes, the inclusion of sustainability information as part of statutory disclosure in annual securities reports in Japan is currently being considered
under the guidance of the SSBJ.* Rather than taking a passive stance to such change, such as responding to legal amendments as they are enacted, we see change as a valuable opportunity to further evolve our efforts. And rather than merely conforming to regulatory requirements, we will therefore develop and implement measures crafted specifically for SCREEN.
* SSBJ: Sustainability Standards Board of Japan
Our sustainability lies in our purpose
“Innovation for a Sustainable World” is the SCREEN Group’s corporate purpose. This means combining the strengths of our people and our technologies to provide unique solutions to diverse issues facing society through our business and thus helping to build a sustainable world. Initiatives aimed at fulfilling our purpose also contribute to the Group’s sustainable growth and development. In this sense, I believe that the pursuit of the corporate purpose is the true essence of the SCREEN Group’s sustainability.
Our sustainability-related initiatives are both very wide-ranging and interconnected, so further reinforcement of collaboration across departments will be crucial.For example, under Sustainable Value 2026, we are implementing initiatives within an ESG framing, and one of the social initiatives is health and productivity management. We are implementing measures to promote physical and mental wellness at both the individual and workplace levels. As the head of sustainability strategy, going forward, I will act with even greater awareness of the links between these efforts and the HR Strategy Division and other departments so that the entire Group can work together on initiatives to improve employee engagement. By doing so, we will create the conditions for all employees to thrive as solution creators and work toward our purpose while supporting the continued growth of the SCREEN Group.
Encouraging all employees to take ownership
For our sustainability initiatives to bolster corporate value, above all, it is vital that all employees take ownership of sustainability.
To recognize employee initiatives that contribute to enhancing social value, until now, the SCREEN Group has used the Sustainable Value Award system. However, only certain organizations within the group have submitted entries for consideration.
To fill the remaining gap, beginning in the current fiscal year, we have launched the group-wide Sustainable Action Challenge initiative. The goal is for employees to think of solutions to social issues or innovations and ideas for enhancing the SCREEN Group’s social value and put them into action, so that every employee can grow into a solution creator. Going forward, we want all employees to steadily move forward with a strong awareness of their
role in promoting sustainability and a sense of ownership of efforts to increase corporate value.