FY2022 Site Reports > Zeon Chemicals Yonezawa Co., Ltd.

Zeon Chemicals Yonezawa Co., Ltd.
Company Profile
Business Description
Manufacture and sale of perfumes and pharmaceutical and agrochemical intermediates,
manufacture and sale of RIM blended solutions
Established in 1996 as a producer of fine chemical products, Zeon Chemicals Yonezawa
began production of synthetic aroma chemicals in 1997 and reaction injection molding(RIM) compounds in 1998.

Zeon Chemicals Yonezawa Co., Ltd.
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No. of Employees
As of March 31, 2022: 34 (31 men, 3 women)
Hiring in FY2021: 2 (1 man, 1 woman)
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Perfumes madewith syntheticaroma

Company Policy (Executive Message)
Zeon Chemicals Yonezawa (ZCY) is the only Zeon Group production base in northern
Japan. As a production company which regards the maintenance and improvement of thesystems for ensuring stable, safe production as a key issue affecting our ability to fulfil ourresponsibilities, our annual policy for FY2022 has been to “maintain our record of zeroincidents and zero accidents, and achieve our targets for the first year of implementationof the new Medium-Term Business Plan, looking ahead to 2030.” This is intended toensure the realization of our Vision for 2030, as set forth in the new Medium-TermBusiness Plan. We regard the development of human resources with a basis in the mental
and physical health of our employees as essential for ZCY’s continual growth, andreflecting our ”Priority Challenges under the Medium-Term Business Plan,” have identified
the following key issues, with all employees working to address them.

President
Yoshiaki Aimura

1. Let’s increase safety levels in the workplace and employee awareness around health
2. Let’s develop human resources and transform our company with “What ZCY values”
3. Let’s contribute to the realization of our customer’s vision for 2030

Safety Initiatives
PolicyWith a commitment to the basics, create stable, safe, and comfortable workplaces.
Specific Initiatives
Increased sensory awareness through hands-on education
・Provide controlled combustion and explosion experience with alkyl aluminum (category
3 hazardous substance), which we use in manufacturing, in cooperation with the fire
department and a chemicals manufacturer, as a safe hazard experience activity.

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Strengthen awareness using experiential education
・We are introducing a system which enables employees to experience hazardous eventssafely and effectively, using virtual reality (VR) technology to recreate the senses ofhearing, vision and touch, and using this VR experience to provide awareness-raisinghazard experiences.

Environmental Impact Reductions
PolicyMaintain record of zero emissions, and conduct activities to reduce our environmental impact.
Specific Initiatives
1. Maintain record of zero emissions
・Recycle and reuse resources
・Practice thermal recycling
2. Reduce CO2 emissions
・We will reduce CO2 emissions through reducing electric power consumption and fuel shift
3. Environmental data
* “0” indicates less than 0.5 tons, and “0.0” indicates less than 0.05 tons

Zeon Chemicals Yonezawa Co., Ltd.

FY2017

No. of substances

FY2018FY2019FY2020

FY2021565

64Consumption (tons)

4,544

2,787

3,880

2,474

3,321

Emissions (tons)

1.5

1.0

1.4

0.5

0.0

232

284

215

329

269

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

1816

1416162,089

1,927

1,804

1,837

1,798

CO2 emissions (tons) Scope 1----880

CO2 emissions (tons) Scope 2-

--

-

918

CO2 emissions (tons) Scope 1+2--

--

1,798

876

864

792

807

782

2,001

1,800

1,758

1,787

1,764

Substances subject
to the PRTR Act

Industrial waste

Amount generated before
compacting (tons)
Amount sent to landfills(tons)

Water resource consumption (1,000 m3)(industrial water + groundwater + waterworks)

CO2 emissions (tons)
Standards on the promotion of energy-saving/global warmingcountermeasures

Energy consumption (crude oil equivalent, kL)
Electricity consumption (1,000 kWh)

* In conjunction with the increase in production volume, CO 2 emissions and energy consumption have increased since FY2017.

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Relationship with Employees
PolicyWe aim to cultivate human resources who set themselves ever more challenging goals, and implement education andtraining with a focus on day-to-day improvement activities. We have introduced an awards system to acknowledge
achievements in the daily work tasks of individual employees that have significantly contributed to the company or to theirfellow employees. In addition, from the current fiscal year, we have begun the “mutually respectful dialogues” initiative, foremployees to accurately convey their own opinions, while also paying careful attention to the opinions of those with whomthey are interacting.
Specific Initiatives
1. Invigoration of ZΣ cycle activities
The Zeon Group uses the name “ZΣ Activities” to refer to quality control activities. All members involved in these activities
work to take on each of the challenges at their workplaces, striving as a whole to implement actions for improvements. At
Zeon Chemicals Yonezawa, we hold annual results presentations of our ZΣ Activities, and the members of a representative
team are sent to attend the Group-wide presentation. Through these undertakings, we aim to strengthen employee
awareness of the need for ongoing improvements, and to enhance employee problem-solving capacities. We also actively
work to obtain QC skills qualifications, toward the acquisition of the fundamentals of quality improvement activities.
2. Naseba-naru Awards (in-house commendations)Naseba-naru Awards are given to employees who have demonstrated significant results, including implementing
improvements and creating systems, safety and 5S’s, and corporate culture reforms. The title of “Naseba-naru” is takenfrom a quote by Uesugi Yozan, the head of the Yonezawa domain during the mid-Edo Period, who is remembered forachieving financial and other reforms of the domain. He famously said, “If you put your mind to it, you can do it” (Nasebanaru in Japanese). 12 employees were awarded in FY2021, and 9 employees were awarded in the first half of FY2022, aspart of this program.

Relationship with the Local Community
We participate actively in activities that make a contribution to the local community, to fulfill society’s expectations.
Specific Initiatives
Participation in community events
While the Uesugi Snow Lantern Festival activities were cancelled this year, wewere able to take part in community cleanup activities and experiment classes forelementary school students. In addition, we participated in a career experience eventat local junior and senior high schools, using flasks and beakers for a distillation
experiment with herbs, as well as an activity to make perfumed soap. This allowed
participants to enjoy a simulated experience of working at a chemical plant. We also
successfully hosted many internships and plant tours.

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