Interaction with Stakeholders

Basic Approach to Building Relationships with Our Stakeholders and Key Means of Communication

In the interests of sustainable corporate management, we believe that communicating with our stakeholders is crucial if we are to incorporate their expectations and requirements into our business strategies and activities. While creating more opportunities for communication, our aim is to reflect stakeholders’ perspectives in our management practices to a greater extent than ever before.

Basic Approach to Building Relationships with Our Stakeholders and Key Means of Communication

Relationships between Stakeholders and Businesses

Stakeholders

Relationship with businesses

Shareholders & Investors

Disclosing information as and when necessary, and engaging in dialogue regarding management

We aim to sustainably increase corporate value through mutual communication with shareholders and investors while fulfilling management transparency and accountability.

Customers

Engaging in business activities with an emphasis on improving customer satisfaction

We provide high-quality products and services that meet a wide range of customer needs and requirements.

Employees

Improving the value of individual talents

We aim to create a workplace where members of diverse backgrounds can coexist and be accepted by each other, maximize their respective capabilities while making the most of each other, and feel safe and secure as they work, experiencing their own growth and self-realization.

Local Communities

Building trusting relationships & contributing to development

We actively engage in interaction and dialogue with local communities and strive to achieve appropriate mutual recognition and understanding with regards to our business activities.

Business Partners
(Suppliers)

Engaging in fair, impartial trade & collaboration

We engage in fair and proper transactions with all business partners and work with our business partners to implement responsible procurement of raw materials and minerals.

Industry/Economic Organizations

Collaboration to solve social issues

We engage in exchanges of opinions and collaborations with the Japan Mining Industry Association, Japan Geothermal Association, and KEIDANREN (Japan Business Federation), etc., in order to solve social issues.

Non-profit Organizations
(Educational/Research Institutions, NGOs & NPOs)

Non-profit Organizations
(Educational/Research Institutions, NGOs & NPOs)

We contribute to education support and human resource development through cooperation with educational and research institutions, NGOs and NPOs.

Government

Maintaining close, sound relations and assisting with policies

In addition to complying with related laws and regulations established by government agencies and local governments, we engage in businesses that contribute to the regional development in a collaborative manner.

Environment & Future Generations

Engaging in wide-ranging dialogue & collaboration in order to protect the environment

In order to contribute to solving environmental problems, we build networks with various stakeholders, exchange opinions, and promote collaboration.

Responding to the Expectations and Needs of Stakeholders

We respond to issues highlighted and suggestions made by our stakeholders so that we can improve the standard of our sustainable management. We have launched a number of initiatives in response to key comments and requests, including the following. For information on methods of communication with stakeholders when ascertaining details, please see “Interaction with Stakeholders”.

Key expectation and request

Group response

Continuing to expand and improve resource circulation measures

  • “Contributing to the creation of a recycling-oriented society” is stated in Our Commitment.
  • Optimization of material flow across the overall Group
  • Business expansion, research and development aimed at improving urban resource recycling

Responding to the risks and opportunities associated with climate change

  • Driving the reduction of GHG emissions to achieve carbon neutrality by the fiscal year ending March 2046
  • Developing materials, products and technologies that contribute to decarbonization
  • Developing and promoting the use of renewable energy (geothermal energy, geothermal heat, hydroelectric energy, solar energy, etc.)
  • Pushing forward with demonstration testing and technology development related to CO2 capture and utilization
  • Performing scenario analyses based on the TCFD recommendations
  • Calculation of our carbon footprint

Managing closed mines

  • Continuing management work, such as mine drainage treatment and maintenance of tailings dams, at closed mines (non-ferrous metal mines) owned by the Group in Japan (including the preservation and effects of some mines as cultural assets)
  • Systematically implementing facility upgrades and construction work for environmental measures (construction work to prevent mine pollution and hazards to prepare for increasingly severe natural disasters, tailings dam reinforcement work in preparation for a major earthquake, measures to deal with the source of pit and waste water, upgrading of obsolete equipment, and so on)
  • Digitalization of management tasks for closed mines
  • Cultivating the development of closed mine workers
  • Developing technologies related to the management of closed mines

Preserving biodiversity (company-owned forests, areas around mines)

  • Obtaining SGEC forest certification for company-owned forests and promoting sustainable forest management
  • Confirming that biodiversity has been factored into mines in which we invest, and carrying out preservation activities at business sites located adjacent to national parks

Respecting human rights throughout the supply chain

  • Rolling out multi-layered initiatives with the goal of ensuring the effectiveness of the Mitsubishi Materials Group's Human Rights Policy, Procurement Policy, etc. in the supply chain including the Group, such as awareness-raising activities, due diligence, and ensuring that corrective measures are taken
  • Sustainability Investment & Loan Standards and loan standard in the Mineral Resources Business, and engaging in dialogue with local communities where the Company has invested in mines where its interests are over and above a certain scale
  • Maintaining responsible mineral procurement certifications (gold, silver, tin, copper, lead and tungsten)

Quality control

  • Continued implementation of preventive measures regarding quality issues
  • Days to reflect on quality and prevent quality issues from being forgotten
  • Developing mechanisms that avoid producing non-standard goods through "Proactive quality management"

Creating safe, healthful working environments

  • Activities to raise awareness of SCQDE (prioritizing safety and health in every action)
  • Continuing the Zero Occupational Accident Project
  • Thorough efforts to make equipment safe (engineering measures) through risk assessments (RA)
  • Strengthening health and safety education
  • Raising employees’ awareness of health
  • Strengthening safety and health systems
  • Ensuring the safety of employees of operating support providers (partner companies)
  • Preventing fire, explosion, and other accidents

Talent development

  • Activating employee communication
  • Development and continual improvement of an education and training system
  • Developing next-generation business leaders

Promoting greater roles for diverse talents

  • Promoting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
  • Practicing health and productivity management

Strengthening information security

  • Improving and expanding the information infrastructure
  • Expanding effective measures to defend against attacks aimed at vulnerabilities that are already known by attackers
  • Reducing the risks of new threats, including targeted attacks
  • Monitoring vulnerability and threats by the security operations center (SOC), and promptly handling incidents by establishing a computer security incident response team (CSIRT)

The evolution of governance

  • Group governance enhancement (communication, compliance framework and awareness, allocation of resources)
  • Building a new risk management system that enhances effectiveness and certainty
  • Enhanced Board Performance, Responses based on the Corporate Governance Code

Dialogue with Shareholders

Our Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders offers an invaluable opportunity for direct communication between our management members and shareholders. We therefore strive to send out materials relevant to the meeting at the earliest possible date, while also providing the materials on our website well in advance of statutory deadlines, to give shareholders sufficient time to consider the matters to be presented and resolved at the meeting. In addition, we are striving to enhance the disclosure of information in materials for the General Meeting of Shareholders.
Besides permitting shareholders to exercise their voting rights in writing or online, we have introduced an electronic voting platform to facilitate voting by both domestic and international institutional investors. We use slides at the General Meeting of Shareholders to help ensure participants’ clear comprehension of the presented contents. We also publish shareholders’ voting results for every resolution on the Website, after the meeting. Further, to enhance convenience for our shareholders, we hold a hybrid virtual General Meeting of Shareholders, which is livestreamed online. A recording of the meeting is made available on the Company’s website for a limited period.

Distribution of Shareholders

Dialogue with Shareholders & Investors

We actively engage in constructive dialogue with shareholders and investors, led by the CEO and CFO, to achieve sustainable growth and enhance corporate value over the medium- to long-term, our Investor Relations Department facilitates the sharing of internal information and maintains a system delivering feedback and insights gained from these dialogues to the management team. For institutional investors, we hold quarterly earnings briefings focused on financial results and performance forecasts, and actively host IR events to deepen their understanding of our products and strategies. Through these activities, we strive to foster a better understanding of the Group and enrich our dialogue with stakeholders.

IR and SR Activities in FYE March 2025

The IR Department regularly reports the content of dialogues with analysts, shareholders, and investors to the CEO and CFO. As a part of its IR activities, the department provides feedback to the Strategic Management Committee and the Board of Directors regarding capital market evaluations and areas of interest on a quarterly basis. Furthermore, management and the IR Department collaborate to enhance IR activities—such as improving and expanding IR events and disclosure materials—by incorporating insights gained from these dialogues.
Key areas of interest among analysts and institutional investors for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2026, are as follows:

  • Background and internal discussions regarding the review and formulation of the Medium- term Management Strategy
  • Growth strategy centered on resource circulation business and associated competitive advantages
  • Progress of fundamental structural reforms and the path toward improved profitability
  • Shareholder return policy, including dividends and share buybacks
  • Perception of the external environment—considering geopolitical risks and market fluctuations—and trends in underlying earnings capacity

Dialogue Results (FYE March 2026)

Item

No.

Financial Results Briefing (quarterly)

4

Medium-term Management Strategy Progress Briefing

1

Medium-term Management Strategy Briefing

1

Business Strategy IR Meeting

1

Sustainability Meeting

1

CEO/CFO small meeting

4

Outside Director small meeting

2

Plant tour for institutional investors in Japan

1

Individual meetings with domestic institutional investors and analysts

217

Engagement with shareholders in Japan

14

Individual meetings with overseas institutional investors

9

Participation in overseas investment conference

1

Investment meetings for individual investors

2

Distribution of Economic Value to Stakeholders

Striving to Adequately Distribute Economic Value

As we continue to earn operating revenue and generate economic value added thanks to the involvement of our diverse range of stakeholders, we believe that it is important to fulfill our social responsibilities and adequately distribute that added value among our stakeholders.

Economic Value Added in FYE March 2026

Revenue for Mitsubishi Materials in the fiscal year ended 2026 came to ¥1,472.5 billion. That included proceeds from the sale of products and services, dividends and other forms of non-operating income, and extraordinary income. Operating costs, which consist primarily of payments to suppliers, totaled ¥1,387.4 billion.
After subtracting operating costs from our total revenue, the amount of added value generated through our business activities came to ¥85.1 billion.

Distribution of Added Value

Personnel costs, which include statutory welfare expenses and retirement benefit costs contributions and represent the portion of revenue distributed to our employees, came to \49.7 billion.
In the meantime, we distributed a total of \5.6 billion to financial institutions and other creditors, in the form of interest on borrowings. We distribute value to society and local communities through the government and through our own social contribution activities. We paid \6.9 billion to the government this year, as the combined total of corporate income tax plus other taxes and public charges liable as expenses. We also gave \0.5 billion back to the community in the form of social contribution activities, including donations, lending our facilities to the public, and providing employees’ services, in the three fields of the promotion of local environmental protection and conservation activities, supporting next-generation education and diversity and inclusion, and coexistence with local communities under our Community Contribution Activity Policy.
Cash dividends, which represent the value that we distribute to our shareholders (companies and individuals, in Japan and overseas), came to a total of \13.1 billion.
Retained earnings to cover investment and contingencies for the future meanwhile decreased \9.4 billion.

Economic Added Value

Category

Stakeholder

Amount (millions of yen)

Details/method of calculation

Revenues

Customers and suppliers

1,472,504

Net sales, non-operating income, extraordinary income

Payments

Suppliers

1,387,362

Operating costs (cost of sales and selling, general and administrative costs, minus deductions for personnel costs, tax and public charges, and donations)

Employees

49,683

Personnel costs (including statutory welfare expenses and retirement benefit expenses)

Creditors

5,599

Interest expense

Government

6,896

Taxes (corporate income tax, and other taxes and public charges liable as expenses)

General public

514

Donations, etc.*

Shareholders

13,084

Cash dividends paid

Retained earnings

9,365

Net income minus cash dividends paid

  • Amounts less than ¥0.1 billion are rounded.
  • Calculated based on the value of items such as donated goods, public lending of our facilities and the provision of employees’ services as well as cash donations, as specified by Nippon Keidanren.

Contributing to Local Communities as part of our Overseas Operations

Whenever we engage in business activities overseas, we make every effort to understand conditions in each country and the national identity of its people, placing an emphasis on engaging in activities as a member of the local community. In addition, we re-invest revenue earned from our overseas operations back into the local community wherever possible, in order to continue growing our business and contribute to the sustainable development of the local area.

Pension Contributions

Obligations relating to unfunded lump-sum severance payment plans and funded defined benefit pension plans totaled ¥23.2 billion and ¥31.7 billion respectively. ¥75.5 billion of this total was paid out in the form of pension assets to outside funds (coverage: 137.5%). In addition, ¥-1.2 billion was recorded as a prepaid pension costs, with the remaining amount of ¥-19.4 billion classed as unrecognized benefit obligations. We plan to amortize all unrecognized benefit obligations over the next ten years. Unrecognized retirement benefit liabilities are mainly posted as expenses based on the straight-line method for a 10-year period.

Financial Assistance from the Government

We received the amount of ¥0.1 billion in grants, subsidies and other financial assistance from the government. The government does not hold shares in Mitsubishi Materials or any of our Group companies.