CFCL confirms the following points when we procures necessary products and services from external partners. In case they are not clarified by the time of procurement, implementation, the reasons behind shall be clearly noted and the roadmap towards to the clarification/achievement shall be described with short-, mid-, and long-term deadlines, and progress shall be tracked and traced and shared with those partners and CFCL.

1. Is it certified by any authorized organization from the view points of benefit impact to environment?
2. Is there any quantified numeric indicators to show its performance to provide benefit impact to environment?
3. Is it certified by any authorized organization from the view points of benefit impact to social problem?
4. Is there any quantified numeric indicators to show its performance to provide benefit impact to social problem?
5. Does it demonstrate of moral and ethical management practices?
6. Is it manufactured in Japan?
7. Refer to “SDGs performance guideline”.

Framework for
“Coexisting with local community”,
”Producing & Consuming local”,
“Transparency of the Supply Chain”

In establishing the above-mentioned “core concept”, we adhere the following practice with the aim of maintaining and improving the benefits provided to our suppliers and their growth as an integral part of our own growth.

“50% or more” of all the costs (*) borne by us in producing and selling our “core products” shall be the cost of “goods supplied” and/or “services provided” from suppliers that fall under either 1 and/or 2 described below.

(*) “50% or more” excludes salaries on payroll, office rent, utilities, taxes.

1. The supplier is a local independent company (**) geographically operating approximately within 80km of our main base facility of activity.

2. The supplier is a local independent company (**) geographically operating approximately within 80km from the location where our “core products” are used.

(**) Company that is capitally independent of foreign companies