Recognition for Taiheiyo Cement Corp's CSR Report 2015

Taiheiyo Cement Corporation’s CSR Report 2015, published last September, has been awarded the “Excellence prize for special recognition” in the environmental reparation section of the 19th Environmental Communication Awards, sponsored by Japan’s Ministry of the Environment and the Global Environmental Forum.

Established in 1997, the Environmental Communication Awards promote efforts in corporate environmental management and environmental communication, and aim to raise the quality of information disclosure concerning environmental issues by acknowledging excellence in environmental reporting.

Taiheiyo Cement received the award in recognition of the description of its processes, along with the results and reviews which are in accordance wuth GRI G4 Guidelines. The setting of a new section, the 'CSR dashboard', has proved effective in providing an outline of business operations as well as an integrated summary of the past and current trends in both financial and non-financial performance and the group’s medium-to-long-term objectives.

The award has encouraged Taiheiyo Cement to continue enhancing CSR reports and to reinforce its initiatives as it strives to create a recycling-based society, the company said in a statement.