Daicel Corporation (Head Office: Kita-ku, Osaka; President: Yoshimi Ogawa) has received a “Gold” medal for the first time in the 2025 Sustainability Rating by EcoVadis (Head Office: France).

EcoVadis is an international corporate sustainability rating organization founded in 2007 to promote sustainability in supply chains worldwide. EcoVadis assesses sustainability performance of more than 150,000 companies in 250 types of industries in 185 countries around the world by four themes: environment, labor and human rights, ethics, and sustainable procurement. The “Gold” medals are awarded to the top 5% of companies assessed by EcoVadis in the worldwide. The EcoVadis rating results are referred to as one of the most important criteria in the selection of suppliers by many global companies.

Daicel Group will make continuous efforts to meet expectations of our stakeholders with sincerity, tireless effort, and self- transformation, based on safety, quality, and compliance as the most important foundation in our Sustainable Management Policy for realizing a sustainable society.

Details of the Daicel Group's sustainability initiatives: https://www.daicel.com/en/sustainability/

EcoVadis: https://ecovadis.com/