Promotion of Wellness

Employees who thrive in taking on challenges;
organizations and groups that are connected by ties

At its core, the promotion of wellness focuses on enabling each coworker in the Kaneka Group to work with energy and enthusiasm.

Promotion System

The Engine of Sustainability Management will lead a company-wide task force.

Goals of Our Vision for Health

Measures for Maintaining and Promoting Health

Wellness Promotion System

Sports × Kizuna Challenge

With the theme of forming ties through sports, we provide opportunities to take on challenges toward big goals.

Training Plan

The participants who gathered had a wide range of goals from improving their health by addressing a lack of exercise to completing a full marathon. They enjoyed socializing while working up a sweat under the guidance of a professional coach.

The Hokkaido Marathon

Kaneka sponsored this event as a Premier Partner. Around 100 runners from the Kaneka Group took part, while many other employees turned out to cheer them on.

Run, Run, Run. Kaneka

Aimed at strengthening ties throughout the Group, this is the largest sporting event in Kaneka. A record number of around 3,500 people gathered at the Nagai Stadium for the event in 2023. For the first time in four years, we welcomed visitors from our overseas Group companies (242 people from 14 countries). The program included a group Ekiden and other activities, and a great time was had by all.

A Casual Approach to Health Promotion

We provide opportunities for all employees to engage in health promotion in a casual way.

Walking Project

Walking Challenge 30

Ahead of the day, each participant set a goal for the Ekiden event with the aim of improving their physical strength and health. (Participants: 720)
On the day of the event, participants walked 3.3 km (about 40 minutes) along the same course as the Ekiden runners. (Participants: 128)

Work Culture Transformation

Kaneka’s goal in work culture transformation is to enable smart work. We foster an environment and culture where employees can refine their imagination, creativity, and intuition, to work more efficiently and productively.

Creating a Workplace that Fosters Creativity and Enhances Efficiency

At our head offices in Tokyo and Osaka, we have switched to a free address system. By encouraging people to gather and move around, we aim to provide a workspace where communication that had become fragmented can be restored. We plan to roll out this system to other locations such as office buildings at our manufacturing sites so that we can improve the work environment.

Shifting to Creative Work through the Use of Digital

By using AI and data, we will not only enhance operational efficiency and digitalization, but also create new value and transform our corporate culture.
As well as developing a digital infrastructure, we will foster a digital usage culture. In fields other than manufacturing and research and development, such as sales, marketing, and logistics, we will work to promote work culture transformation.

We are promoting automation through the use of real-time data and AI in planning systems to optimize the entire value chain.
We are also developing a data platform to support self-service digital transformation in each division.

Future Image of the Value Chain