DE&I (Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion)

For our company, DE&I (Diversity, Equity & Inclusion) is considered a critical issue alongside climate change, and we strongly recognize the need to prevent homogenization and rigidity, and to embrace diverse values and potential for growth, both in management and in our operational departments.

Aiming to create a workplace where employees with diverse backgrounds, including women, employees with foreign roots, and employees with disabilities, can work comfortably, we are promoting initiatives to reflect diverse voices, starting with increasing the percentage of female employees and developing female managers. Based on the past reality and reflection that "the number of women wishing to join the construction machinery industry is very low, resulting in a male-dominated company," we are promoting initiatives to expand the recruitment of women as an entry point, such as introducing labor-saving and automated equipment into the production site and improving production processes, in order to realize a factory that is easy for everyone to work in, safer and more efficient.

We intend to steadily work on human resource development so that women who join the company as new graduates or mid-career hires can be promoted to management positions in the future, and to correct the imbalance in the medium to long term. Furthermore, as part of our promotion of gender diversity on the Board of Directors, we elected female directors at the general shareholders' meetings held in May 2023 and May 2024, bringing the total number of directors to seven men and two women.In addition, given that overseas sales account for more than 95% of our total sales, we have decided to incorporate local perspectives into our management and expand local employment by setting the local ratio of managers in our overseas subsidiaries as an indicator.