Dai Nippon Printing (7912) ESG update summary

Sustainability approach

• Sustainability Committee, chaired by the president, evaluates risks and opportunities, reviews materiality and feeds findings into management and business strategies.

• Material priorities include improving experiential value through real-digital integration, enabling everyone to participate, and building nature-positive value chains.

• FY2026–FY2028 cumulative investment: ¥35bn in human capital, ¥120bn in R&D and ¥10bn in environmental initiatives.

Human capital

• Human creativity was up 8.1% from FY2022; a three-year ¥35bn investment aims to strengthen creativity globally and support a virtuous cycle of value creation.

• FY2028 KPIs include 20% improvement in career-and-skill-map talent coverage, 10% improvement in the engagement survey “Challenge” score, and 70% career-autonomy practice and system utilization.

• Female managers target: 14% by FY2028 and 15% by FY2030; training workplace-application target: 60%.

• Global HR priorities include overseas human-capital monitoring, succession planning for local key positions and a global HR collaboration framework.

Digital and AI strategy

• Strategy aims to build an AI-native organization by embedding AI across operations, while using digital and AI capabilities to transform communication and manufacturing.

• Generative AI deployment target: 100% completion; high-frequency usage targets rise from 35% in 2026 to 45% in 2027 and at least 50% in 2028.

• AI initiatives include converting client documents and drawings into AI-compatible data and applying AI to manufacturing forecasts and production planning; individual-expertise-dependent work targeted for reduction of at least 50%.

• AI review service was used by 33 companies and reduced review operations by approximately 50%.