{"id":2360,"date":"2026-08-28T18:01:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T10:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nipsea.group\/newsletter\/?p=2360"},"modified":"2026-08-28T18:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T10:24:08","slug":"our-fy2025-sustainability-report-beyond-coatings-beyond-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nipsea.group\/newsletter\/our-fy2025-sustainability-report-beyond-coatings-beyond-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Our FY2025 Sustainability Report: Beyond Coatings, Beyond Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are proud to announce the release of the NIPSEA Group Sustainability Report 2025, detailing our environmental, social, and governance progress across 52 reporting units in 28 geographical locations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As our Group CEO, Wee Siew Kim, shared in his foreword, &#8220;Sustainability is a discipline of asking better questions. Seven years of reporting has taught us that. The answers get sharper each time we look closer at our impact, our processes, our standards. FY2025 asked more of us than most years before it. We met that with rigour.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This seventh consecutive report offers a comprehensive look at how we are closing out our current five-year ESG target while laying the groundwork for broader value-chain decarbonisation.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2362\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2362\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2362\" src=\"https:\/\/nipsea.group\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Info01_REV2.0.webp\" alt=\"An aerial view of a large industrial factory featuring a massive rooftop solar panel installation.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"769\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nipsea.group\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Info01_REV2.0.webp 1024w, https:\/\/nipsea.group\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Info01_REV2.0-300x225.webp 300w, https:\/\/nipsea.group\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Info01_REV2.0-768x577.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2362\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meeting operational challenges by scaling up renewable energy directly.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-size: 14pt;\"><b>The Data Behind the Progress<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our performance this year reflects improvement across our operations, deeper supply-chain engagement, and a continued commitment to the people and communities we serve.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-size: 14pt;\"><b>Environmental Stewardship &amp; Climate Action<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The path to Net Zero is rarely a straight line as it is a complex balancing act between meeting growing market demands and radically rethinking how we operate. As our production output increased this year, managing the environmental impacts associated with our growth remained an important operational challenge.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2366\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2366\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2366\" src=\"https:\/\/nipsea.group\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Info02_REV2.0_1.webp\" alt=\"A person typing on a laptop with glowing digital dashboards displaying Net Zero and CO2 data metrics.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nipsea.group\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Info02_REV2.0_1.webp 1024w, https:\/\/nipsea.group\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Info02_REV2.0_1-300x225.webp 300w, https:\/\/nipsea.group\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Info02_REV2.0_1-768x576.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2366\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Disclosing Scope 3 emissions to track our value-chain footprint.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are meeting this challenge directly on the factory floor by scaling up renewable energy, improving water efficiency and waste management, and mapping our value-chain emissions to ensure that our environmental responsibility scales alongside our business.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Renewable Energy in Action:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> At Nippon Paint Singapore, a rooftop solar installation now generates approximately 1.65 million kWh annually, supplying around 50% of the site&#8217;s total electricity demand and avoiding 414 tonnes of CO\u2082e per year.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Resource Efficiency:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> We successfully improved our water intensity by 10.8% compared to FY2024, bringing it down to 433.5 litres per tonne. Additionally, 41.6% of all generated waste was diverted towards recovery operations.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>First-Time Scope 3 Disclosure:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> For the first time, we have disclosed our Scope 3 emissions, marking a crucial step in gaining greater visibility into our value-chain footprint. This initial reporting currently covers the China Group, Betek Group, and selected Malaysia entities.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;\"><b>Sustainable Innovation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We believe the most profound environmental impacts are decided long before a product ever reaches the shelf as they are engineered in the laboratory. By integrating stringent health, safety, and environmental criteria early in the development cycle through our Green Design Review, we are designing solutions that do not just perform better, but actively protect the planet. This means embedding sustainability considerations into our product development process rather than treating them as a secondary feature.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2364\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2364\" style=\"width: 1025px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2364\" src=\"https:\/\/nipsea.group\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Info03_REV2.0-1.webp\" alt=\"A female laboratory technician in safety goggles and a white coat reviewing colour swatches.\" width=\"1025\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nipsea.group\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Info03_REV2.0-1.webp 1025w, https:\/\/nipsea.group\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Info03_REV2.0-1-300x225.webp 300w, https:\/\/nipsea.group\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Info03_REV2.0-1-768x575.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2364\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Embedding sustainability considerations into our product development process early.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Commercial Impact:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> In FY2025, sustainably advantaged products accounted for 52.2% of our new product sales, generating US$ 951.13 million in revenue.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>R&amp;D Pipeline:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Empowered by our people across 56 R&amp;D technical centres globally, we filed 197 new patent applications and secured 83 newly granted patents this year.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Eliminating Harmful Substances:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> We are actively phasing out heavy metals and substances of concern across our products, with a commitment to eliminate lead, hexavalent chromium, cadmium, and mercury by 2030. As of the end of 2025, all newly developed products for the decorative segment sold via retail were formulated without added lead.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Breakthrough Solutions:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Key innovations include Nippon Paint China\u2019s USDA-certified plant-based paint series, which increased its plant-based content from 26% to 51%, and the low-temperature fast-curing ACECRON 130 automotive coating, which reduces curing temperature from 160\u00b0C to 130\u00b0C and enables a 20% reduction in energy consumption.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-size: 14pt;\"><b>People, Community, and Supply Chain<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A resilient business is only as strong as the human connections that sustain it from the vendors who supply our raw materials to the neighbourhoods where our employees live and work.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2361\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2361\" style=\"width: 1025px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2361\" src=\"https:\/\/nipsea.group\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Info04_REV2.0.webp\" alt=\"A young girl carefully painting a vibrant mural on a public wall alongside other students.\" width=\"1025\" height=\"769\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nipsea.group\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Info04_REV2.0.webp 1025w, https:\/\/nipsea.group\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Info04_REV2.0-300x225.webp 300w, https:\/\/nipsea.group\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Info04_REV2.0-768x576.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2361\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Investing in inclusive leadership and community empowerment downstream.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We recognise that our success is inextricably linked to the well-being of these communities. By embedding rigorous ethical standards upstream and investing heavily in inclusive leadership and community empowerment downstream, we are ensuring that our growth creates a ripple effect of mutual prosperity.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Community Impact:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> We invested over US$ 5.53 million across 80 CSR programmes globally, contributing 140,485 litres of paint and directly<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">impacting the lives of 116,518 beneficiaries.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Inclusive Workforce:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> We maintained our female representation in management and emerging leaders&#8217; categories at 28.4%. We are also scaling our Women Mentoring Programme to local markets to build a stronger pipeline of future leaders.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Safety First:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Guided by our &#8220;Dare to Care, Care to Know, Know to Prevent&#8221; mindset, we recorded a Recordable Case Rate (RCR) of 0.17, well below our target of 1.0. We continue to strengthen workplace safety practices, including implementing corrective and preventive measures in response to identified risks and incidents.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Responsible Sourcing:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> To strengthen supply chain resilience and reduce logistics-related emissions, 70% of our total purchases were sourced in-country. Furthermore, 87% of all new suppliers were screened against ESG risks during onboarding.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As we prepare to establish our next set of five-year ESG targets, we remain focused on measurable, continuous improvement. As Mr. Wee noted, &#8220;Progress rarely moves in a straight line. FY2025 reminded us of that more than once. But I&#8217;m confident that our habit of asking the harder question is what will carry us forward.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nipsea.group\/sustainability\/\"><b>[Read the full FY2025 Sustainability Report Here]<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are proud to announce the release of the NIPSEA Group Sustainability Report 2025, detailing our environmental, social, and governance progress across 52 reporting units in 28 geographical locations. 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