Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Transparency Statement
Chugoku Paints (UK) Ltd.
Introduction from Masaya Hata / Managing Director
We are committed to reviewing and, where necessary, improving our practices to combat slavery and human trafficking. This statement sets out what we propose to do in future.
Our business and its structure
Our business is organised into three principal business areas:
- 1. Manufacturing and sales of marine paints, industrial paints and container paints.
- 2. Management and contract work for coating.
- 3. Inspection of surface treatment and coating.
Chugoku Paints (UK) Ltd., is the UK sales and service division of its parent company Chugoku Paints B.V. in Netherlands. The parent company is wholly owned by Chugoku Marine Paints, Ltd. located at Tokyo Club Building, 2-6, Kasumigaseki 3-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 100-0013, Japan (hereinafter called “CMP“), who provides its products to the market worldwide. CMP Group has approximately 2,132 employees and 105 locations in the world.
For information on the Group’s business, group companies and activities, please visit the following
website: https://www.cmp-chugoku.com
CMP Group has an annual turnover in excess of £36m.
Our supply chains
Chugoku Paints (UK) Ltd. requests suppliers in its supply chain to take appropriate steps based on the relevant policies stated below. Additionally, we encourage our suppliers to apply such policies to their suppliers and sub-contractors so that it helps the mitigation of slavery or human trafficking risk in our whole supply chain.
Our policies on slavery and human trafficking
Our procedures include an Anti-Slavery Policy which reflects our commitment to acting ethically and with integrity in all our business relationships and to implementing and enforcing effective systems and controls to ensure slavery and human trafficking is not taking place anywhere in our supply chains.
Due diligence processes for slavery and human trafficking
We operate a zero-tolerance approach to Modern Slavery and we are committed to acting ethically in all our business dealings and relationships. We consider that the greatest risk of slavery or human trafficking could have been in our supply chain where operations and managerial oversight are out of our direct control.
We have in place systems to:
Supplier adherence to our values
To ensure those in our supply chain and contractors comply with our values we have in place a supply chain compliance programme. We have also commenced the process of actively seeking confirmation from our supply chain third parties (UK and overseas) that they comply with local labour laws and regulations. The system includes self-assessment questionnaires and contractual warranties to require suppliers to comply with our Anti-Slavery Policy. In the event that we are not reasonably satisfied with the responses to the questionnaire submitted by the suppliers, we may request the suppliers to explain the responses in detail and/or submit an improvement action plan.The management are responsible for compliance in their respective departments and for their supplier relationships.
Training
To ensure a level of understanding of the risks of modern slavery and human trafficking in our supply chains and our business, we provide training to our staff.
Our effectiveness in combating slavery and human trafficking
In the event that suppliers fail to provide assurance to cease or prevent slavery and human trafficking or other adverse human rights impacts, we will consider terminating our business relationships with those suppliers.
We annually review to ensure that there is no slavery or human trafficking in our supply chains Suppliers may be asked to complete an anti-slavery questionnaire in order to assist our assessment of the risks posed in each area of our business. Contractual provisions in our purchase agreements and service agreements require suppliers to warrant that no slavery is used anywhere in the supplier's business and that all necessary measures have been put into place to ensure that this remains the case.
This statement is made pursuant to section 54(1) of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and constitutes our slavery and human trafficking statement for the next financial year ending 31st December 2024.
Masaya Hata
Managing Director
Chugoku Paints (UK) Ltd.
