OSAKA, JAPAN—SAKATA INX CORPORATION announced in December 2025 that its US subsidiary INX International Ink Co. has improved its sustainability rating from “Bronze” to “Silver” in the assessment conducted by EcoVadis as a U.S. subsidiary group.

EcoVadis, headquartered in Paris, France, conducts sustainability assessments of more than 150,000 companies in over 250 industries and over 185 countries through their global cloud-based platform. These sustainability assessments involve international experts who assign scores on a scale of 0 to 100 to measure companies’ quality of sustainability on the four themes of the environment, labor and human rights, ethics and sustainable material procurement, based on global sustainability standards such as the ten principles of the UN Global Compact, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), and ISO 26000.
 
The SAKATA INX Group seeks to strengthen ESG and sustainability initiatives that focus on global environment and local society, contributing to the realization of a sustainable community as a fair company that enjoys society’s trust when it comes to the environment, labor and human rights, ethics, and sustainable material procurement for diverse stakeholders.