Hankook Tire & Technology said on the 8th that it published the "2025/26 ESG report," which contains its sustainable management performance. This is the 17th year that Hankook Tire has published such a report.
In this report, Hankook Tire focused on its direction to respond to tightening global ESG regulations, including the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR).
Reflecting the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), the core is that a common ESG management framework was established for the three group companies—Hankook Tire & Technology, Hankook & Company, and Hanon Systems. It also said it newly introduced a groupwide integrated materiality assessment applying the double materiality principle under ESRS.
Hankook Tire also disclosed key environmental achievements it has pursued, including expanding sustainable raw materials and developing eco‑friendly products, building a global eco‑friendly production system, reducing supply‑chain greenhouse gases, and managing biodiversity.
In governance, it pushed to advance the board's operating system. It approved a mid‑ to long‑term plan to strengthen the board's independence, expertise, and diversity and introduced guidelines for outside directors. To improve transparency in determining director compensation, it set up a compensation committee, and through establishing a 2025–2027 midterm shareholder return policy and implementing an interim dividend in 2025, it enhanced shareholder value and management transparency.
Hankook Tire also continued its sustainable management performance. This year, the Jiaxing plant in China obtained ISCC PLUS certification, a global eco‑friendly material international certification scheme. It strengthened its global sustainable management capabilities, including earning the highest grade for a second straight year in the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) climate change response institutional sector.
Meanwhile, the "2025/26 ESG report" also includes major ESG activities and achievements such as human rights management and health and safety, supply‑chain ESG management, the spread of a culture of diversity and inclusion, and co‑prosperity activities with local communities.