External Ratings and Recognitions

Yokogawa Electric Corporation has been selected to the Dow Jones Sustainability Asia Pacific Index (DJSI Asia Pacific) and to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Enlarged Index (DJSI World Enlarged).

The DJSI is a leading corporate social responsibility index developed jointly by Dow Jones of the United States and Sustainability Asset Management (SAM) Group, a Swiss research and rating company. The selection of a company to the DJSI is based on a wide ranging analysis of economic, environmental, and social criteria. In 2011, 600 major companies in the Asia Pacific were surveyed for the DJSI Asia Pacific, and of this total 156 companies were selected, including 79 Japanese companies. For the DJSI

Yokogawa Electric Corporation, as of January 2012, is one of 150 companies constituting the MS-SRI (Morningstar Socially Responsible Investment Index), which is an SRI stock index established by Morningstar (Japan).

Yokogawa Electric Corporation, in March 2012, was selected as a company leading in the areas of social responsibility, governance, environmental management and provision of business solutions to social issues, from among 2,000 companies including those listed in the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

Yokogawa Electric Corporation has received the 2011 "Global Customer Value Enhancement Award" from Frost & Sullivan, a leading global research firm.

• Press Release (April 13, 2011)

Yokogawa Electric Corporation, as of September 2011, was ranked 149^th among the 1,575 "Ideal Companies to Work for in 2011," such companies having been selected by Nikkei Inc., based on their personnel administration systems and utilization condition of those systems.

Katsushi Aoki, General Manager of Yokogawa Electric China (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd., was presented the 2011 "Jiangsu Friendship Award" by the Jiangsu Provincial People's Government of China. The "Friendship Award" is given each year to a foreign national or the top management of a foreign corporation that has contributed over many years to the development of science and technology, industry, education, etc., of Jiangsu Province in China. (September 2011)

Katsushi Aoki,General Manager of Yokogawa Electric China（Right in the photo）

Yokogawa Manufacturing's Kofu Factory received the "2011 Health, Labour and Welfare Minister's Award on Vocational Development" as an excellent business site in terms of skills certification. The Kofu Factory has sent skills certification committee members to the national skills certification programs and provided venues for practical skills tests over many years, making significant contributions to the promotion of skills certification systems in Japan. Yokogawa Manufacturing is actively working to train people, also by setting up an in-house Global Manufacturing (Monozukuri) Center to promote skills certifications for machining, electronic equipment manufacturing, etc.

Yokogawa Sichuan Instrument Co., Ltd. (headquartered in Chongqing) was awarded the Excellence Award in the Overseas Development category at the fourth "Monozukuri Nippon Grand Awards." Created by the Japanese government to carry over and develop the skills and expertise of manufacturing, the biannual "Monozukuri Nippon Grand Awards" recognize talented individuals, etc., engaged in the manufacturing field. Among others, the Overseas Development category honors an individual or group of individuals working at a Japanese company who contributed to the productivity improvement, market expansion, etc., of local Japanese companies by transplanting Japanese manufacturing/production processes, products/technologies developed in Japan, and the country's traditional technologies, in East Asian countries, etc. Chongqing Yokogawa Sichuan Instrument was recognized for its strong leadership in localization and manufacturing of high-quality products to gain the trust of customers, thereby helping Yokogawa obtain the largest share in China for differential pressure/pressure transmitters. (February 2012)

Yokogawa Manufacturing's Oume Factory received the Tokyo Labour Bureau Encouragement Award for actively promoting labor, safety and health activities and achieving/maintaining good safety and health standards. Through thoroughgoing safety and health activities daily, the Oume Factory has been recording zero unscheduled shutdowns and accidents since 2006. This award was given to three factories including the Oume Factory. (November 2011)

Yokogawa received the "2011 Sawayaka Prefectural Land/Building Award." This award recognizes construction projects ordered by the Hyogo Prefecture that have been executed with an excellent standard. Yokogawa was recognized for completing a high-quality project to update a other company's central monitoring & control system at the Inagawa Regional Waterworks Office of the Hyogo Prefecture by conducting a thorough assessment of the existing facilities and investigating proper specifications thoroughly. (December 2011)