Environmental load from business activities

We constantly gather and analyze data on environmental load from our business activities, including product development, manufacturing, and services, and vigorously pursue its reduction.

Environmental load from domestic and overseas plants

Environmental load from the entire supply chain

Since fiscal 2015, we have estimated and calculated CO₂ emissions from our entire supply chain in accordance with the guidelines of the Ministry of the Environment (※1). (※2)

(※1)Basic guidelines regarding the calculation of greenhouse effect gas emissions from the entire supply chain
(※2)Out of the 15 categories, categories 8, 10, 13, 14, and 15 are not applicable to our line of business.

Effective use of resources

We aim to reduce the waste discharged from domestic factories down to a final disposal volume of 1% or less and at the same time, in the 2nd environment action, we target 32% reduction from the base year in 2022.

In FY2022, the discharged volume amounted to 2,863t, an increase of about 60t from that of FY2021, due to the production increase after the recovery from the COVID19 pandemic. This amounts to 2.31t / hundred million yen in terms of the intensity assessment, a decrease of 11.2 % from that of FY2021, which was 2.60t / hundred million yen. *3

The waste generated as a result of the factory storage area rectification activities amounted to 479t and the in-house management value was calculated by subtracting this portion.

*3 Calculation of the 2nd environmental action plan, discharge volume, and intensity assessment have been performed based on the domestic data only.

Volumes of waste discharged, intensity performance records, and targets