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 34% reduction from the base year in 2023.

In FY2023, the discharged volume amounted to 2,863t, an increase of about 178t from that of FY2022. This amounts to 1.68t / hundred million yen in terms of the intensity assessment, a decrease of 27.3 % from that of FY2022, which was 2.31t / hundred million yen. *3

*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