Harmony with Nature
Medium-Term Action Plan for Environmental Preservation
Environmental Management
Alps Electric has set specific quantitative targets for reduction of greenhouse gas and waste emissions, chemical substance management, and other initiatives under its Sixth Medium-Term Action Plan for Environmental Preservation.
On the whole, good progress was made during fiscal 2011, the third year covered by the plan, toward attaining the targets.
Sixth Medium-Term Action Plan for Environmental Preservation
Management
Develop an appropriate organizational structure to achieve effective environmental management while fostering environmental awareness among all employees
| Area of Initiatives | FY2011 Results | FY2011 Self-evaluation |
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| Environmental management system | Strengthen collaboration and share goals with overseas production bases. | Shared action items with overseas bases |  |
| Actions on environmental risks | Maintain the current system for domestic business locations. | Updated environmental risk map data | |
| Recognize and reduce environmental risks of overseas business locations. | Prepared assessments for overseas bases |  |
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| Eco-efficiency | Examine and introduce an eco-efficiency indicator |
Continued investigation of eco-efficiency indicators Examined additional indicators measuring the environmental contribution of electronic components |
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| Environmental communication | 1) Periodical publication of environmental reports | 1) Published CSR Report online (September 2011) | |
| 2) Information distribution via the Internet | 2) Distributed information via our website | |
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| 3) Promote disclosure of environmental information for business locations | 3) Disclosed some environment-related information | |
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| Environmental education | 1) Promote organized environmental education | 1) Conducted educational programs for new employees and managers, and employees to be seconded overseas | |
| 2) Promote educational activities encouraging action in employee households | 2) Published educational information in the company newsletter, company magazine, intranet and other media. | |
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| 3) Examine and conduct global environmental education | 3) Surveyed and examined education content | |
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| Environmental accounting | Regularize environmental accounting. Expand accounting scope | Aggregated costs and benefits | |
Self evaluation 
:Achieved :Partly achieved :Unachieved
Environmental initiatives through our products
Reduce the environmental impact of products through environmentally conscious design and development
| Area of Initiatives | FY2011 Results | FY2011 Self-evaluation |
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| Design for the environment | 1) Promote LCA | 1) Prepared Japanese and English LCI data for push-button switches and posted it to the JEITA website. Prepared carbon footprint (CFP) data for push-button switches. |
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| 2) Examine environmental impact efficiency and trial measures | 2) Started examining methods for calculating the environmental contribution of electronic components (new assessment approach) and summarized standard approaches within the electronic components industry | |
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| Chemical substance management | 1) Establish a new management system for chemical substances | 1) Built a new chemical substance management system (G-AXIS) and officially launched it from December 2011 | |
| 2) Maintain non-use of banned substances | 2) To ensure compliance, revised the Alps Environmentally Hazardous Substance Control Standard to include chemical substances such as new additions to the REACH SVHC Candidate List | |
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| 3) Reduce environmentally hazardous substances | 3) Ensured knowledge of prohibited uses within the company and promoted use of alternatives in response to RoHS and ELV directive exemption changes | |
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| Green procurement | Propagate green procurement | Amended the Alps Green Procurement Standard and have informed bases | |
Self evaluation :Achieved :Partly achieved :Unachieved
Environmental initiatives in our plants and offices
Reduce the environmental impact of production processes and office operation
| Area of Initiatives | FY2011 Results | FY2011 Self-evaluation |
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| Prevention of global warming | 1) Reduce greenhouse gas emissions: Reduce average of greenhouse gas emissions during FY2008 to FY2012 (5 years) by 20% of FY1990 level (Japan) |
1) CO2 emissions: 44,522 tons. FY2008–11 average: 48,362 tons. 55.8% reduction (improvement) from base year (FY1990). | |
| 2) Reduce CO2 emissions: Reduce FY2012 CO2 emissions from energy consumption per unit of output by 5% of FY2007 level (Japan) |
2) CO2 emissions per unit of output: 46.8 tons / 100 million yen. 21.4% reduction (improvement) from base year (FY2007). 6.1% reduction (improvement) from previous year (FY2010). | |
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| 3) Reduce CO2 emissions: Reduce CO2 emissions, every year, from energy consumption by 1% of the previous fiscal year level (Japan) |
3) CO2 emissions: 1,265 tons. 2.59% reduction (improvement) from previous year (FY2010). | |
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| 4) Reduce energy consumption of overseas bases: Bases set individual FY2012 reduction targets for CO2 emissions coming from energy consumption (Global) |
4) Bases have set their targets | |
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| 5) Reduce greenhouse gas (excluding CO2) emissions: Contain greenhouse gas emissions (excluding CO2) to FY2007 level. (Japan) |
5) Greenhouse gas emissions (excluding CO2) were between 1500 and 2000 tons (CO2 equivalent) | |
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| Recycling | 1) Maintain and improve “zero-emissions” performance: Achieve a waste recycling rate of 98% in FY2012. (Japan) Bases set individual FY2012 recycling rate targets. (Global) |
1) (Japan) Recycling rate: 98.3%. 0.4% increase (improvement) from previous year (FY2010). | |
| (Global) Bases have set their targets | |
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| 2) Reduce total waste emissions: Reduce total waste per unit of FY2012 output by 3% of FY2007 level (Japan) |
2) Total waste emissions per unit of output: 4.32 tons / 100 million yen. 11.9% reduction (improvement) from base year (FY2007). 1.9% increase (deterioration) from previous year (FY2010). | |
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| 3) Promote an electronic manifest system: Promote use of an electronic manifest system (Japan) |
3) Proportion of material converted into electronic data: 83.4%. 22.6% increase (improvement) from previous year (FY2010). | |
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| 4) Reduce paper use: Reduce FY2012 paper use by 10% of FY2007 level. (Japan) Bases set individual FY2012 reduction targets. (Global) |
4) (Japan) Paper usage: 39.1 tons 52.4% reduction (improvement) from base year (FY2007). 3.8% reduction (improvement) from previous year (FY2010). | |
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| (Global) Bases have set their targets | |
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| 5) Reduce water use: Reduce FY2012 water use by 13% of FY2007 level (Japan) |
5) Water usage: 476,539 tons. 28.4% reduction (improvement) from base year (FY2007). No change from previous year (FY2010) | |
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| Chemical substance management and emission reductions | 1) Proper management of chemical substances: Reduce contamination risk by promoting appropriate management of chemical substances. |
1) Assessed emergency risks, installed equipment to prevent leakage, and conducted drills | |
| 2) Reduce VOC emissions: Reduce FY2010 VOC emissions by 30% of FY2000 level. (Japan) Bases set individual FY2012 VOC emission reduction targets. (Global) |
2) (Japan) VOC emissions: 75 tons (FY2010). 85.6% reduction (improvement) from base year (FY2000). 8.6% reduction (improvement) from previous year (FY2009). (Activity ceased as targets were attained in FY2010) | |
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| (Global) Bases have set their targets | |
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| 3) Reduce Class I Designated Chemical Substances of PRTR Law: Bases set individual FY2012 emission reduction targets for Class I Designated Chemical Substances of the PRTR Law (Japan and Global) |
3) (Japan and Global) Bases have set their targets | |
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| Green purchasing | 1) Promote green purchasing for office supplies | 1) Headquarters and bases used green purchasing for office supplies | |
| 2) Promote green purchasing for company fleet vehicles | 2) Purchased and leased eco-friendly vehicles | |
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| Logistics | Promote environmentally conscious logistics. | Improved transportation efficiency and reduced packaging waste | |
| Greening | Promote greening campaigns. | Bases carried out tree planting activities | |
| Biological diversity | Advance biodiversity awareness through “learning,” “notifying” and “acting” steps (Japan) | Definitions relating to biodiversity protection were added to environmentally friendly product regulations and product assessment guidelines | |
| Social contribution activities | Promote activities that contribute to the social well-being of local communities. | Bases conducted cleanup activities around their areas | |
Self evaluation :Achieved :Partly achieved :Unachieved
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