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Environmental Policy

Being aware of the crisis of global environment, KOGANEI CORPORATION will conduct activities to make the corporate management consistent with environmental improvement. Through furnishing impressive products and services to customers and societies, KOGANEI will win public confidence and fulfill corporate responsibility for the realization of sustainable society toward the future.
In order to accomplish the above objective, KOGANEI carries out the following policy;

1.	Provides the products with environmental quality considering all aspects from the selection of materials to the disposal of waste, and is prepared to cope with the changes of customers and societies.

2.	Systematically carries forward 3R activities for the reduced usage, re-use and recycle of the global resources.

3.	Tackles with the beneficial environmental activities to be useful for environmental improvement.

4.	Periodically executes the education and training specified from the environmental aspects, and makes efforts for protection against pollution.

This policy should be known to the outside and inside of KOGANEI, and all members of KOGANEI as well as affiliated companies will observe national and international regulations and promises, and will continue to promote environmental improvement along with daily operations.

April 1st, 2006
KOGANEI CORPORATION

Environmental Conservation Activities

In year 2000, Koganei acquired ISO 14001 certification (the international standard for environmental management systems) for Tokyo and Komagane plants.
Koganei expanded scope of the certification and acquired the certification for the head office in 2004. The head office was moved, and Tokyo plant was merged into the head office in 2009.
According to requirements of ISO 14001:2004, Koganei identified environmental aspects, made an implementation plan and is striving to improve the environment.

Base Year: Fiscal year 1999
Benchmark: Monthly Average results from January to December of the previous year.
Planning Method: Annual rolling plan for the coming year in detail and for next three years based on numerical targets.

Summary of Environmental Activities in Fiscal Year 2009

Koganei responds to a survey conducted by a customer about contained substances that are restricted by international regulations of environment related substances.
Koganei designated June as “Environment Month” and engaged in environmental activities such as a cleanup event of Tenryu River, an eco-friendly commute, a cleanup campaign around the plants, environmental education and training for employees, an environment poster campaign, and environmental promotion with monthly newspapers, etc.
With Energy Saving Act being revised, Koganei started measuring energy consumption at sales offices in addition to the head office and Komagane plant.
Koganei ensured its legal compliance through its internal audit and found no legal violations though it corrected one problem according to its internal environmental standard.

Fiscal Year 2010 Review

We achieve our emissions controls accounting for sales fluctuation; these controls could not be accomplished by improving controls alone. We will aim to further improve controls and reduce emissions.
We have assessed the life cycle of iB Series 2 models from cradle to grave. As a result, we require our own evaluation standards, and have started writing them.
To reduce CO2, we continue to reduce our gas usage through proactive use of teleconferencing. With this practice now established, we shall continue working to reduce our carbon footprint.
Environmental education has made us conscious of the relation between business and the environment and helped us prevent environmental pollution. There have been schedule changes due to the earthquake, however, so some scheduled actions have not yet been acted upon.
While servicing air leaks, cleaning air conditioning filters, running efficient air conditioning and performing other straightforward energy conservation activity, we have reduced power consumption by introducing energy saving air conditioning equipment for test runs.

Whole Company

Item	Objective	Unit	Target	Result	Reduction Rate	Achievement Rate	Assessment
1. Waste Reduction	Reduction of flammable waste	kg/month	829.3	802.3	-3.3%	-	O
2. Promotion of LCA	Use of LCA	-	iB Series life cycles assessed. We will now review the life cycle from square one and build new standards to make reductions in the stages where possible.				-
3. CO2 Reduction	Active use of video conferencing	times/month	34.0	40.2	－	118.2%	O
3. CO2 Reduction	CO2 equivalent of the above	CO2- kg/month	2,937.0	3,472.6	－	－	O
4. Education	Rise of awareness and prevention of pollution through environmental education	Times/year	31	29	－	93.5%	x

Head Office

Item	Objective	Unit	Target	Actual	Reduction Rate	Achievement Rate	Assessment
1. Consumption reduction	To reduce AC power consumption	Mwh/month	72.3	72.2	-0.1%	-	O

Komagane Plant

Item	Objective	Unit	Target	Result	Reduction Rate	Achievement Rate	Assessment
1. Consumption Reduction	Reduction of gasoline consumption	l/month	1,365	1,147	-16.00%	-	O
2. Consumption Reduction	Reduction of electricity consumption	1,000kWh /month	337.9	345.4	2.20%	-	x
2. Consumption Reduction	Reduction of electricity consumption per production output	KWh/ JPY 1,000,000 /month	442.7	396.1	-10.50%	-	O

Primary Results of Activities

Continuously monitoring usage and emissions of environmentally harmful substances and changes in CO2 emissions