Productive activity that considers environment

Activities to Reduce Environmental Burdens at Factories and Business Offices

We are engaged in activities to reduce the amounts of materials and energy used in our business activities, to reduce chemical substances, waste, and air-polluting substances generated by our business activities, and to minimize our manufacturing costs.

We are also making comprehensive efforts to fully comply with laws and regulations and to prevent environmental risks from materializing.

PDF The New Mie Factory Building: A Green Example [124KB]

Promoting Green Process Activities in Manufacturing Processes

Our Green Process activities are intended to save energy and reduce the amounts of chemical substances used and waste produced in manufacturing processes. In a Green Process activity, we strive to reduce the environmental burden (waste, chemical substance emissions, energy usage) of a manufacturing process by optimizing (and reducing costs) of raw material inputs, chemical substance usage, energy usage, and other aspects, and/or switching to alternatives with lower environmental burdens.

In these activities, we first assign an environmental burden index (CG index*1), an originally developed method, as a yardstick for determining priorities and target values for specific materials, chemical substances, and energy used in the manufacturing process, and then apply the PDCA cycle (plan, do, check, act) to guide activities each quarter. These diverse efforts range from reviewing manufacturing technologies and particular processes to daily improvements from the workers themselves. In fiscal 2006, in addition to continuing previous initiatives, we promoted activities to deepen collaboration with our manufacturing innovation activities*2.

*1 CG index:
Original to the Fujitsu Group, this index describes the product of input volume used per product, the cost, and the environmental impact (on a scale from 1 to 10).
*2 Manufacturing innovation activities:
We have been engaged in Group-wide manufacturing innovation activities based on introducing and deploying the Toyota Production System since 2003.

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Green Facility Activities

To ensure stable factory operations and reductions in the environmental burden, we are making improvements to our infrastructure, pursuing thorough environmental compliance, seeking to eliminate environmental risk, and working to reduce consumption levels for energy, water, and chemicals.

Approach to Chemical Substances Management Policies

We have established “Prevention of environmental risks that could lead to environmental pollution or adverse health effects due to the use of harmful chemical substances” as our basic policy for chemical substances management, and we work to reduce the amount discharged and implement appropriate management at every business site.

In fiscal 2006, we strengthened the functions of an existing chemical substances management system and increased the efficiency of our chemical substances registration and management operations.

Fiscal 2006 Performance

In the Stage IV Environmental Protection Program, we established the goal of reducing by fiscal 2006 the amount of chemical substances discharged from our factories by 15% compared to fiscal 2001, but we achieved that goal ahead of plan, in fiscal 2004.

In addition to strengthening the proper management of chemical substances that are subject to the PRTR Law and reviewing our manufacturing processes, in fiscal 2006 we implemented a variety of measures to reduce chemical discharge by our semiconductor factories, including installing organic solvent recovery equipment. As a result, the total amount of PRTR chemical substances discharged by the Fujitsu Group in fiscal 2006 fell to 47.3 tons, a 53% reduction from fiscal 2001 levels.

Reducing the Amount of Waste Generated

In working towards creating a recycling-minded society, we have adopted a basic 3R policy (reduce, reuse and recycle) and in aiming for an even higher level of 3R achievement, we encourage all our employees to separate waste materials into different categories for more effective recycling.

Fiscal 2006 Performance

In the Stage IV Environmental Protection Program, we set the goal of reducing the amount of waste generated by our business operations by 3% compared to fiscal 2003 levels by the end of fiscal 2006.

The total amount of waste generated by the Fujitsu Group came to 29,845 tons in fiscal 2006. This was a 41% reduction from fiscal 2003, achieving the goal of the Stage IV program. While assigning monetary values to both paper and inorganic sludge contributed to this achievement, business restructuring was also a large factor.

Still, if we compare our fiscal 2006 performance to that of the previous fiscal year, we see that there was a 3% increase due to increased production at our semiconductor plants.

Total elimination of ozone layer depletion substances

We have completely eliminated the use of substances that contribute to depletion of the ozone layer in our manufacturing operations(parts cleaners and solvents). We have also taken measures to ensure that no CFC coolants used in air-conditioning or refrigeration equipment leak into the atmosphere. When renovating such equipment, we take the opportunity to replace
the coolants with non-CFC alternatives.

Energy-Saving (Global Warming Prevention) Measures

Details on Our Global Warming Countermeasures