Through its business activities, the Group is working to reduce GHG
(greenhouse gas) emissions, which is an important issue of global scale. In
response to market and customer demands for environmental friendliness, we
will integrate the design, procurement, and manufacturing processes for our
products and services to provide added value, such as energy savings. In
addition, to reduce GHG emissions in Scope 1 and 2, we will pursue efficient
energy use by harnessing the creativity and ingenuity of all our employees.
｜Environmental policies
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We will evaluate the environmental impact of all our business activities and
the products we provide to our customers at during production, use, and
disposal, and strive to save resources and energy, reduce waste, and prevent
pollution.
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We will establish and maintain a PDCA cycle by setting environmental
objectives and targets for these initiatives.
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In addition to complying with environmental laws and regulations,
ordinances, industry codes of conduct, and agreements with local
communities, we will establish and maintain independent management standards
wherever possible.
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We will establish an environmental management system in which all employees
participate, using audits and reviews to make improvements on an ongoing
basis.
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We will provide education to all employees to improve their awareness of the
environment and the environmental management system, as well as asking our
affiliates and partner companies for their understanding and cooperation.
- These environmental policies shall be publicly disclosed.
Environmental policies in each district
Our Nasu, Yaita, and Sano plants have drawn up their own environmental
policies based on the company- wide policies, taking into account the
characteristics of the manufacturing they perform and consideration for
the surrounding environment. In order to put our basic philosophy into
practice, each district has formulated its own environmental policies and
is working actively to acquire various certifications, including ISO
14001.
ISO 14001 compliance status
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Location
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Nasu Plant |
Yaita Plant |
Sano Plant |
Tanuma Plant |
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Date acquired
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December 2005 |
January 2007 |
April 2007 |
November 2006 |
｜Environmental management structure
The Environment Committee is in charge of company-wide environmental policy,
and the Environmental Management Subcommittee has been established beneath it.
The head of the Human Resources & General Affairs Department chairs both
committees, and the managers of the Nasu, Yaita, and Sano plants serve as
committee members.
｜Climate Change Initiatives
The TOKYO KEIKI Group is working to reduce GHG emissions and promote resource
and energy conservation to minimize the impact of our business on climate
change. At the same time, we are taking steps to mitigate the impact of future
climate change on the Group’s businesses.
Initiatives on TCFD recommendations
We announced our endorsement of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial
Disclosures (TCFD) recommendations in August 2022. By using the TCFD
framework to comprehensively assess risks and opportunities related to
climate change, we will enhance the resilience of our strategies. In
addition, we will set clear indicators and targets for each initiative and
enhance our disclosure of events that have a material impact on our business
activities, providing climate change-related financial information and more.
(1) Governance
To promote sustainability management, our Group established the
Sustainability Promotion Office and the Sustainability Committee in June
2021. At the center of our Group, the Sustainability Promotion Office plans
and promotes measures involving sustainability management. The
Sustainability Committee is chaired by the Representative Director,
President & CEO and selects members from Internal Directors and
Executive Officers. It functions as a meeting body that discusses and shares
sustainability management-related policies and measures, and executes
decisions without delay across the Group. It also makes proposals on key
measures and issues progress reports to the Management Conference and the
Board of Directors.
The Sustainability Committee met nine times in fiscal
2022, planning and formulating important measures such as the determination
of our sustainability policy and identification of materialities. The
proposals were then sent to the Management Conference and Board of Directors
for their deliberation before being adopted by the Group.
(2) Strategy
(2)-1. Scenario analysis based on TCFD recommendations
The TOKYO KEIKI Group recognizes climate change as a critical issue in the
sustainability management of the Group. For that reason, we created our own
scenarios based on the TCFD recommendations and referring to the 2°C and
4°C warming scenarios in the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report. Using
these scenarios, we evaluated the impact of a warmer climate in 2030, the
target year for achieving our mid- to long-term strategy. The table below
lays out our view of each scenario.
(2)-2. Assessment of risks and opportunities based on scenario analysis
Based on the scenarios we created, we identified events that could affect
TOKYO KEIKI Group business activities and measures to deal with them. We are
presently reviewing specific initiatives and plan to decide on them as part
of our materiality initiatives in conjunction with the next medium-term
business plan. We will announce these when they are decided. The table below
shows the events that we identified and countermeasures that are conceivable
at this time.
(3) Risk management
The TOKYO KEIKI Group manages risks in keeping with our risk management
system.* Following our Risk Management Rules, we classify risks as major
management risks or other risks and manage them accordingly. Risks that relate
to sustainability are written up for the Sustainability Committee’s
consideration by members of the Sustainability Promotion Office or
Sustainability Committee. The Sustainability Committee promptly discusses the
magnitude of the risks and how to deal with them. Its resolutions go to the
Management Conference and Board of Directors for deliberation and final
approval.
(4) Indicators and targets
The Group set a target of reducing GHG emissions within the Group by 37%
in fiscal 2030 compared to fiscal 2013. We are conducting activities to
achieve this. In fiscal 2022, in addition to planned capital investments
for energy conservation that we were already making, we switched part of
our electricity purchases to green power midway through the fiscal year.
These efforts caused fiscal 2022 emissions to decline to 9,077 t-CO2, a
reduction of 9.4% from the previous fiscal year.
In September 2023, our
Vietnamese subsidiary TOKYO KEIKI PRECISION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. (TPT)
also began a PPA (power purchase agreement for solar power). This will
further accelerate GHG emissions reductions. The trends in Scope 1 and 2
emissions reductions are shown in the figure on the right.
Initiatives to use renewable energy
TPT entered into a PPA in March 2022. Construction was subsequently
delayed due to circumstances in Vietnam, but the supply of electricity
began in September 2023. Thanks to this arrangement, solar power can
provide about 30% of the electricity used by TPT, which could reduce GHG
emissions by an estimated 400 t-CO2 yearly.
TOKYO KEIKI has also decided
to install solar power generation equipment at our Nasu Plant as part of
our own facilities. Although the amount of power generated is small, we
determined that the Nasu Plant could use the generated electricity without
waste since it has a clean room that operates year-round. Our aim is to
begin operation of the solar power equipment in fiscal 2023.
Solar panels on factory roof (TPT)
Energy saving initiatives at Headquarters building
Subsidiary TOKYO KEIKI TECHNOPORT INC. (TCN), which manages the TOKYO KEIKI
headquarters building, sets annual targets for reducing energy consumption
and manages progress on those targets. Buildings constructed in recent years
commonly have individual air-conditioning systems to save energy. By
contrast, the headquarters building, completed in 1988, has an atrium at its
center, which makes energy conservation difficult.
To meet the challenge,
TCN developed and implemented detailed daily plans for energy conservation.
In fiscal 2022, despite many extremely hot days that summer, energy
consumption fell 6.4% compared to fiscal 2020. In addition, consumption of
city gas, which is also used for heating in winter, decreased by a very
significant 25.8%. And with energy prices so high, it is even more important
to reduce consumption. Our intent is to increase the number of energy-saving
actions that individual Headquarters workers can take.
❙ Initiatives for Environmental Management
In the manufacturing industry, it is our social responsibility to try to
minimize our impact on the environment when we choose materials and use energy
to make our products. By fulfilling this responsibility while engaging in
business activities, we will contribute to the realization of a sustainable
society.
｜Initiatives to reduce waste
The TOKYO KEIKI Group aims to reduce the environmental impact of various types
of waste generated when manufacturing our products. Our Group-wide efforts to
reduce such waste are based on the 3Rs concept.
Waste is disposed of appropriately in accordance with laws and government
ordinances, as well as the regulations of the municipalities where our
factories and plants are located.
・Reuse
We are now reusing some of our used products and parts (including
electronic parts) with the approval of our customers.
・Reduce
The use of equipment to reclaim wash oil and the evaporation and drying of
wastewater from glass processing are helping to reduce the amount of
wastewater and waste oil we produce. In fiscal 2022, the Sano Plant
produced less waste oil, but other types of waste remained at about the
fiscal 2021 level, for a total of 259 tons of waste.
・Recycle
We hire contractors to take our scrap metal, waste oil, and waste paper,
which are valuable recyclable materials, and accordingly thoroughly
separate our waste. The breakdown for these valuable recyclable materials
for fiscal 2022 was 403t of scrap metal, 17t of waste oil, and 51t of
waste paper.
The Sano Plant alone accounts for about two-thirds of the company’s
overall waste output, and roughly 60% of that is water-soluble cutting
fluid, wash oil, and other types of waste oil. To reduce the amount of
these wastes, we installed hydrocarbon-based wash oil recycling equipment
in fiscal 2020. The equipment separates out about 10% of the oil dissolved
in the wash oil. The remaining 90% of the wash oil can be used as new,
which reduces waste and uses resources more effectively.
In fiscal 2022,
the equipment recycled 6,881 liters of oil. Going forward, we will
continue to recycle waste oil to reduce our waste output.
｜Measures for proper management of chemicals
Some chemical substances have harmful effects on the environment and human
body. As such, it is companies’ social responsibility to manage them
properly and to take the environment and occupational safety into account. We
are working to cut our emissions of chemicals by setting voluntary reduction
targets.
Each of our factories is actively switching to alternative materials to
hazardous chemicals.
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Cleaning agents for hydraulic products
Switched from dichloromethane to hydrocarbon-based
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Thinners
Switched to alternatives free from toluene and xylene
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Cutting fluid
Switched to alternatives free from chlorine
In the past, we used dichloromethane to remove oil from the surface of
hydraulic products produced at the Sano Plant prior to the coating
process. Dichloromethane, however, is a highly toxic chemical substance.
We made the decision to switch to a less toxic hydrocarbon-based cleaning
agent and designed and built our own dedicated cleaning equipment. The
equipment started operating in January 2021. The amount of dichloromethane
used was 495 kg in fiscal 2021 and 743 kg in fiscal 2022. These represent
a significant reduction in use of over 90% compared to fiscal 2020, and a
reduction in environmental and human health impact.
Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR) is a system to determine
the amount of hazardous Class 1-designated chemical substances discharged
from factories and report the results to the national government. The
government then compiles and publishes the data.
Reducing dichloromethane
emissions at the Sano Plant has been a challenge for a long time. However,
we have significantly reduced emissions by switching to a
hydrocarbon-based cleaning agent and recycling it. Since fiscal 2021, we
have no longer needed to submit reports to the government. Likewise, we
have not needed to report on toluene emissions since 2020. However, we
will continue to monitor emissions of both substances.
PRTR emissions: Sano Plant *Emissions only (excluding
transfers)
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FY
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Dichloromethane (kg)
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Toluene (kg)
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| 2018 |
18,400 |
1,330 |
| 2019 |
14,000 |
1,100 |
| 2020 |
11,000 |
986 |
| 2021 |
495 |
989 |
| 2022 |
743 |
927 |
PRTR emissions: Nasu Plant *Emissions only (excluding
transfers)
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FY
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Xylene (kg)
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1,2,4-Trimethylbenzene (kg)
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| 2018 |
66 |
17 |
| 2019 |
51 |
12 |
| 2020 |
50 |
12 |
| 2021 |
49 |
13 |
| 2022 |
13 |
11 |
｜Initiatives to protect biodiversity
Another critical social responsibility for our Headquarters, plants, business
locations, and other sites as we continue our business is to reduce the impact
on the surrounding environment and work to conserve it. The Group is committed
to protecting the environment site by site.
Technoport Kamata, the location of TOKYO KEIKI’s Headquarters, is an
office building block that was built as a redevelopment of the site of our
former headquarters and plant. Two-thirds of the vast grounds were turned
into a tranquil green space environment, becoming a conspicuous green
oasis in Kamata, a district with little verdure. The area around our
Headquarters, in particular, is surrounded by a variety of trees, and Ota
Ward has designated the more than 2,000-m2 green space around the
Headquarters building as a “Protected Forest.”
Ota Ward Protected Forest