Environmental Initiatives

Environmental Initiatives

To attain a sustainable society that harmonizes with the global environment, Energywith works to reduce environmental impact through its business activities, products and services, and globally promotes solutions for environmental issues such as climate change.

Basic Policy on Environmental Management

Energywith regards environment as one of the most important management issues and promotes environmental management in cooperation with stakeholders under the Action Guidelines for Environmental Conservation. In order to realize a sustainable society in harmony with the global environment, the entire Group work together globally to reduce environmental impacts through business activities, products, and services, and to solve environmental issues such as climate change.

The Action Guidelines for Environmental Conservation

Purpose

In order to realize an environmentally harmonious and sustainable society through products and services, Energywith is committed to meeting its social responsibilities by promoting globally-applicable “MONOZUKURI” (designing, manufacturing or repairing of products), which is aimed at reducing environmental burdens of products throughout their entire life cycles, ensuring environmental conservation.

Action Guidelines

  1. Global environmental conservation is a critical challenge shared by all humans. Energywith is committed, therefore, to fulfilling its responsibilities by assisting in the realization of an environmentally harmonious and sustainable society as one of its management priorities.
  2. Energywith will make efforts to contribute to society by developing highly reliable technologies and production processes, while identifying needs considering concerns related to global environmental conservation and limited resources.
  3. Members of the board in charge of environmental conservation are responsible for facilitating appropriate environmental conservation activities. Departments responsible for environmental conservation should endeavor to promote and ensure environmental conservation activities, including improving environment-related rules and regulations and setting goals for environmental burden reduction. These departments should also confirm that their environmental conservation activities are conducted in a proper manner and ensure that these activities are maintained and improved.
  4. Energywith will promote globally applicable MONOZUKURI with the aim of reducing environmental burdens at every stage, including product research and development, design, production, distribution, sales, usage, and final disposal.
  5. Energywith will investigate and review the environmental impact caused in the course of its MONOZUKURI processes. Energywith will also introduce excellent technologies and materials useful to safeguard the environment, in other words, to reduce environmental burdens through energy and resource saving, chemical substance management, recycling, and other measures.
  6. Energywith‘s environmental conservation efforts are not only to be focused on observing international environmental regulations and those of national and local governments, but also on conserving the environment by implementing voluntary environmental standards when necessary.
  7. Regarding globally-applicable MONOZUKURI* activities, impact on the local environment and community are to be considered. In addition, measures that meet local communities’ requests should be implemented.
  8. Energywith will educate its employees on the observance of environment-related laws, raise their environmental awareness, and encourage their interest in society at large and broad-based environmental conservation activities.
  9. Energywith will evaluate potential environmental problems and prevent them from occurring. In the event that any environmental problem occurs, we will take appropriate measures to minimize the impact on the environment.
  10. Energywith will make efforts to disclose information on its environmental conservation activities to its relevant stakeholders. We will also actively communicate with these stakeholders so as to strengthen mutual understanding and forge cooperative relationships with them.

* MONOZUKURI literally means “manufacturing.” In this context, it means the entire process of creating value in products and services we produce.

Environmental Management Promotion Structure

At Energywith, the “Group Environment and CSR Conference” meets four times a year; the President chairs it which consists of the other Executive Officers, the directors of each business division and representatives from both domestic and international business sites and the Group companies. Discussion and policy decisions on overall Environment &CSR management take place, in addition to environmental burdens, business risks, and opportunities associated with environmental issues at the global level (climate change, circular economy, water-resource reduction, and conservation of ecosystems) that are incorporated into new policy decisions and initiatives.

Environmental Management Structure

Environmental Management Structure