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The Tamura Group is involved in activities to reduce CO2 emissions and conserve energy across its business operations, in order to help reduce global warming.
At the same time, the Group is pushing forward its drive to reduce substances with environmental impact to minimize their effects on the environment. |
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Reduction of CO2 Emissions |
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In order to reduce CO2 emission, the Tamura Group has worked to improve production efficiency, update to energy-saving equipment, replace fluorescent lamps with LED lighting, update to HID lamps from mercury vapor lamps, apply thermal barrier coatings to the roof, and place light shielding films over the windows.
In FY2010, we achieved our goal of reducing CO2 emission to sales, cutting down 8% compared to the previous year |
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Reduction of Substances with Environmental Load |
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 The Tamura Group has been working on the complete control of chemical substances and reduction of waste from production processes in order to minimize impact on the environment by the use of substances with environmental load.
In terms of reducing substances with environmental load, we achieved a 40% reduction compared to the FY2005 level through transition to substitutes and improvements in processes. |
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The Tamura Group takes the life cycle of a product into account in minimizing environmental load, contributing to the global environment through the development and manufacture of premier eco-design products. |
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Growth in Percentage Sales of Premier Eco-Design Products |
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The Tamura Group has traditionally certified products that contribute to reduction of environmental load as "eco-design products" (evaluated by the company's own assessment standards). We introduced hierarchical environmental assessment standards for products, and in October 2010, started applying these new standards to certify particularly superior products as "premier eco-design products."
We reviewed the environmental assessment standards for products with a focus on the contents described below to evaluate and certify products that, at the time of evaluation, possess the top-class green functionality in the industry as premier eco-design products. |
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- Energy and resource conservation and substitutes for substances with environmental load during product manufacturing processes
- Energy conservation during product use
- Recyclability and reusability after product disposal In addition, as the demand level of the market increases with time, we conduct review from time to time to determine whether a product could be kept certified as a premier eco-design product to always ensure that only those possessing cutting-edge eco-design are regarded as premier eco-design products. |
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The Tamura Group thoroughly complies with environmental regulations. In addition, we are working on prevention of accidents and risk minimization through education and drills by assuming accidents and emergency situations. |
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Portal Site for Information on Regulations Concerning Chemical Substances |
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 The Tamura Group supplies products globally, and therefore must comply with national laws and regulations concerning chemical substances in each country to which our products are supplied. To do so, we have to obtain the latest information on laws and regulations and investigate whether there are any regulations concerning chemical substances in products. In March 2011, we created a portal site for information on regulations concerning chemical substances on company intranet to improve the efficiency and certainty of business operations and information sharing |
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Efforts on Behalf of Biodiversity |
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In 2010, the year the United Nations declared to be the International Year of Biodiversity, the tenth meeting of the Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP10) took place in Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture.
In July 2010, the Tamura Group added the conservation of biodiversity to the Tamura Group Environmental Policy, and with the aim of raising biodiversity awareness at the employee level, embarked on activities to instill greater awareness of biodiversity through such opportunities as new employee training and Tamura Group EMS Committee meetings. |
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Compliance with Environmental Laws and Regulations |
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 We recognize that the strict observance of environmental laws and regulations is the basic tenet of business activities. In FY2010, we encountered no accidents or emergency situations that caused a serious impact on the environment. There were, however, complaints against compressor noise at Tamura Electronics (S.Z.), and consequently, noise control measures were carried out. |
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Emergency Drills |
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| Although we have thus far mainly conducted fire drills and evacuation drills by assuming fire breakout, we started conducting emergency drills by assuming other emergency situations, such as chemical substance leaks. Improvements confirmed through these drills will lead to review of procedures and equipment upgrade in our effort to minimize potential risks. |
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Environmental Education |
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 We believe that it is important for each employee to perform his/her job with a deep understanding and a strong sense of awareness in continuously improving the environmental load. We are therefore conducting a variety of environmental education programs. |
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