Environmental Policies
Through its environment-friendly manufacturing, the NSG Group contributes to the realization of a healthier and more abundant society.
NSG Group's Environmental Policies*
Philosophy
With a deep awareness of the importance of the earth's environment, NSG Group will contribute to the realization of a healthier and more abundant society by carrying out its business activities in harmony with the natural environment.
Action Guidelines
- The Company will give sufficient consideration to the environmental impact of its business activities during all phases of operations including R&D, manufacturing, sales, distribution, product disposal, and recycling-and will carry out its corporate activities in harmony with the environment.
- The Company will strive to develop production technologies that minimize environmental impact and develop and promote the greater use of products that reduce the environmental burden.
- The Company, while strictly adhering to national and local environmental regulations, will establish self-management standards as it works to protect the environment.
- The Company will provide extensive environment-related education to raise environmental awareness among its employees and will progress with the implementation of environmental protection activities.
- The Company will make efforts to continually raise the level of its environmental-protection capabilities by establishing and effectively operating an environmental management system.
- The Company will endeavor to cooperate and coexist harmoniously with local communities.
The guidelines will be announced within the Company and externally.
Adopted December 24, 1997
(*) The NSG Group has adapted established NSG environment policies to address the expanded global perspective of the Group.
Considering environmental issues as a top management priority, the NSG Group formulated its environmental policies in 1997. Environmental targets based on medium term business plans of four years' duration are set in order to implement proactive and preventive environmental conservation activities.
The NSG Group significantly expanded the scale of its operations, not to mention the global scope of its environmental measures, with the acquisition of Pilkington plc in June 2006. During the initial phases of the acquisition, both NSG and Pilkington pushed ahead with environmental measures that were based on "environmental policies" across all regions and divisions. Since the launch of its global management system in April 2007, the Group has unified its brand under the NSG Group banner and systematically integrated the operations of both companies. Thus in the NSG Group, the review of systems, policies and environmental targets has proceeded in parallel to bring about the development of environmental measures from a global standpoint.
When reference is made to "in Japan" or "domestic," the environmental data supplied in this report covers all NSG Group business sites operations in Japan, along with Japanese affiliates that are co-located with a business site, and Nippon Muki Co., Ltd.'s Yuki Plant, in fiscal 2007. A partial report on Pilkington's activities is also included. In the body text, "ton" indicates "metric tonne."
