Editorial Policy

Scope of This Report

The FDK Group began publishing its Environmental
Report for the term ending in March of 2001. Since ﬁscal
2006, the scope of the report has been expanded toinclude the social aspects of the group and published as
The FDK Group Social and Environmental Report. Thisis the third year of publication for our social and environmental report.
The purpose of this report is to summarize FDK Group
activities aimed at realizing a sustainable society. In thisissue we include a special feature article introducing
unique products we have developed that show what weare as a company.
We used visual formats such as illustrations, graphs andphotos as much as possible in this publication. The
environmental section of this report is designed to show
one key item of the FDK Group Environmental Action
Plan per page to clearly highlight our goals and theresults of our activities.
We intend to continue doing our best each year to clearly
convey our message through this publication. It is FDKGroup s sincere wish to establish two-way communication
with our readers.
In order to conserve paper, we invite readers who would
like to comment on this report to ﬁll out the online
questionnaire available at the FDK Group Website. We
look forward to hearing your opinions.

PeriodThis report encompasses activities and results for ﬁscal 2007
(from April 1, 2007 to March 31, 2008).
Some data pertaining to performance ﬁgures and activity
results until July 2008 are, however, included for the purposeof showing transitions.

Organizations included in the scope of this report

This report encompasses the entire FDK group. The
environmental section of the report pertains to FDK, its
seven domestic group companies, and twelve consolidatedoverseas sites (marked in bold print below).

Scope of the collected data

Performance data representing the prevention of global
warming, the reduction of waste and chemical emissions,business activities and environmental burdens pertain to
FDK plants and domestic group companies.
Sanyo Plant
A portion of the data pertaining to environmental burden atoverseas group company production sites is covered in theFukuoka Sales OfficeSite Report.

Okinawa Sales Center

Intended Readers
The intended readers of this publication are FDK Group
stakeholders, including customers, business partners,
investors, shareholders, regional community, governmentorganizations and employees.

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NANJING JINNING SANHUAN FDK CO., LTD.
SUZHOU FDK CO., LTD.
XIAMEN FDK CORPORATIONＦＤＫ(THAILAND)CO.,LTD.

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ＦＤＫ LANKA(PVT)LTD.
ＦＤＫ SINGAPORE PTE.LTD.
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Sapporo Sales Office

Editorial Policy/CONTENTS

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Message from the President

03

Company Proﬁle05

Feature Article
FDK s New Product Development

07

Sendai Sales Office
Headquarters Branch Office
Tokyo Metropolitan Area Sales Office

FDK MODULE SYSTEMTECHNOLOGY CORPORATION,Iwaki Plant

FDK ECOTEC CO., LTD.

Headquarters

Social Activities Report

Nagoya Sales Office
FUJIDENKA RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS CENTER CO., LTD.
FDK LIFETEC CORPORATIONFDK MECHATRONICS CO., LTD.
Kosai Plant
FDK ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
Lake Hamana

FDK ENERGY CO., LTD.

Relations with Stakeholders

12

Social Contribution and Communication

17

Environmental Activities Report
Business Operations and Environmental Burdens 18

Environmental Action Plan

Environmental Accounting

FDK AMERICA, INC. (Headquarters at San Jose)FDK AMERICA, INC. (San Diego Oﬃce)

SHANGHAI FDK CORPORATION

21

Promoting Environmental Management 2 223

Fortifying Risk Management

24

Increasing Product Values

25

Global Warming Prevention Measures

27

Promoting Green Factories

29

Environmental Solution Activities

31

Site Report

33

History of Environmental Activities

40

Site Report

Promoting Green Procurement

Environmental Activities Report

Basic Policy for the Environment and the Environmental Action Plan 19

ＦＤＫ KOREA LTD.

Social Activities ReportHiroshima Sales OfficeOsaka Sales Office

Management Policy and Corporate Governance 0 9

Management andOrganizational StructureManagement and Organizational Structure

FUCHI ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
ＦＤＫ HONG KONG LTD.

Production Sites
Non-Production Sites(Headquarters and sales)

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