Basic Policy for Environment and Environmental Action Plan
The FDK Group contributes to the sustainable development of the society. For this purpose, theFDK Group Environmental Policy is in place and environmental promotion activities arepromoted throughout the Group in line with the Environmental Action Plan.

FDK Group Environmental Policy
FDK Group considers it necessary to address environmental protection as a part of its corporate activities. This includes prevention ofglobal warming, reduction of wastes, and thorough control over hazardous chemical substances, all of which should be implemented not
only based on laws and regulations of central and regional governments of Japan, but also based on the wider global perspective. This must
be a shared idea among other companies as well, with the aim of realizing a sustainable society. In addition to its own activities, FDK Groupis determined to promote environmental protection in cooperation with Fujitsu Ltd. and adapt an environmental policy which forms thefoundation for environmental activities of Fujitsu Ltd. The FDK Environmental Policy is the essence of the group s environmental
activities, and aims to promote robust environmental protection activities through synergistic, voluntary reduction of environmental
impacts and cooperative actions with Fujitsu Ltd.

PhilosophyPrinciples
１．We strive to reduce the environmental impacts of our products
throughout the product life cycle.

The FDK Group recognizes that environmental protection is avitally important business issue. By utilizing our technologicalexpertise in the IT industry and our creative talents, we seek tocontribute to the promotion of sustainable development of society.
In addition, while observing all environmental regulations in ourbusiness operations, we are actively pursuing environmental
protection activities on our own initiative. Through our individualand collective actions, we will continuously strive to safeguard arich natural environment for future generations.

２．We are committed to conserving energy and natural resources,
and practice a 3R approach (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) to create
best-of-breed eco-friendly products.
３．We seek to reduce risks to human health and the environment
from the use of harmful chemical substances or waste.
４．Through our IT products and solutions, we help customers reduce
the environmental burdens of their activities and improve environmental eﬃciency.

SloganFDK Group Loves Nature for the Future of the Earth

５．We disclose environment-related information on our businessactivities, products and services, and we utilize the resulting
feedback to critique ourselves in order to further improve ourenvironmental programs.
６．We encourage our employees to work to improve the environment, bearing in mind the impact of their business activities andtheir civic responsibilities.

Environmental Management Cycle

Plan

Organizational Structure
Important issues such as policies on environmental activities
are discussed in the Environmental Committee. The resolutions made by the committee will then be implemented after
approval by the Management Council. Detailed action plansincluding policies and measures are decided at the Plant
Environmental Management Committee established at theenvironmental management system level based on ISO14001.
The plans are implemented by repeating the cycle of PDCA
(Plan, Do, Check and Action) for continuous improvement toachieve spiral up.
Hazardous chemical substances contained in products aremanaged at the Committee for Products Containing Hazardous Chemical Substances, a newly established internalorganization in October 2004, to eliminate use of hazardous
substances and appropriate control of them. (See page 25 forfurther information.)

Environmental
Protection
Activities

l up

S piraAction

Environmental Organization
Board ofDirectors
President& CEO
Management
Council

ImprovementandCorrection

Check

Monitoring andConﬁrmation ofActions andResults

Environmental Committee
Decision to important issues
such as FDK policies

FDK Group Environmental
Management Committee

Implementation of the FDK policies,
plans and promotes measures

Group Company Environmental
Management Committee
Committee for ProductsContaining Hazardous
Chemical Substances17Do

Environmental
Target/Objectives andAction Plan

Secretariat(Environmental Technology Center)
Overall control on the Group senvironmental protection activities

Environmental Protection Activities Report

An environmental action plan is a document created by the FDK Group delineating the targets for putting the Environmental Policy intopractice. FY2006 marks the last year of the Third Environmental Action Plan, and an assessment of the plan was made regarding theresults it produced. The achievements of the Action Plan include achievement of zero emissions at the end of FY2004, successful development of the ﬁrst super-green product, and acquisition of an ISO14001 certiﬁcation at all FDK oﬃces in and out of Japan in FY2005. Thoughcertain elements are diﬃcult to be assessed numerically, we came to a determination that we have ultimately achieved the targets set foreach and every item of the Action Plan successfully.

Management andOrganizational Structure

The Third Environmental Action Plan

Items

Action Plan

To establish own frameworks of environmental management in all the Group saﬃliates and subsidiaries, which are based on the environmental management
Reinforcement system (EMS), by the end of FY 2005ofEMS to be introduced in the entire corporate structure of FDK in Japanenvironmental
including its head oﬃce and sales oﬃces.
management
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Green
procurement

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compatible
products

To eliminate use of hazardous substances designated by Fujitsu Group in
manufacturing products by the end of FY 2005, except for those designated by
RoHS whose elimination target is the end of December 2004
Use of hazardous substances listed in 31 categories of Fujitsu Group s list will
be totally eliminated by the end of FY 2005.
For products shipped to Europe and covered under the RoHS Directive, use oflead, cadmium, mercury, hexavalent chromium compounds, PBB and PBDE
will be totally eliminated by the end of December 2004.

●●●Energy consumption and emission of CO2 reduced at the end of FY 2006 by
15% of those in FY 2000
The scope of these reductions includes FDK s plants and oﬃces in Japan.

●●Measures
against global
warming

Contribution to the reduction of greenhouse gas emission
Reduction of CO2 emission is promoted through improvement of logistics, recycled
use of products and packaging materials, and development and purchase ofenergy-saving products.

●●Discharge of chemical substances under the Pollutant Release and Transfer
Register (PRTR) reduced at the end of FY 2006 by 15% of those discharged inFY 2001
The scope of the reductions includes FDK plants and oﬃces in Japan.

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Promotion ofgreen factory

Generation of wastes reduced at the end of FY 2006 by 3% of those generated
in FY 2003
The scope of reductions includes FDK plants and oﬃces in Japan.
Zero emission of wastes will be achieved by the end of FY 2004 ahead of thetarget shown in the Second Environmental Action Plan by the end of FY2005
by 1 year.
●●●●Assessment

All FDK Group sites in and out of Japan werecertiﬁed as ISO14001 compliant by the end ofFY2005.
FDK s Head Oﬃce and Sales Oﬃces kicked oﬀ
the environmental management system andinitial surveys by the end of FY2005.
In FY2006, the FDKEMS was established andis in operation. (See P20)

○The number of suppliers which established theenvironmental management system increasedto 188. (Among them, 36 suppliers introducedFDKEMS.) (See P21)

Two super-green products were launched on
the market.
①Ultra-small multilayer power inductor MIPF
2520D Series (FY2005)②RF multilayer chip inductor AML0603E Series(FY2006)(See P22)
Prohibited chemical substances were totallyeliminated from the products as required by
the customers. All products required by thecustomers for continued consideration havebeen responded in accordance to the customer
specifications. (See P25)○○○

As to energy consumption, the volume of CO2emission was successfully reduced by 62%.
(53.998 ton-CO2 in FY2000 was reduced to20,460 ton-CO2 in FY2006.) (See P26)○

CO2 emission was reduced by revision of delivery
truck route to shorten the travel distance of atruck and enhancing the truck loading efficiency.
(See P27)○

The emission of the designated chemical
substances was successfully reduced by 76%.
(5.5 ton in FY2001 →1.3 ton in FY2006)(See P28)○

Generation of waste was reduced by 18%.
(2,081 ton in FY2003→1,708 ton in FY2006)
Zero emission of waste is continuing after
achievement of it at the end of FY2004.
(See P29)

Site Report

Provision of Super-Green Products by the end of FY 2006
Super Green Products are the advanced form of green products incorporatingsuch properties as energy saving, 3R (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle)-based design, andelimination of hazardous chemical substances. They are forerunners having theworld s ﬁrst
world s smallest
nation s ﬁrst
industry s ﬁrst
nation s
smallest and industry s smallest characteristics, which are intended to bereleased by the end of FY 2006.
EnvironmentallyProgress (as of the end of FY 2006)

Environmental Protection
Activities Report

Promotion of EMS to suppliers
To encourage business partners in Japan with no EMS to introduce it.
The scope of EMS include those certiﬁed by a third party certiﬁcation organizationsuch as ISO14001, EMAS, Eco-Action 21, Eco-Stage, local environmental management(FJEMS),FDK Group Environmental Management System (equivalent to FJEMS),
and other EMS systems unique to each business partner approved by FDK.

●Social Activities Report

Achievements of the Third Environmental Action Plan (FY 2004 − 2006)○＊ Assessment: ○: Achieved, ×: Not achieved yet

Social & Environmental Report 200718

Basic Policy for Environment and Environmental Action Plan

The Fourth Environmental Action Plan
After the completion of the Third Environmental Action Plan by FY2006, the Fourth Environmental Action Plan was establishedcovering for the periods from FY2007 to FY2009. The FDK Group will abide by the new Plan to continue its environmental activities.

Basic Concept
The FDK Group has successfully expanded its scope of environmental management from a plant based management system to a wider
management system involving the entire Group. In line with it, the scope of reducing environmental impacts has expanded from a plantbased activity to involve parts, products delivered into and out of plants, and logistics.
In the new Fourth Environmental Action Plan, while carrying on the idea of the previous Action Plan, the following actions are given focus
in order to raise the level of activities. In response to the surging interest of the general public toward environmental risks, the environmental management system for the entire Group will be subject to a total check, to establish and strengthen the operation of an environmental
pollution prevention system. Reduction of VOC (volatile organic compound) emissions is also within the scope of the Group s activities. The
Fourth Environmental Action Plan contains the targets for domestic Group companies. However, the FDK Group recognizes that the target
setting involving overseas Group companies must be addressed in the future.

Key Points of the Activities①To strengthen the framework of environmental management as the basic activity of the Group as a whole, and to maintainand strengthen the cooperation among non-production functions of the FDK Head Oﬃce and Sales functions and overseas
Group companies, by which the entire FDK Group unites its eﬀorts for environmental management activities.
②As people are concerned about global-scale environmental destruction and global warming, the FDK Group will make furthereﬀorts toward minimizing environmental impacts of the products it manufactures, by reducing CO2 emissions when theproducts are used and by resource-saving activities. The FDK Group considers it important to enhance the value of theproducts it manufactures through implementing more strict environmental measures.

History of Environmental Action Plans
The First Phase(1995 - 2000)

The Second Phase(2001 - 2003)

The Third Phase(2004- 2006)

The Fourth Phase(2007-2009)●Established a basic
framework of the environmental
management●Mainly focused on reducing
environmental impacts inthe plants●Top runner toward anenvironmentally sustainable
society●Strengthened its design anddevelopment function●Green procurement required
to suppliers●Departure from anenvironmental management
to a sustainable
management●Applied the above to the
Head Oﬃce and Sales
functions as well

●Framework of environmental
management to bestrengthened●Product values to beenhanced by environmental
considerations

Targets in the Fourth Environmental Action Plan (2007-2009)
Item

TargetStrengthening environmental
management

Framework for environmental management established based on the Environmental Management System(1)Level up of office functions(2)Strengthening the level of cooperation with overseas production sites

Green procurement

Promoting establishment of EMS (Environmental Management System) at suppliers

Strengthening risk management

Strengthening a system for preventing of environmental pollutions and its operation

Uplifting of product values

Measures against global
warming
Green factory

19To uplift the ratio of super green products to all products newly developed to be 20% or above by the endof FY2009
To achieve the environmental eﬃciency factor 2 of newly developed products by the end of FY2009
compared to those developed in FY2005
To reduce CO2 emission by 2% by the end of FY2010, compared to that emitted in FY2006
To reduce CO2 emission from transportation
To reduce VOC (volatile organic compound) by 30% by the end of FY2010, compared to that emitted in FY2000
To reduce the volume of wastes generated by 3% by the end of FY2009, compared to that generated in FY2006