Promotion of Green Factories

FDK Group promotes green factory which is an eco-factory incorporating such environmental measures as energy and resource saving, reduction of discharging chemical substances, prevention of air, waterand soil pollutions, and noise and vibration.

Elimination of Designated Chemical Substances
Basic Policy for Environment
and Action Plan
Promotion of Environmental
Management
Promotion ofGreen Procurement
Promotion of Environmental
Measures on Products
Measures for Global
Warming Prevention
Promotion ofGreen Factories
As a Global Citizen

17In order to reduce discharge of chemical substances from its oﬃces and factories and to alleviate environmental burden, FDK Group set
out and operate Chemical Substances Handling Regulations which requires all its oﬃces and factories to handle them appropriately.
For those used in production processes, each oﬃce/factory grasps the volume used and discharged to the environment, as well as thosemoved out of the premises as eﬄuents. In addition to the continuous activities to achieve its environmental targets, FDK Group isinvolved in raising accuracy of such data and promoting use of alternative substances.

Targets of the Third Environmental Action Plan＊Discharge of chemical substances under the Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR) reduced at the end of ﬁscal 2006 by15% of those discharged in ﬁscal 2001
・The scope of the reductions includes FDK plants and oﬃces in Japan.

PRTR-targeted Substances Emissions
Reduction

PRTR Chemical Substances Conditions
in ﬁscal 2004

FDK Group is addressing reduction of PRTR-targeted chemical
substances (354 Class I designated chemical substances). In ﬁscal
2004, the chemical substances discharged from FDK oﬃces inJapan was 1.74 ton of toluene only which was reduced by 51%
over the previous year. This means the target of the Third Environmental Action Plan was achieved by a signiﬁcant reduction of
68% over the level in ﬁscal 2001 in the ﬁrst year.
In FDK Group, toluene is used as a washing agent of products,
jigs and facilities, and a large volume of vaporized toluene isdischarged into the air. In order to reduce the volume of toluene
used, FDK Group has been examining the quality and performance of alternative washing agent for a gradual change over toit.
PRTR Law requires reporting to public oﬃces if a target chemical substance is used more than 1 ton annually. In FDK Group,
those used 0.1 ton or more annually are compiled in a data.

As a result of count in ﬁscal 2004, in accordance with shifting
ferrite production to overseas sites, nickel and its compounds
and cobalt and its compounds were no more used in the FDKGroup facilities in Japan, and the handling volume of manganeseand its compounds were reduced.
In addition, thanks to the promotion of lead-free campaign, thevolume of lead handled during the year came to 7.57 ton which isa decrease by 11% over the previous year.

Lead-free soldering dip machine (Kosai Plant)

Total Chemical Substances Handled in FDK Group Plants in Japan (100kg or more)
Discharged

Volume of transfer

Unit: ton/year

Handling
volumeTo the air4505.30

0.00

0.00

30.80

0.00

4474.50

0.00

Toluene

4.21

1.74

0.00

2.47

0.00

0.00

0.00

Lead and its compounds

7.57

0.00

0.00

1.93

0.00

4.92

0.72

Bisphenol A epoxy resin

6.38

0.00

0.00

0.05

0.00

6.33

0.00

Boron and its compounds

1.14

0.00

0.00

0.001

0.00

1.14

0.00

Di-n-butyl phthalate

1.26

0.00

0.00

0.004

0.00

1.260.00

Silver and its compounds

0.61

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.390.22

Antimony and its compounds

0.40

0.00

0.00

0.04

0.00

0.360.00

Chemical substances
Manganese and its compounds

ＰＲＴＲ＊

To theDischarged towatershed
sewerageContainedin wastes

Consumption
volumeRecycled

PRTR refers to Pollutant Release and Transfer Register. Under the Law concerning Reporting, etc. of Releases to the Environment of Speciﬁc Chemical
Substances and Promoting Improvements in Their Management enforced in March 2003, companies are required to report the volume of chemical
substances emitted and/or transferred as wastes to the relevant authorities and to publish the data in order to alleviate the risks of pollutions to theenvironment by chemical substances and endocrines discharged from corporate activities.