Sustainability Report2009

C O N T E N T S

About This Report

A Message from the President

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Summary of RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION

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Editorial Policy
As in previous years, RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION has outlined certain of its key

Special Features: Environmental Considerations in RISO Products
1. The ComColor Series

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2. RISO digital duplicators

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initiatives in an easy-to-understand manner covering each of the threeenvironmental, economic and social perspectives.
Sustainability Report 2009 systematically explains RISO’s environmental protection
activities in line with the six RISO Environmental Protection Principles set forth“Environmental Considerations in RISO Products”—an area where RISO places

The Company’s Environmental Conservation

exceptional emphasis.

RISO Environmental Charter & RISO Environmental
Protection Principles

under the RISO Environmental Charter. Furthermore, this report features

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RISO Environmental Protection Principles andIn addition, the Facts section provides detailed information on RISO’s
environmental accounting, environmental burden data, business performance andbusiness network.

Achievements in Fiscal 200909

1. Development of environment-friendly products

10This report covers all Japanese domestic business offices and sales branches of

2. Resource and energy saving

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RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION and RISO OKINAWA CORPORATION.

3. Local environmental protection

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including RISO TECHNOLOGY ZHUHAI CO., LTD. ZHUHAI FACTORY in China, for

4. Global arrangements18

the calculation of environmental burden data.

5. Continual improvement20

6. Environmental education and information disclosure

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Scope of the Report

It also covers all of the four overseas production bases of the RISO Group,

From this report, RISO has started to disclose basic environmental load
data—namely, consumption of electricity, fuels (including those used by company
vehicles) and water—relating to its overseas non-production bases. Please refer tothe Facts section for details.

Social Initiatives
For Customers

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For Shareholders and Investors

28

For Local Communities

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For Employees

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Corporate Governance/Compliance32

Period Covered
This report covers fiscal 2009 (the fiscal year from April 1, 2008 to March 31, 2009).

Facts

Note: Certain initiatives that fall outside the aforementioned period have also been included in thisreport.

Focus of the Report
This Report outlines certain of the Company’s activities from each of the threeenvironmental, economic and social perspectives.
Note: Discrepancies between the scope of environmental and social data are clearly identified.

Environmental Burden

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Environmental Accounting

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Third-Party Evaluation

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Publication Date
July 2009
RISO plans to issue its next report in July 2010.

Inquiries
Environmental Activity Promotion Dept. RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION
Tel.: +81-29-889-2527

Other Major Publicly Disclosed Documents
RISO regularly posts its business and financial reports on its Website.
URL http://www.riso.co.jp/

A Message from the President
Against this backdrop, RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION is guided by
the RISO Environmental Charter, a basic philosophy that emphasizes
efforts that contribute to global environmental protection andinitiatives that ensure a sound environment for the next generation.
Conscious of the influence exerted on the global environment by theCompany’s business activities, RISO actively promotes
Companywide initiatives that help to reduce environmental burden.
In the entire lifecycle of RISO products—encompassing
development, manufacture, marketing, and sales, as well as use bycustomers—certain natural resources are consumed, and various
wastes are generated.
Fully aware of this fact, we believe that it is the RISO Group’s
mission to create products and services that improve convenience

Akira Hayama
President and CEO

RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION

for customers and reduce the environmental burden of their officeactivities, as well as to continue to consistently provide suchproducts and services.
In February 2009, RISO released the ORPHIS X series(Japanesemodel for the ComColor series) of new, high-speed, full-color
printers in Japan.
One example of the series, the ComColor 9050, has been
designed to reduce the unit size and weight by 30% compared withprevious models. Still, its printing speed has been improved toenable the printing of 150 sheets per minute, while its running costs
have been slashed successfully.
As a development-driven company, RISO will continue to bolster
its technologies to allow its customers to reduce the environmental
burden of their operations and to enhance the efficiency of theirprinting routines. Through such an approach, the Company will keep
developing environment-friendly products for customers worldwide.
We have prepared Sustainability Report 2009 to communicate ourenvironmental initiatives to a wide range of stakeholders in areader-friendly and detailed manner.
In addition to our environmental protection activities, this reportintroduces the Company’s corporate governance, compliance andsocial contribution activities.
We sincerely hope that through this report our stakeholders
worldwide will understand the RISO Group better. And we would
certainly appreciate your candid feedback on our overall activities.

Jul.0901

Summary of RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION

Much faster and more cost-effective—
RISO is offering a variety of unique printing solutions
that accommodate wide-ranging customer needs.
RISO has created many exclusive products and services, pursuant to its development policy of“Creating Unique Products.”
The Company’s mainstay products are the ComColor series of high-speed color printers and the
RISO digital duplicators. These products dramatically improve the efficiency of printing routines in
offices.
These and other RISO products are working diligently—around you and in many other locations
throughout the world—to support communication through printed materials.

Aro u n d You
RISO printers are widely used for printing materials with which mostpeople frequently come into contact. Such materials include educational
materials used at schools, business memos circulated in offices,
circulars, direct mail and community newspapers.

In
Offices

Important
Meeting Materials“I need to quickly prepare materials containing information
to be announced today.”
One hundred sets of a three-page
document are required. A
30-sheet-per-minute printer takes 10
minutes, while ComColor 9050 takes
only two minutes.

printing contributes!Speedyto efficient business
operations.

At
Schools

Notices,
Educational Materials, etc.

The ComColor series printers arecapable of high-speed, low-cost
output of a large volume of color
documents. For example, the new
ComColor 9050 printer can print a
maximum of 150 sheets per
minute, contributing toever-more-efficient printing routines
in offices.

For
SportsFlash Reports,“I want to present important information using effective
coloring.”“We would like to deliver the results
events as quickly as possible.”

ComColor printers and RISO digital
duplicators (MZ series) can produce
impressive and appealing materials
through multi-color printing at low
cost.

ComColor printers and RISO digital
duplicators can print flash reports
and extras on the spot, where
sports events take place.

two-color printing!Full-andhelps deliver the message.

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Full Color ink jet Printers

printing!Immediacy-oriented
can be performed.

Corporate Data (As of March 31, 2009)
Corporate name
Established
Incorporated
Head office

RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION
September 2, 1946
January 25, 1955
5-34-7 Shiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo
108-8385, Japan
Paid-in capital¥14,114 million
Number of employees 3,227 (RISO Group)
Subsidiaries
24 companies(domestic: 5; overseas: 19)

At Worldwide Locations
RISO products are widely used at government offices, corporate offices,
schools, churches, print shops and other settings in over 150 countries.
Net Sales by Region (FY2009)

Japan 57%

Asia 12%Europe 19%

Digital duplicators

Americas 12%
Consolidated
net sales¥83,744 million

The RISO digital duplicators is arange of digital duplicators. RISO
digital duplicators are optimal forhigh-volume photocopying or
printing of the same original, while
also being capable of photocopying
or printing with alternative colors
through the replacement of thedrum unit.

Extrasasof dynamic and exciting sports

At
StoresFliers, Direct Mail

“I want to print fliers and direct mail more frequently andefficiently.”
ComColor printers and RISO digital
duplicators are capable of the
speedy printing of fliers and direct
mail at required times and inrequired quantities.

! Flexible and versatile printing

contributes to reinforcing relationships
between stores and customers.

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Special Features

Environmental Considerations in RISO Products
1. The ComColor Series

CO2 emissions over the ComColor series’ lifecycle
have been reduced by 40%.** Compared with RISO’s conventional models

RISO is working to reduce the environmental burden of its products throughout their
entire lifecycles, from development, manufacture, and sales and marketing to use anddisposal. Take the ComColor series digital printers for example. Compared with theprevious HC series, the ComColor series not only offers improved basic performance,
but it also achieves a 40% reduction in LC-CO2 emissions.*

Product Lifecycle
Material Procurement
Development/Manufacture
Transport* Lifecycle CO2 emissions: CO2 emissions converted from the environmental burden of a product over its entire lifecycle
Use
DisposalComparison of Per-Unit LC-CO2 Emissions

Latest Model

ComColor
Conventional Model

HC5500

LC-CO2 Emissions

LC-CO2 Emissions

3.44t

2.05t
ComColor Offers Higher Performance

Note: The calculation of LC-CO2 emissions is based on the LC-CO2 analysis(lifecycle assessment [LCA]) conducted by RISO.

ComColor 9050 realizes higher printing speed,
reduces per-sheet printing costs and lowers
environmental burden over its lifecycle.
printing speed: 120ppm to 150ppm*
cost per page: ¥2.5 to ¥2.05.*** A4 long-edge feed, simplex, continuous printing, plain paperand connected to RISO Face Down Tray.
** A4 simplex, RISO color standard original (cyan, magenta,
yellow, black total cover ratio 20%) in standard mode.

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Our Office, Fully Equipped with ComColor 7250
At Fujitsu, we are increasingly using color
User’s Comments
documents, such as proposals for our clients Mr. Hiroyuki Fukunaga
Manager, Manufacturing Industry
and direct mail informing people of ourSales Dept. 2, Metropolitan
seminars. In line with this trend, we have
Manufacturing Industry Sales Div,
faced the issue of improving the performance Fujitsu Limitedof the printers in our office andsimultaneously reducing printing costs.
HC 5500, a conventional RISO model that we introduced in 2006, has enabled us to significantly
reduce printing costs. In view of this success, we replaced a total of six multifunction devices that
we had been using—namely, two color devices and four monochrome devices—with five
ComColor 7250 printers at the end of March 2009.
In our office, about 300 people, particularly sales personnel, are using the new printers. Thanks
to the printing speed of 120 sheets per minute, we don’t get the feeling at all that we are actuallyusing a smaller number of printers. Also, now that we have five color-capable devices, we are nolonger required to wait for time-consuming color printing, a situation that we encountered sooften when we had only two color-capable devices in our office. Another benefit was that we are
now using every printer equally, averaging the workload on each machine.
Turning to ComColor functions, our colleagues seem to like the function of mixed size originals
both which enables to scan and combine A3 and A4 sized originals into a single document with
2-fold, since such a format is often used with administrative materials. In addition, they are
speaking highly of the function of creating PDF files directly by scanning paper documents.
As stated before, the device replacement work took place in March—one of the busiest months
in Japan. However, RISO’s sales people and technical staff provided us with meticulous services,
allowing us to smoothly introduce the new machines in our office without major troubles. We are
truly grateful for their efforts. In closing, we are very satisfied with RISO products and have very
high expectations for RISO to continue to develop new products with enhanced functions.

Approx.

105 kgFactor 1

Reductionin Weight

High-Speed Printing with a
Slim Body
While enabling the printing of 150 sheets per
minute, ComColor comes in a slim bodymeasuring only 122 cm in width. Comparedwith the HC5500, the unit weight and CO2
emissions have been reduced by approximately
105 kg and 0.29 tons (38%), respectively.
ComColor
HC5500Approx.

75 g
Factor 2

LC-CO2 Emissions*
1.39t
ReducedCardboard Material and Ink
Spout Used for Ink Cartridges
The use of highly recyclable cardboard
material and ink spout resulted in thedecreased use of resin for ink cartridges,
reducing per-cartridge weight and LC-CO2
emissions by approximately 75 g and 13.4 kg(74%), respectively.

*1.39 tons of CO2?

Approx.

This amount equals the amount of CO2 absorbed by one-hundred,
80-year-old Japanese cedar trees during a year.

2,504 kWh
Factor 3

Contributing to Reduced Environmental Burden
through Our Proprietary Printing Technologies
Adhering to its development policy of
RISO’s Comments“Creating Unique Products,” RISO has
Mr. Hidenori Fujioka
constantly developed proprietary printing
Director and General Manager ofResearch and Development
technologies to date. These technologies
Division,
have taken on a tangible form in our
Riso Kagaku Corporation
RISOGRAPH systems and FORCEJET
technology.
By applying these and other technologies in our products and providing these products to ourcustomers, we are contributing to the preservation of the global environment. I believe that this isthe very mission of RISO’s Research and Development Division.
We have long conducted lifecycle assessment (LCA) for our products. Based on the LCA
outcome, we have designed and developed the ComColor series by incorporating precise
initiatives aimed at efficiently reducing the environmental load of the new product line.
These initiatives proved effective, enabling the new series to boast high-speed printing capabilityof A4, full-color 150 ppm, simplex. In addition, we succeeded in reducing the unit weight and theuse of natural resources in the manufacture of ink cartridges as well as in improving
energy-saving performance.
Always stepping forward, we will continue to design and develop new products that provide ourcustomers with solutions for preserving the global environment.

Reduction in
Cartridge
WeightReduction in
Lifecycle Power
Consumption

Comprehensive Reduction inPower Consumption
Through the reduction in electricity required forprinting operations and the optimization ofrecovery time and power consumption afterswitching from the sleep mode, the lifecycle
power consumption and LC-CO2 emissions
have been reduced by approximately
2,504kWh and 1.02 tons (46%), respectively.

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Special Features

Environmental Considerations in RISO Products
2. RISO digital duplicators“Used products are not waste, but precious
resources” in RISO’s view.
Based on this view, RISO is administering its
internal recycling system.
RISO maintains a recycling system whereby we collect used printers or empty ink
bottles, in a concerted move toward a recycle-oriented society.
For example, RISO reuses and recycles 99% of all the components of a used
RISOGRAPH RE33P digital duplicator. **only marketed in Japan.

Recycling of Digital Duplicators
Center for Recycling

Collected

Disassembly

Washing

Cleaning

Reassembly

Aiming to Realize Zero Waste Generation
RISO established the Center for Recycling in 1998
RISO’s Comments
as an internal organization that exclusively produces Mr. Hisanobu Sugita
digital duplicators based on used products. More
General Manager,
Center for Recycling,
specifically, the Center for Recycling disassembles
Riso Kagaku Corporation
used digital duplicators, recycles reusable
components, replaces consumable components,
and reassembles and makes necessary adjustments to reassembled products.
Through the production of recycled products from 1998 to March 31, 2009, RISO has reduced
CO2 emissions by 7,000 tons, when compared with the situation wherein the Company had notundertaken recycled product production at all and continued to manufacture brand-new
products.* Also, before fiscal 2009, RISO had only undertaken the recycled product productionof monochrome models. From that fiscal year, however, the Company started the recycled
product production of two-color models. In addition to the recycling of digital duplicators, wehave started providing a supply of reused parts and components for maintenance purposes.
Looking ahead, we will work diligently to fulfill our corporate social responsibility of passing on ahealthy, rich natural environment to generations to come through the promotion of recycling
activities aimed at achieving zero waste generation.

06* RISO estimate based on data disclosed by the Ecoleaf Program of the Japan Environmental Management
Association for Industry (JEMAI)Contributing to Environmental Protection throughComprehensive Transport Services
Business Partner’s Comment
In 1984, RISO launched RISOGRAPH 007 that
Mr. Koumei Sunazaki
integrated the plate-making and printing functions President,
Hisago Service Co., Ltd.
into one unit. Due to the integrated functions, theunit weight increased, and accordingly, the burdenof transporting RISO products grew. In responseto the situation that RISO faced at that time, we made a proposal on transporting RISO products
using our trucks, which were equipped with a power lift. Since then, we have continued to build astrong business partnership with RISO.
At the beginning, we only accepted product transport operations from RISO. However, in line with
RISO’s strategy to facilitate more efficient product transport, we have gradually established a newworkflow. Based on this workflow, we conduct product adjustment and peripheral assembly andthen deliver finished products directly to RISO customers. The establishment of such a workflow
has enabled RISO and us to improve the quality of customer services, particularly through theshorter time required for product delivery. Furthermore, the elimination of redundant processes has
contributed to the reduction of environmental burden of overall product transport operations
conducted by RISO and us.
We pick up used products as we deliver new products to RISO customers. Going beyond the roleof a mere transporter, we are providing comprehensive support to RISO. More specifically, we
undertake the storage of used products recovered, manage information on producttransport/recovery status, forward used products recovered to materials collection centers andselect machines to be sent to recycling.
We are committed to contributing to RISO’s recycling system. To this end, we will further reinforce
our partnership with RISO and enhance the efficiency of our own services, thereby bolstering ourcontribution to environmental protection.

Inspection

Recycled

Disposed

Breakdown of Used
Printers Recovered by
Post-Recovery Processes

Recycled
Reused* For RISOGRAPH RE33P**only marketed in Japan.

91%
Reused8%

Recycled

1%

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The Company’s Environmental Conservation
RISO has established an Environmental Management System for the whole corporation based on the “RISO Environmental
Charter” and the “RISO Environmental Protection Principles” and now promotes environmental protection actively in its daily
corporate operations worldwide.
RISO established the “RISO Environmental Charter” and the “RISO Environmental Protection Principles” in August 1998 toclearly demonstrate its environmental approach.
The RISO Environmental Protection Principles serve as practical guidelines for promoting environmental protection activities.

RISO Environmental Charter
RISO resolutely acknowledges its membership in the global community, while
following a basic philosophy of contributing to society through the development of
excellent products. RISO endeavors to contribute to global environmental
protection in order to bestow a fair and sound environment to coming generations.

RISO Environmental Protection Principles
1. Development of environment-friendly products
When developing and designing products, we create and execute development policies that
reduce total environmental burden by considering the influence that respective product life stages
have on the environment in the manufacturing, distribution, use, recycling and disposal phases.
2. Resource and energy saving
We investigate the influence exerted on the environment by our business activities and try to saveresources and energy to reduce environmental burdens.
3. Local environmental protection
We observe local environmental regulations and investigate possible risks of contamination toprevent such occurrence in the case of an emergency, such as leakage.
4. Global arrangements
We also consider our influence on overseas local communities and environments when operating
or exporting products, and we try to respond to the requests of local communities as faithfully as
possible.
5. Continual improvement
We maintain a dynamic organization and system to establish environmental objectives and targets
and always work to improve such systems.
6. Environmental education and information disclosure
We educate our employees and carry out publicity activities appropriately, in accordance with the“RISO Environmental Charter” and the principles detailed above, to help employees deepen theirinsight on environmental issues.
We also disclose information on environmental issues without hesitation and work on further
reducing environmental burdens in cooperation with other community members.

Established on August 28, 1998
Revised on April 1, 2007

Akira Hayama
President & C.E.O.

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RISO Environmental Protection Principles and Achievements in Fiscal 2009
Pursuant to the RISO Environmental Protection Principles, RISO is proactively striving to reduce the environmental burden of
its activities and products.
The following table shows our major activities and achievements during fiscal 2009.
RISO Environmental Protection Principles

FY09 Achievements

1. Development of environment-friendly
products

Page in this ReportCompleted the development of and released the ComColor series

P.4-5

Recovered a total of 2,573 tons of used products and achieved a recycling rate of 98%

P.13

Reduced CO2 emissions in Japan by 2.1% year on year to 9,478 tons

P.14

Caused no major accidents or violations regarding environmental laws and regulations

P.16

Faced no penalties or administrative guidance by governmental organizations

P.16

4. Global arrangements

Completed preliminary registration of certain substances used in our products in line withEU REACH Regulation

P.18

5. Continual improvement

Set Companywide environmental targets and implemented related initiatives to achieve the targets

P.22-23

6. Environmental education andinformation disclosure

Conducted internal auditor training to improve the quality of business processes and thereby
reduce the environmental burden of corporate activities

P.23-24

Offered new recruits and mid-career employees Basic Environmental Education Programs (e-leaning)

P.24

Published Sustainability Report 2008

P.24

Renewed the “Environmental Activities” section of the RISO English website

P.24

Obtained environmental label certifications

P.25

2. Resource and energy saving

3. Local environmental protection(Eco Mark Program, International Energy Star Program, China Environmental Labeling Program [Type II], Taiwan
Green Mark Program)

An Overview of the Company’s Environmental Conservation
Design/Development

Procurement

Production

Logistics/
Marketing

RISO designs and develops
environment-friendly products,
with due consideration given to
their environmental impact inproduction, use, recycling anddisposal.

To create and provide
environment-friendly products,
RISO carefully selects the raw
materials and components it
uses and develops products thatcan be used with assurance.

RISO adheres to resource- andenergy-efficient production
activities based on thefundamental concept ofmanufacturing products on
demand in a timely manner andrequired volume.

RISO also works to reduce CO2
emissions and waste generationin its logistics and marketing
operations by promoting efficientlogistics operations and modal
shift and increasing the use of
returnable pallets.

DisposalRISO is working tominimize the volumeof landfill.

Reuse/
Recycling

RecoveryUse

RISO has established a recycling
workflow to maximize resource
uses while promoting the reuse
and recycling of components andproducts through stringent quality
inspection in Japan.

Based on the concept, “Usedproducts are not waste, but
precious resources,” RISO strives
to recover used products from
customers and recycle them inJapan.

RISO develops and provides
environment-friendly productsthat enable users to reduceenergy consumption.

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The Company’s Environmental Conservation

Development of environment-friendly products
RISO endeavors to reduce the environmental burden of its products throughout their entire lifecycle, from design anddevelopment to production, distribution, customer use, recycling and disposal.

To create a comprehensive structure, RISO has
appointed an administrator for environment-friendly
design for each of such processes as research/basic
technology development, design and development formass production and software development.
Also, the Company has appointed a deputy
administrator for environment-friendly design, whocoordinates and manages the progress of individual
product development projects.
Such an integrated structure allows the Company toaccurately control not only quality, costs and delivery
deadlines but also the progress of environment-friendly
design in each stage of development and production.

Policy on Research & Development
RISO's development and design philosophy is to “Create
Fundamentally Unique Products.” Over the years, RISO
has developed a wide range of products that provide
advanced print solutions based on its unique print
technology, as typified by the RISOGRPAH System.
In addition, RISO is aggressively undertaking R&D
activities in new fields, including inkjet technology. Inkjet
technology has been applied in the Company’s new lineof high-speed color inkjet printers, the ComColor series.
Such an aggressive R&D stance has produced
tangible results, enabling RISO to develop the latest RISO
EZ series digital duplicators with a design that reduces
the product’s environmental burden, as well as otherenvironment-friendly products, such as RISO SOYINK.

Process for Implementing Environmental
Considerations into Products
RISO assigns five stages—from product planning tomass production.
In each of these five stages, RISO sets targets for suchitems as environmental considerations, product quality,
costs and schedule. By monitoring the progress of thesetargets, we make decisions on whether we can proceed
to the next stage.
Stage targets for environmental considerations include
energy and resource saving, reuse, recycling and disposal.

Installation of an Administrator for
Environment-friendly Design
With the aim of incorporating thorough environmental
considerations in its products, RISO has established anadministrator for environmental issues and administratorsfor environment-friendly design. The administrator forenvironmental issues is in charge of securing theappropriate administration of the Company’senvironmental management system (EMS). The
administrators for environment-friendly design are
exclusively tasked with the management of environmental
initiatives regarding RISO products.
Also, the administrators for environment-friendly design
ensure that environmental design requirements and goals
are accurately incorporated into product development,
while monitoring the progress of individual projects sothat the plan-do-check-act (PDCA) cycle can effectivelyfunction for these projects.

Process for Implementing Environmental Considerations
Stage targets for environmental considerations:
Energy saving, resource saving, reuse, recycling, disposal, etc.
Products
Planning
Stage

Designing
Stage

Engineeringand Testing
Stage

Trial
Mass-ProductionStage

Mass-ProductionStage

New productlaunching

Diagram of the Research and Development Division’s EMS Structure(As of April 1, 2009)Management
Administrator for environmental issues
Deputy administrator for environment-friendly design
Administrator forenvironment-friendly design
Research/Basic Technology
Development Division
Research
Dept. 1

Research
Dept. 2Administrator forenvironment-friendly design
Mass-Production Design/
Development Division
Development Development
Dept.1
Dept.2

Project A
Project B

Development
Dept.3

Project D

Development Development
Dept.1
Dept.2
Project G
Project H

Project E
Project C

Administrator forenvironment-friendly design
Software Development Division

Project F

The Research and Development Division consists of departments for each technical field, such as electronics and machinery.
In addition, a team composed of people from such varied technical fields as electronics and machinery is formed.
By installing an administrator for environment-friendly design to oversee technical fields and projects as a whole, RISO seeks to faithfully implement
environment-friendly designs in each product it develops.

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ICS

TOP

RISO’s Ecological Approach in Products
The ComColor color printers boast the world’s highest printing speed* among office-use color printers.
Meanwhile, the RISO digital duplicators are widely used in government offices, corporations, educational institutions and othersettings in more than 150 countries throughout the world.
RISO’s printers and duplicators help reduce the environmental burden of activities in those settings as they are capable of processing
many documents with a small amount of electricity.
“More conveniently, more environment-friendly”—we always seek to realize such use of our products by customers and, accordingly,
tackle the design and development of products.
* A4 long-edge feed, simplex, continuous printing in standard mode, based on office color printers using cut sheet commercially available as of May 2009.
(Source:RISO data)

Ecological Features of the ComColor Series

Ecological Features of RISO Digital Duplicators

FORCEJET technology enables quicker printing.
Power consumption has been also reduced.

In stencil printing, inks go through perforations to make prints.
Thanks to this mechanism, stencil printing does not require heat infusing inks onto paper and therefore is environment friendly.

ComColor is capable of full-color, simplex printing of a maximum of 150
ppm,* or full-color, duplex 75ppm.** It is also capable of printing
one-thousand pages of A4-size color documents in just six minutes and
30 seconds.
While improving the printing speed, RISO has succeeded in reducing
the electricity required for printing operations. This has resulted in a
reduction in energy consumption per sheet of printed materials.
FORCEJET technology underpins such high-speed, high-volume
printing.

The RISO Digital Duplicators employ this mechanism. More specifically,
they create a plate by making perforations on a master, and inks areapplied onto paper through these perforations.
Since RISO Digital Duplicators does not use toners, it is not
equipped with a heater to fuse toners onto paper. This feature realizes
printing with a small amount of electricity consumption.
RISO Digital Duplicators (Stencil Printing)Printing

Time Required for Color Printing of 1,000 A4-Size Pages***(Min.)The ComColor
9050

0

5

10

15
20
25
(In-house comparison)

31 minutes and 15 seconds

Conventional inkjet printers employ ordinary print-heads, whichusually make several sets of a reciprocal motion to print. On the other
hand, ComColor uses in-line inkjet print-heads on which four wide
heads for four colors are arranged in parallel.
Printing paper is fed under fixed print-heads, which discharge ink
droplets onto the paper. This mechanism enables simultaneous
wide-area printing.
This print-head
Paper
In-line inkjet print-heads
mechanism, coupledwith a stable paper
feed mechanism, hasenabled high-speed
printing on ComColor.
Transfer belt

Image
exposure

MasterPrint drum
Ink roller

Photosensitive
drum
Toner

Paper

Approx. 6 minutes and 30 seconds

Office-use color
page printerElectrophotographic Printing
Pressure andheat fusing
HeaterPaper

RollerPress roller unit

For the RISO Digital Duplicators, we are continuously taking on thechallenge of reducing power consumption.
When comparing the RISOGRAPH GR series released 15 years ago
with the latest RISO EZ5 series, power consumption has been actually
reduced by approximately 80%.

RISO Digital Duplicators energy efficiency*■Energy efficiency (W)

100

50

Ratio (with energy efficiency of GR model set as 100, %)

100

86

80

40
30
20

50.8

60
43.9

10
0

37
18.7

GR

FR

RP

25

22

12.5

11.1

RZ5

EZ5

40
20
0

(1994 release) (1999 release) (2000 release) (2004 release) (2007 release)* For the ComColor 9050, with standard-mode, continuous, with A4 long-edge feed
printing of simplex,continuous printing in standard mode. Please note, however, thatthe printing speed varies depending on the tray and function used.
** For the ComColor 9050, with standard-mode, continuous, with A4 long-edge
feed,continuous printing in standard mode. Please note, however, that the printing
speed varies depending on the tray and function used.
*** Comparison of the ComColor 9050 with a RISO office-use color page printer,
which is capable of printing 32 ppm in standard-mode, continuous, simplex full-color
printing of A4 long-edge feed using a Face Down Tray

* The figures in the graph above are calculated in accordance with the calculation
method for digital duplicators defined under the Law on Promoting Green
Purchasing B4-compatible model

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The Company’s Environmental Conservation

Resource and energy saving
RISO investigates the impact of its business activities on the environment and works to save resources and energy,
thereby reducing its overall environmental burden.

Note 1: 3R
ReduceTerm representing the idea ofsuppressing waste generation
through the efficient use of waste inproduction, distribution and productapplication
Reuse
Term representing the idea of reusing
waste as products, components andresources through the recovery,refurbishment and inspection of usedproducts
RecycleTerm representing the idea of treating
and processing waste for renewed
uses, often for uses different from theoriginal use

Note 2: Waste
RISO considers all unwanted
substances generated from its
operational processes, including
valuable resources and resources tobe recycled or reused, as wastes.
Volume reused
The volume reused is presented as
the weight of matter reused,
including the volume of matter that isrecycled and reused as raw materials
and components of RISO products.

Note 3: Specific final waste
disposal rate
RISO calculates the amount ofspecific final waste disposal as thetotal of the amount of waste
incinerated, the residue and ashes
resulting from recycling processes
and used for landfill, and other waste
used directly for landfill. Then, RISO
calculates the specific final waste
disposal rate as the ratio of thespecific final waste disposal amountto the total waste it generates,
including valuable and recyclable
substances.
RISO recognizes the incineration ofwaste as an inefficient treatment of
resources. Therefore, the amount ofwaste incinerated is included in theamount of other waste directly used
for landfill.
RISO uses these voluntary indicators
to promote the efficient and effective
use of resources.

Note 4 Control Manifest for
Industrial Waste
Stipulated under the Waste
Management and Public Cleansing
Law of Japan, this is a form to be
used for ensuring the appropriate
waste processing. The term“manifest” has been derived from“cargo manifest” or “load manifest.”

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Waste Reduction
RISO promotes 3R activities (see Note 1) to reduce
waste (see Note 2) generated through its operations. In
particular, the Company focuses on the reduction of theamount of waste that is not recycled and is used for
landfill.
Reducing Industrial Waste
Having prioritizing the recycling of used RISO products,
RISO has enhanced its schedule management so that it
can efficiently conduct used product recycling evenduring seasons that are busy with recycling processes.
As a result, the specific final waste disposal rate (seeNote 3) for industrial waste stood at 3.1% for fiscal 2009.
Although we have not been able to accomplish a
Companywide environmental goal of “3.0% or lower,” wehave improved the rate by 3.3 percentage points
compared with that in fiscal 2008.
For fiscal 2010, ending March 31, 2010, RISO has set
an even more ambitious goal of achieving a specific final
waste disposal rate for industrial waste of 1.0% of lower.
Accordingly, we will step up efforts to reduce andmaximize the effective use of waste.
Reducing General Waste
RISO also worked to reduce the generation of generalwaste during fiscal 2009 through such initiatives as
stringent separation of waste. As a result, fiscal 2009
marked a year-on-year decrease of 0.4 of a percentage
point in the specific final waste disposal rate for generalwaste, which stood at 4.7%.
As with industrial waste, we have set a fiscal 2010 goal
for the specific final waste disposal rate for general wasteof 1.0% or lower, much more ambitious than the goal of
3.0% or lower for fiscal 2009. To achieve this goal, we arebolstering activities in related areas.

Specific Final Waste Disposal Rates
for Industrial and General Waste
Industrial waste
20

Reducing Water Consumption
Of the water used at RISO’s production bases,
approximately 30% is used for the raw materials of
products and as raw water for boiler steam. The rest,
70%, is for nonindustrial use.
Attributable to our water-saving efforts andproduction cutbacks, water consumption in fiscal
2009 declined 12% from fiscal 2008.

Trend in Water Consumption■Clean water ■Groundwater(％)

General waste(m3)

50,00040,19040,72640,00030,00018,292

17,60821,898

2005

38,412

37,911

18,51518,85615,321

23,11819,897

19,055

18,123

2006

2007

2008

2009(FY)

33,44420,00010,0000

Scope of calculation: Tsukuba Works, Ube Works, Kasumigaura Works,
R&D Technology Center

14.6

Reduced One-way Packaging

15
10
6.1

6.4
4.7

5
0

On-Site Auditing of Waste Treatment Contractors
With the aim of promoting appropriate waste
treatment, RISO audits waste treatment contractors.
In these audits, RISO employees physically visit
contractors of recycling and treatment once or more ayear. The audits involve general inspection based on
relevant contracts as well as on-site inspection forreception and storage conditions.
The Company also inspects the management andadministration of these contractors’ control manifests
for industrial waste (see Note 4). In the case of
inappropriate operations or conduct, we instruct theparties concerned to take corrective measures.
No problems, such as contract violation andinappropriate storage conditions, were found throughaudits of recycling and waste treatment contractors
during fiscal 2009.

5.1
2007

2008

3.1
2009

(FY)

Scope of data calculation: Industrial and general waste (including valuable
resources and recyclable materials) generated at the Tsukuba Works, Ube
Works, Kasumigaura Works, R&D Division and Shibaura Office; volume of
all used RISO products recovered in Japan; volume of materials recycled;
and volume of materials for other treatment processes

As part of efforts to reduce waste generation inlogistics operations, RISO is increasing the use of
returnable pallets and metal racks, while decreasing
the use of cardboard, Styrofoam and other disposable
packaging materials.
In fiscal 2009, the returnable pallet utilization rate
was 38%. This figure represents a 148.7-ton
reduction of disposable packaging materials.

Returnable pallet

Metal racks

Volume of Disposable Packaging Materials Used,
Reductions through the Use of Returnable Pallets and Metal Racks■Reduction through the use of metal racks ■Reduction through the use of returnable pallets■Volume of disposable packaging materials used
(tons)
500
4.2
20.1
3.9
31.5
37.4
400
126.3
88.5
148.7
129.9
300
119.7
200
217.0

100
0

2005

232.2

2006

293.7

290.5

2007

2008

238.7
2009(FY)

Scope of data calculation: Products (digital duplicators) shipped out from the Tsukuba Distribution
Center to RISO’s marketing bases, sales representatives and customers nationwide

Recovery and Recycling of Used Products
In fiscal 2009, the volume of used RISO products
recovered totaled 2,573 tons, up 130 tons year on year.
The volume of final disposal (landfill) decreased 54 tons
year on year to 58 tons, as a result of promoting therecycling of those used products recovered.
The recycling rate combining reuse and recycling
stood at 98%, representing a year-on-year improvementof 3.0 percentage points.
As an additional initiative to promote the recovery andrecycling of used RISO products overseas, the Company
conducted studies on actual conditions and needs ateach overseas base during fiscal 2009.
Based on the findings of the studies, and in line withlocal laws, regulations and societal demands, we havedecided to start constructing a framework for used

(tons)

3,000

2,000

1,000

0

391
1,260

409
1,528

2

419

1,689

7

428

1,727

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Recycling of Digital Duplicators
RISO collects used digital duplicators, which are thendismantled and divided into consumables and reusable
components.
Though the consumables are replaced, the reusable
components are inspected under RISO’s quality
assurance standards, with only accepted components
being reassembled in new printers after cleaning andrepainting.
Finished digital duplicators undergo rigorous testingprior to shipment as recycled products.
The non-reusables are sent to subcontractors forresource recovery.

319

343

302

275

2006

2007

2008

Generally, recycling consists of two
techniques: material recycling andthermal recycling. Material recyclingrefers to the processing of waste into
more reusable materials. These
recycled materials are used in new
products.

Note 6: Chemical Recycling
The plastics industry classifies
material recycling into two
subcategories: “material recycling”
and “chemical recycling.” Chemical
recycling involves turning waste
plastics back into carbon monoxide
and other chemicals for reuse. In
general, the process of making blast
furnace feedstock based on recycled
chemicals, as well as liquefaction andgasification, are considered to bechemical recycling.

Flow Chart of Recycling Digital Duplicators
Parts manufacturer

Recycled
Customer

Material
RecycleCenterfor
Recycling

Collected

Nonrecyclable
machines andparts

Gold, Copper,
Aluminum,
Plastic, etc

ThermalRecycleFuelMaterial Recycling of Ink Bottles and Ink Cartridges
RISO collects used empty ink bottles and ink cartridges
from users in Japan for material recycling (see Note 5) or
chemical recycling (see Note 6), to effectively utilize
resources.

406■Final disposal (landfill) ■Volume Recycled ■Volume Reused
3,000

20
2,000

396

205
2009 (FY)

Scope of Calculation : the amount of used RISO products in Japan,
excluding rental equipment returned or reused by different users without
refurbishment.

0

1,196
378
2005

(tons)

348

469

439

1,598

1,734

1,892

203
2006

214
2007

2008

481

1,942
1,000

2005

Note 5: Material Recycling:

Breakdown of Used Products Recovered by
Post-Recovery Processes

Breakdown of Recovery Used Products■Recycled ■Collected ■Ink bottles for digital duplicators■Ink cartridgesfor full color ink jet printersproduct recovery and recycling in China and South Korea
in fiscal 2010.
In addition, RISO is currently working to standardize its
recovery and recycling practices in Japan and plans to filean application and obtain a certification for the wide-area
implementation of the standardized practices during fiscal
2010.

112

2,167

58
2009 (FY)

Scope of data calculation: Volume of used products reused and recycled
and the final waste disposal amount, excluding rental equipment returnedor reused by different users without refurbishment

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The Company’s Environmental Conservation

Resource and energy saving

Energy breakdown
Conversion to fuel energy based on
Article 3 of Cabinet Order for Law
Concerning the Promotion of
Measures to Cope with Global
Warming (revised on March 24, 2006)
Bunker A: 39.1 MJ/L
Gasoline: 34.6 MJ/L
LPG: 50.2MJ/kg
Kerosene: 37.7 MJ/L
Procured power (daytime): 9.97MJ/kwh

CO2 Conversion of Energy
RISO uses the conversion factor
contained in Article 3 of Cabinet
Order for the Law Concerning thePromotion of Measures to Cope with
Global Warming (revised on March24, 2006) to convert energy
consumption to greenhouse gas(CO2) emissions.
Conversion factor
Electricity: 0.555kg CO2/kwh
LPG:3.00 kg-CO2/kg
Bunker A: 2.71kg-CO2/L
Gasoline: 2.32 kg-CO2/L
Kerosene:2.49 kg-CO2/L

Note1: Modal Shift
Although this generally indicates ashift in transportation mode, more
specifically it means a changeoverfrom truck and air transport to railand sea transport in order to reducegreenhouse gases and nitrogenoxide emissions into theenvironment.
Modal shift rate = domestic productcontracted transport volumes (tkm)by rail and sea ÷ domestic productcontracted transport volumes (tkm)

Note 2: Law Concerning the
Rational Use of Energy
With the revision of the Law
Concerning the Rational Use ofEnergy in March 2006, specificshippers with an annual 30 million
tkm of contracted shipments ofcargo were required (from 2008) tosubmit and implement an action plan
for reporting the previous year's
record of contracted shipments andimprove transport efficiency as well
as reduce CO2 emissions.

Approach to Energy Saving
RISO promotes energy-saving practices as well asactivities aimed at reducing CO2 emissions on a
Companywide basis to contribute to global warming
prevention.
In fiscal 2009, as an environmental goal, RISO set thetarget of reducing CO2 emissions per unit of net sales* forall RISO Group operations in Japan** to 0.1231 or lower(or reducing CO2 emissions by 94 tons from the fiscal
2008 figure). To achieve this goal, the Company
continued to step up its energy-saving efforts as well asactivities consistent with the characteristics of eachdepartment.
Adhering to the concept of manufacturing products indemand in a timely manner and in required volume,
RISO’s production departments engage in leanmanufacturing operations that effectively use resourcesand energy.
Also, RISO avoids introducing high-volume,
high-speed production facilities at the same time. Instead,when necessary, the Company introduces facilities in a
stepwise manner to respond to the exact demand level
while developing in-house facilities as much as possible
based on its know-how and expertise.
In fact, when expanding its production facilities for a
new product in fiscal 2009, the Company adhered tosuch policies and, accordingly, kept the scale of new
facilities compact, making them as energy-efficient as
possible.
Offices at the Company's head office and at the Sales
Division, our employees participated in a “so called CoolBiz, no tie/no jacket” campaign, while the Logistics
Department promoted modal shift (see Note 1).
As explained above, the entire Company tackled CO2
emission reduction during fiscal 2009. Despite such aneffort, CO2 emissions per unit of net sales for fiscal 2009
stood at 0.1384, meaning that RISO was not able toaccomplish its goal for CO2 emission reduction. However,in terms of CO2 emissions, the Company achieved a
195-ton reduction from the fiscal 2008 level.
* CO2 emissions per unit of net sales = CO2 emissions ÷ non-consolidated
net sales in Japan (unit: t-CO2/million of yen)** Scope of data calculation: Energy consumption, fuel consumption bycompany vehicles, contracted transport volume under the control of the
Logistics Department and CO2 emissions from these activities at all RISO
business bases in Japan

Reduced Contracted Transport Volume
and CO2 Emissions
RISO does not fall under the category of “specificshippers” defined under the Law Concerning the Rational
Use of Energy (see Note 2). However, with the aim of
reducing the environmental burden of its producttransport, the Company endeavors to grasp the exact
volume of contracted transport, thereby working to
reduce CO2 emissions from these operations.
In fiscal 2009, with respect to products such as
printers that had been delivered to Hokkaido from the
Tsukuba Distribution Center, the segment oftransportation by sea from Sendai (Miyagi Prefecture) andTomakomai was shifted to Oarai (Ibaraki Prefecture) andTomakomai, and the ratio of the distance of sea transport
was increased, with a total modal shift carried out.
As a result, the volume of RISO’s contracted transportin Japan during fiscal 2009 totaled 12.21 million tkm, andresultant CO2 emissions stood at 2,208 t-CO2.
Compared with fiscal 2008, the modal shift rate improved.
However, the volume of small-lot transport—which
demonstrates a low full-load ratio among all types of truck
transport—and waste transport increased. Accordingly,
RISO was able to reduce CO2 emissions associated with
contracted transport in Japan by only one t-CO2.

RISO’s CO2 Emissions in Japan and Unit of Net Sales(Excluding contracted transport operations)(CO2 emissions associated with energy consumption, fuel consumption by company
vehicles and contracted transport operations at all RISO business bases in Japan)■Electricity ■Bunker A ■Gasoline(Unit: TJ/year )■Net Sales (Non-Consolidated) (¥10 million/yr) ■CO2 emissions (t-CO2/yr)
CO2 emissions per unit of net sales (t-CO2/million yen)

RISO’s Energy Consumption in Japan

150

150

152
3
19
8

3
20

142

8

■LPG ■Kerosene
140
3
19
6

1
3
19
6

138

100

1
3
19
6

10,0009,97810,0500.14660.1418

8,000
6,807

7,089

9,753

9,673

0.1361

7,167

121

114

111

109

0.15

0.1282

7,544

6,000
120

9,478

0.1384
6,846

4,000

50

0.05

2,000
0

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

Scope of data calculation: Energy consumption at all RISO businessbases in Japan, excluding that associated with contracted transport
operations

14

0.10

(FY)

0

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

0
(FY)

Scope of calculation: Energy consumption by all RISO domestic sites, fuelconsumption by company vehicles, the amount of contracted transport by the
Logistics Dept., as well as resultant CO2 emissions from these activities.

Breakdown of RISO’s Contracted Transport by Modeand Modal Shift Rate
■Truck ■Rail ■Sea ■Air
(Unit: 10,000 tkm)
1,500
1
19
245
1,000

Modal shift rate
(%)
30

1

1

18
254
20.8

20.2

20
239
21.2

Reduction in Diesel Oil Consumption through Consolidated
Transport and Aggregate Reduction in CO2 Emissions■Aggregated reduction in CO2 emissions(t-CO2)
150
120

20

11,017

124.8

92.2

90
5,232

500

961

1,033

1,042

10

60
30

0

2007

2008

2009

(FY)

0

Scope of data calculation: Volume of contracted transport (of products,
components, raw materials, waste and used products) in Japan by the Logistics
Dept., Sales Dept., plants and the Center for Recycling

CO2 Emissions from RISO’s Contracted Transport in Japan

2,250

22
7

2,209

54

2,000

2,208
20
7

17
8

61.7

6,000

7,278
32.8

3,000

19.1

0

0
2005**

2006

2007

2008

2009 (FY)* CO2 emissions conversion based on the conversion factor for diesel oil(2.62kg-CO2/L) defined under Article 3 of the Cabinet Order for the Law
Concerning the Promotion of Measures to Cope with Global Warming(revised March 24, 2006)** Data for fiscal 2005 is for a 16-month period from October 2003, when
RISO started consolidated transport.

56

53

2,167

2,126

2,130

2007

2008

2009

1,000
500

(FY)

Scope of data calculation: Volume of contracted transport (of products,
components, raw materials, waste and used products) in Japan by the Logistics
Dept., Sales Dept., plants and the Center for Recycling

Consolidated Transport
RISO and Cleanup Co., Ltd. together started theimplementation of a consolidated transport strategy
based on the Strategic Logistics Information Model(SLIM) (see Note 3) in October 2003.
This joint initiative has contributed to improved
transport efficiency, effectively reducing fuel consumption
per unit of freight transportation (tkm).
In fiscal 2009, RISO was able to reduce diesel
oil-equivalent fuel consumption by 12,433 liters from thefiscal 2004 level, which was a figure recorded prior to theintroduction of SLIM.
The conversion of an aggregate total of reduction indiesel oil-equivalent fuel consumption into CO2emissions* reveals that RISO has reduced CO2 emissions
by 124.8 tons since the introduction of SLIM.

Method for calculating energy
consumption involving contracted
transport (Public Notice No. 66 of the
Ministry of Economy, Trade andIndustry of March 29, 2006)
Method for Calculating CO2
Emissions in the Logistics Field—
Joint Guidelines Ver2.0 (Ministry of
Economy, Trade and Industry and
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure,
Transport and Tourism)
Air Transport: 1.49kgCO2/tkm
Marine Transport: 0.039kgCO2/tkm
Railway Transport: 0.022kgCO2/tkm
Truck transport is based on the
ton-kilo method contained in the Law
Concerning the Rational Use ofEnergy, revised in March 2006.

Note3: SLIM* SLIM (Strategic Logistics Information Model)：Initiatives at Offices and Sales Departments

1,500

0

9,000

(t-CO2)■Truck ■Rail ■Sea ■Air
2,500

Reduction in diesel oil consumption(L)
15,00012,433
11,631
12,000Conversion of CO2
emissions involving
contracted transport

Each department at RISO’s head office is promoting
energy- and resource-saving efforts, which are centeredon reducing overtime hours through improved businessefficiency.
Offices at the Company’s head office and all sales
branches implemented a trial “Cool Biz” campaign in July
2008. Shortly after that trial, and after obtaining approvalof related departments and all employees, the head officeand sales branches implemented a full-fledged “Cool Biz”
campaign.
Before the actual implementation, the Company clearly
explained to its employees at the head office and to thesales departments the purpose of the campaign. At thesame time, we provided them with guidelines regarding
adequate “Cool Biz” appearance while posting a noticefor visitors. After thorough preparations and the trial
implementation, employees and related departments
gave approval and high evaluation for the campaign.
Accordingly, we advanced to the full-fledged campaign,
which extended from August 25 to September 30, 2008.
In view of the success of the campaign and otherenergy-saving initiatives, RISO started to participate on a
Companywide scale in the Team Minus 6% campaign
promoted by the Ministry of the Environment.

Based on this model, the Strategic
Logistics Partners (SLP) Community
Information Center centrally manages
delivery and other informationcollected from corporate clients toimprove the full load ratio and theoperational efficiency of logistics
operations in general. Corporateclients can check delivery time,
shipment weight and volume andother information via the Internet.
(Source: Cargo News No. 3071)

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The Company’s Environmental Conservation

Local environmental protection
RISO goes beyond merely observing environmental laws and regulations of the Japanese government and local
municipalities. Specifically, the Company works to identify the risk of pollution and contamination in preparation forpossible accidents and other emergencies, while striving to prevent such risks from materializing.

Note1：Corrugated walls
Though corrugated walls are said not
to be the cause of airborne asbestos,the decision was made to takeadequate precautions to prevent the
scattering of asbestos dust whendismantling and removing them.

Monitoring and Measurement
RISO performs periodic mandatory monitoring andmeasurement of air, water, noise and vibration, as well asof environmental burden items, such as energy
consumption, water usage, and volume of industrial
waste disposal. These are carried out not only to comply
with the regulations for environmental quality standards,
but also to build up a picture of actual environmental
impact and to evaluate the results of our environmental
burden reduction activities.
In actual monitoring, each works sets its own
thresholds for these environmental burden items andimplements countermeasures in advance as necessary.
In this way, the Company is working to prevent eachenvironmental burden item from exceeding its threshold.

Response to soil contamination
RISO’s production bases conduct thorough managementof chemical substances and careful inspection of facilities
to prevent soil contamination.
To date, there have been no instances of soil
contamination problems, such as chemical drainage
water outflows or penetration into the soil, at any of theCompany’s production sites.

Asbestos Use
The Company has conducted an asbestos survey andconfirmed that no asbestos is utilized in the manufactureand sale of its products. In cooperation with building
contractors, further surveys were carried out into whether
asbestos was used, for example, in the spray painting ofbuildings. Excluding cement-hardened corrugated walls(see Note 1), the Company was again able to confirm
that no asbestos was present.
In fiscal 2009, RISO assessed the status of its
compliance with laws and regulations. The results
showed that the Company is complying with all laws andregulations, except for the case of falsified de-inked pulp
content ratio, explained below.
With regard to environmental laws and regulations,
RISO has neither faced penalty charges nor received

Environmental Compliance Status
administrative advice from any governmentalorganization. Furthermore, the Company has notreceived any environment-related complaints fromneighbors of its business bases.
Falsified De-Inked Pulp Content Ratio
In January 2008, RISO found out that the actual de-inked

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pulp content ratio of its recycled paper products differedfrom the ratio disclosed in their specifications.
The Company took immediate action in response tothis incident, temporarily suspending the sale of applicableproducts and switching to substitute products in February
the same year.
During the period of this turmoil, RISO tentatively
shipped these mislabeled products only to certain
customers who understood the nature of the problem andagreed to purchase them. The Company implemented
this provisional measure to avoid market disruption.
In addition, the Company disclosed all of the measures
it had implemented with regard to this incident through its
Website, while also reporting them to relevant government
bodies and eco-label-related organizations.
This incident was caused due to the lack of a proper
framework to check the de-inked pulp content ratio thatappears in the specifications of applicable products.
Prior to the sale of substitute products, RISO confirmedwith paper manufacturers, which supply the Company
with recycled paper products, that they would establish
frameworks to enable them to achieve required productspecifications without fail. Their initiatives in this regard
would include the monitoring and recording of thede-inked pulp content ratio at their paper mills.*
In April 2008, the Committee for Examining theDe-inked Pulp Content Ratio under the Japan Paper
Association (JPA) announced a De-inked Pulp Content
Ratio Verification Program* and released checklists to be
used in the verification processes.
In line with the program and the checklists, RISO
conducted audits on two paper mills of a paper
manufacturer in May and July 2008.
In the audit, we checked the status at those paper millsof managing the de-inked pulp content ratio, as well as
various records and documents. The audit revealed thatthe de-inked pulp content is in conformity with thespecifications of paper products, and we physicallyconfirmed that the paper manufacturer had established aframework under which de-inked pulp content can becontinuously and adequately controlled.
RISO will regularly conduct similar audits of the paper
manufacturer once a year.
*Under this program, the de-inked pulp content ratio in printing paper isverified. The program sets forth various guidelines, including verification
methods, checklists to be used by auditors and the storage life of certifications
and other documents.

Total volume of released and transferred PRTR-listed
substances in fiscal 2009 increased 7% compared withthe figure in fiscal 2008.
Taking a closer look, the volume of PRTR-listed
substances released as waste through loss in
manufacturing processes decreased. On the other hand,the use of chemicals in non-manufacturing processes,
such as in floor refinishing paint, increased, resulting in an
increase in the volume of PRTR-listed substances
released into the atmosphere.
By constantly considering the use of alternative
substances, the Company will strive to reduce the use of
PRTR-listed substances.

Training and Educational Programs for
Accidents and Emergencies
Environmental risks in RISO’s business activities include
fires caused by accidents, earthquakes and other natural
disasters, oil leakage due to facilities failure, and water andsoil contamination.
To better prepare the Company for such risks, RISO’s
individual works conduct comprehensive disaster training
for possible fires and earthquakes every year.
In addition, they conduct training for process- andoperation-specific emergencies, such as oil leakage.
Issues and problems identified through these training
programs are attended and solved through the review of
emergency action plans, enhancement of emergency
gears and improvement of facilities and equipment. In thisway, we are working to minimize the possibility of suchrisks materializing as well as the impact should theymaterialize.

Chemical Substance Handling Management

Consumption, Release and Transfer of
PRTR-Designated Chemical Substances

3
2.3

2.5

300

RISO requests each supplier to provide MSDS (See Note 2)
to verify the characteristics of each substance, including
toxicity, handling precautions, storage and disposal methods,
in order to ensure proper handling. Based on suchinvestigation, RISO established specific standards tofacilitate the safe use and storage of these chemicals.

2

148.1

2005

A MSDS is a form containing data
regarding the properties of aparticular substance, provided by the
suppliers of such substances,
containing certain chemicals when
they are sold or transferred toanother party.

Note3: PRTR (Pollutant
Release and Transfer
Register)
The PRTR is a system aimed atpreventing environmental hazards
through control of the corporations
that deal with potentially harmful
materials. The PRTR is anenvironmental database or inventoryof potentially harmful releases into
the air, water or soil. Also included in
the database are wastes transferred
for treatment and disposal from thesite of their production. Corporations
do this of their own accord, reviewing
such data themselves, reporting torelevant administrative organs or
publishing the information.

1

100
0

1.5

189.2

200

2007

2006

49.7

53

2008

2009(FY)

0.5
0Scope of calculation: Tsukuba Works, Ube Works, Kasumigaura Works and
R&D Technology Center* The graph above shows data based on the results of environmental
inspections with regard to the release and transfer of substances that RISO
handled 1 kg or more in weight on an annual basis.

Cutting off PRTR Listed Substances
RISO is investigating the environmental release andtransfer of toxic chemicals listed in PRTR. (See Note3)
Based on this investigation, RISO examines the possibilityof reducing toxic releases, or switching to alternatives, sothat total releases and transfers during the manufacturing
process are minimized.
Total usage of PRTR-designated chemical substancein fiscal 2009 was 2.3 tons, a decrease of 0.27 toncompared with fiscal 2008.

Total usage (ton)
3.5■Total volume of chemicals released and transferred (kg)
500
3
2.8
2.8
400
2.57
400

Note 2: MSDS (Material
Safety Data Sheet)

Volume of PRTR-Designated Chemical
Substances Released and Transfered■2008(FY)
80(kg)■2009(FY)

60
40
20
0

35.1

36.2

11.7

0

Emissions into the air

0

15.0

1.8 2.9

Emissions into the waters Emissions into the soil

Waste generated(kg)

Breakdown of released and transferred volume
Emissions into the air Emissions into the waters Emissions into the soil

Waste generated

Toluene

2008
3.6

2009
21.6

2008
—

2009
—

2008
—

2009
—

2008
—

Xylene

8.1

13.5

—

—

—

—

Bisphenol-A type liquid epoxy resin

—

—

—

—

—

—

Di-n-butyl phthalate

—

—

—

—

—

Polyoxyethylene alkyl ether

—

—

—

—

Boron and its compounds

—

—

—

Molybdenum compound

—

—

DEP

—

Total

11.7

Total

2009
—

2008
3.6

2009
21.6

—

—

8.1

13.5

—

2.0

—

2.0

—

10.5

3.7

10.5

3.7

—

—

15.6

2.9

15.6

2.9

—

—

—

10

6.4

10

6.4

—

—

—

—

0.1

—

0.1

—

—

—

—

1.8

2.9

—

—

1.8

2.9

35.1

0.0

0.0

1.8

2.9

36.2

15.0

49.7

53.0

*— represents no handling/release/transfer of toxic chemicals. Figures are rounded off to two decimal places.

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The Company’s Environmental Conservation

Global arrangements
RISO considers its influence on overseas local communities and environments when operating or exporting products,
and it tries to respond to the requests of local communities as faithfully as possible.

Note1：Eco-StageA type of environmental management
system.

Note 2 RoHS Directive
The EU’s directive on the restrictionof the use of certain hazardous
substances in electrical andelectronic equipment restricts the useof six hazardous materials.

Note 3
EU REACH Regulation
The EU’s directive of registration,
evaluation, authorization andrestriction of chemicals requires theappropriate registration and control
of chemical substances according to
the quantity used. The directive also
stipulates different control standards
for different quantity ranges andtoxicity levels.

Green Procurement
RISO has been pursuing green procurement systems toprovide environment-friendly products.
To lessen the environmental burden, environmental
considerations must also be applied to the components
and materials of the products.
To cope with such requirements, RISO has speciﬁed its
principles and standards in the “Riso Kagaku Group Green
Procurement Standard.” In accordance with this standard,
RISO requests that suppliers not only apply environmental
considerations to the components and materials they
deliver, but also establish an environmental management
system. They are requested to acquire certiﬁcation of their
EMS, such as ISO 14001 or Eco-Stage, so that the proper
control is maintained and enhanced.
Currently, 90% of the Company’s business partners inJapan and overseas have established their own EMS.
Through the administration of their EMS, these business
partners are managing chemical substances.
RISO has requested those business partners that havenot established their EMS to establish it or to acquire
third-party certiﬁcations, such as ISO 14001 and
ECO-STAGE EMS certiﬁcation (see Note 1). Also, theCompany has been assisting these business partners inacquiring these certiﬁcations since 2007.
To date, nine business partners have acquired the
ECO-STAGE EMS certiﬁcation, and with this acquisition,
all of RISO’s business partners have acquired suchcertiﬁcation as of March 31, 2009, as the Company hadoriginally planned.
For those business partners that have not obtained
third-party EMS-related certiﬁcation, RISO has audited
their green procurement status. Through such audits, theCompany has conﬁrmed that these business partners
have satisﬁed the standards of controlling chemical
substances deﬁned under the Riso Kagaku Group Green
Procurement Standard.
During ﬁscal 2009, RISO audited 14 domestic
business partners and nine overseas business partners
for their green procurement status. The audit results
revealed that all of these business partners have satisﬁed
the Company’s standards.
RISO will continue to implement green procurement
audits for its business partners.

Riso Kagaku Group Green Procurement
Standard (main points):
1. Positive attitude for improvement ofenvironmental protection.
2. Observation of applicable environmental
regulations and laws.
3. Elimination of materials prohibited by thecompany standard from the production process
and from the material procurement operations.

18Management of Chemical Substances
Considerations of RISO Products
The entire world is witnessing the accelerated developmentof laws and regulations regarding chemical substancecontrol. The content of such laws and regulations havebecome constantly more stringent since theimplementation of the EU RoHS Directive (see Note 2).
In response to this trend, RISO introduced a ProductEnvironmental Data System in ﬁscal 2009. This systemfacilitates the effective management of various hazardous
chemical substances present in a large number of raw
materials and components used in our products.
In addition, the Company is working to ensure its
compliance with the EU REACH Regulation (see Note 3),
which took effect in June 2007.
During ﬁscal 2009, we conducted studies on thechemical substances used in our products andundertook the preliminary registration of substances
regulated under the REACH Regulation.
In step with these activities, the Company has
conducted studies on the raw materials and componentsthat it uses for substances of very high concern (SVHC)
and substances described in the pre-candidate list,
which are designated under the REACH Regulation.
Through the appropriate management of applicable
substances, we will promote necessary registrations andﬁlings by the designated deadlines.
Cooperating with Suppliers
RISO effectively limits the use of hazardous chemical
substances in its products. To this end, the Company has
prohibited the use of 15 substances and has approved
the use of nine other substances, but only with particular
caution.
With the aim of effectively controlling the use of such
substances in the raw materials and components that it
uses, RISO asks its suppliers for thorough control ofapplicable chemical substances.

Environmental Performance of Global Bases
The RISO Group is accelerating activities to lessen theenvironmental burden of Groupwide operations.
These activities involve the accurate understanding of
the environmental burden of Groupwide operations andthe effective promotion of initiatives aimed at reducing theenvironmental burden of the Company’s global operation
bases. More speciﬁcally, we started to collect theenvironmental burden data of our overseas production
bases in ﬁscal 2008 and of our overseas non-production
bases in ﬁscal 2009. Tables on the following page show
the results of data collection.

E!

VOIC

Akio Kadowaki
General Manager
Shanghai Plant
RISO TECHNOLOGYZHUHAI CO., LTD.

Acquisition of ISO 14001 Certification
At a RISO Technology Zhuhai Co. Ltd. Shanghai Plant, we started preparations for the acquisition of the ISO 14001
certiﬁcation in October 2008. After receiving two external audits, we ﬁnally acquired the certiﬁcation in May 2009.
Our top priority in preparation processes was to enhance the environmental awareness of our employees and todisseminate the meaning of acquiring this certiﬁcation throughout the branch plant.
As various media report, the awareness of environmental preservation and eco-friendly waste processing is still weak in China.
This is the very reason that we thought it is important for our employees to ﬁrst understand RISO’s environmental
approach and product reliability in winning the continued patronage of customers.
The schedule for the acquisition of the certiﬁcation was really tight, keeping the staff involved extremely busy.
However, the team in charge drove the efforts at the branch plant, and all employees here joined force toaccomplish one shared goal. Thanks to their endeavors, we have been able to efﬁciently promote the activities
necessary to produce a satisfactory outcome.
Also, while promoting relevant activities, we have been able to identify other issues and problems in our operations
and come up with countermeasures for such difﬁculties. These unexpected by-products have helped us improveoverall operations at our branch plant.
We previously obtained the ISO 9001 certiﬁcation for our quality management system. With the acquisition of the ISO 14001
certiﬁcation for our EMS, I am expecting to see an additional enhancement of the branch plant’s operations in terms ofcompliance with environmental laws and regulations as well as minimization of environmental risks, such as those for pollution.
We are committed to continuously reinforcing activities to improve our QMS and EMS and are thereby constantly
aiming for higher goals.

Calculation of CO2
emissions for overseas
basesElectricity: Used 1.0119 of 0.9421
kg-CO2/kWh, depending on theregion.
CO2 emissions from electricity
consumption are calculated basedon the China Electric Power
Statistical Yearbook (2000 – 2006),
the China Energy Statistical Yearbook(2004 – 2006) and the 2006 IPCC
Guidelines for National Greenhouse
Gas Inventories.
In the conversion of fuel consumption
into CO2 emissions, RISO used
individual conversion factors for eachfuel type, as deﬁned under Article 3of the Cabinet Order for the Law
Concerning the Promotion of
Measures to Cope with Global
Warming (revised March 24, 2006).

Environmental Burden of Overseas Non-Production Bases
Energy Consumption
Electricity
Heavy oil
Natural gas

Scope of calculation: Overseas 13 subsidiaries of RISO group（RISO, INC.,RISO FRANCE S.A., RISO (Deutschland) GmbH,RISO EUROPE LTD., RISO (U.K.) LTD.,RISO IBERICA,S.A., RISOGRAPH ITALIA S.p.A,
RISO AFRICA (PTY) LTD., RISO KOREA LTD.,RISO HONG KONG LTD., RISO (Thailand) LTD.,RISO INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED,
Non-production base of RISO TECHNOLOGY ZHUHAICO.,LTD.)

1,830 (MWh/yr)
2 kℓ
20 Km3

Fuel consumption of company vehicles
Gasoline
801 kℓDiesel oil
147 kℓWater Consumption
Clean water

10,305 m3

Environmental Burden of Overseas Production Bases
INPUT

FY08

FY09

Breakdown of Energy Consumption
Electricity(MWh/yr)
LPG(t/yr)
Bunker A(kl/yr)
Kerosene(kl/yr)Diesel oil(kl/yr)Gasoline(kl/yr)
Water consumption
(m3)
Metal
(t)
Plastic
(t)
Glass
(t)
Paper
(t)
Other
(t)
Subtotal

1,190
0.3
8.3
0.1
6.6
31.2
13,972
3,050
901
28
542
1,150
19,643

1,130
0
4
0
4.5
27.8
11,921
2,406
859
2
624
1,561
17,373

Change from
FY08 (%)

95
0
48
0
68
89
85
79
95
7
115
136
88

Change from
FY08 (%)

FY08

FY09

(t-CO2/yr)(t-CO2/yr)(t-CO2/yr)(t-CO2/yr)(t-CO2/yr)(t-CO2/yr)(t-CO2/yr)
(m3)
(m3)
(t)

1,302
1,190
1
22
0
17
72
13,476
0
6,167

1,214
1,127
0
11
0
12
64
11,460
0
5,913

93
95
0
50
—
71
89
85
—
96

Subtotal
Waste generation*1(t)Volume transferred to recycling processes*2 (t)Volume recycled*3(t)Other*4(t)
Final disposal (landﬁll)*5(t)

19,643
97.2
0
75.3
18
3.9

17,373
87.4
0
73.9
5.3
2.3

88
90
—
98
29
59

OUTPUT
CO2 emissions
Electricity
LPG
Bunker A
Kerosene
Diesel oil
Gasoline
Water drainage
Steam, water, etc. emissions
Products*1 Waste generation: RISO considers all unwanted substances generated from its operational processes, including valuable resources and resources to be recycled or reused, as waste.
*2 Volume transferred to recycling processes: The amount of recycled materials to be reused as raw materials in operational processes.
*3 Volume recycled: Total volume of materials for recycling and thermal recycling, including valuable resources. The volume to be reused in operational processes is excluded.
*4 Other: The amount of decrease in gas emissions from recycling and incineration and other waste that cannot be clearly classified.
*5 Final disposal (landfill): The volume to be disposed of in landfill sites, which includes residues and incinerated ash from intermediate process recycling.
Scope of calculation: All overseas production bases within the RISO Group, including the Zhuhai Plant of RISO TECHNOLOGY ZHUHAI CO., LTD. in China
Subject of calculation: Energy consumption and the resultant CO2 emissions, water consumption and wastewater and waste generation
Materials used in production, fuel consumption by company vehicles and resultant CO2 emissions* Data relating to contracted transport, energy consumption by the Sales Division and resultant CO2 emissions is not included.

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The Company’s Environmental Conservation

Continual improvement
RISO maintains a dynamic organization and system to establish environmental objectives and targets and always works
to improve them.

Note 1 Management Review
RISO’s management reviews theCompany’s management systems forappropriateness and effectiveness.
Based on the findings through such
reviews, management determines the
direction of Companywide
environmental activities byformulating policies and setting
goals.

System for Promoting Environmental
Protection Activities
At RISO, the President & CEO serves as the chief
executive in charge of promoting environmental
protection activities. The president also appoints a
General Administrator for Environmental Issues who is
responsible for the establishment, execution, practiceand improvement of the environmental management
system (EMS) for the entire Company.
The General Administrator for Environmental Issues
hosts the Environmental Promotion Board, which is thelower branch of the Executive Committee, and promotes
the environmental protection activities of the entire
Company.
The Environmental Promotion Board holds ordinary
bimonthly meetings as well as extraordinary meetings asnecessary. At these meetings, the board studies various
issues across departments while deliberating on, making
decisions on and formulating countermeasures. The
board then offers its opinions to the Executive Committee
on an as-required basis.
RISO use a Companywide EMS in combination withan EMS for its head office and business offices topromote environmental protection activities.
Under the Companywide EMS, RISO sets basic
environmental rules, Companywide environmental
objectives and targets in line with the RISO Environmental
Charter and the RISO Environmental Protection
Principles. Based on these rules, objectives and targets,the entire Company is working to improve its
Companywide environmental performance.
Under the EMS for the head office and businessoffices, each office takes specific approaches congruent
to the characteristics of its workplaces and operations.
The Production Division and the Research andDevelopment Division, which handle a wide range ofchemical substances, administer the EMS with particularfocus given to careful handling and management ofchemical substances. Meanwhile, the Sales Division and
the Corporate Headquarters at the head office use their
EMS to enhance communication with customers andimprove the quality of operations.
Based on such an organizational structure, RISO is
implementing practical environmental management. In otherwords, RISO tackles Companywide issues and problems by
joining the forces of all departments and offices, while
individual departments and offices work on their own issues
and problems through their own approaches.
Environmental Management Review
To improve the efficiency of management system
operations, RISO is promoting the integrated operation of
the environmental management system and the quality
management system. At the same time, RISO is
conducting Management Review (see Note 1) meetingsfrom the perspective of environment and quality.
The Quality and Environmental Management Review
was held on November 19, 2008 in the presence of the
President & CEO, and the evaluation of fiscal 2009 quality
and environmental activity performance and future efforts
were discussed at this review.

Total Environmental Management Organization
The Board of Directors
Executive Committee
Top Management

The General Administrator for
Environmental Issues
Director in charge of Environmental
Activity Promotion Dept.

President & C.E.O.

Director in Charge of
Headquarters/Divisions

Director in Charge of
Headquarters/Divisions

Administrator for Environmental
Issues of the Division

Administrator for Environmental
Issues of the Site

EMS Office in Division
Each General Manager(Department, Office)20

The Environmental Promotion BoardEMS Office at Site

Each General Manager(Plant, Department, Office)

QMS/EMS Office in the
Headquarters

Results of the Fiscal 2009 Management
Review (Environmental)• Based on progress made toward environmental
goals in fiscal 2009, RISO has set environmental
goals for fiscal 2010.
• “RISO’s energy-saving activities, related risks andcountermeasures” was reported and deliberated
through the Environmental Management Review.
After the deliberation, the Company decided tocontinue its energy-saving activities.

The Achievement of ISO 14001 Certification
RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION acquired integrated ISO
14001 certification, the international standard forenvironmental management systems, covering all its
domestic facilities (see Note 1) on December 21, 2006.
In September 2008, with the aim of improving theefficiency of integrated administration of its QMS and
EMS, RISO moved the schedule for an ISO 14001
inspection forward by one year and accordingly
underwent QMS and EMS inspections at the same time.
Both QMS and EMS certifications were renewed,
effective through December 17, 2011.
Currently, all domestic business offices and sites—
excluding the RISO Contact Center (Naha City, Okinawa
Prefecture) opened in February 2009—of RISO KAGAKUCORPORATION and RISO OKINAWA CORPORATION
have acquired the ISO 14001 certification. The RISO
Contact Center is scheduled to acquire the certification
during fiscal 2010.
Overseas, the Shanghai Branch Plant of RISOTECHNOLOGY ZHUHAI CO., LTD. acquired the ISO
14001 certification in May 2009. This means that three ofall four RISO production bases overseas have acquired
the certification to date.
RISO (SHANGHAI) INTERNATIONAL TRADING CO.,LTD. is advancing the establishment of an EMS.
However, RISO has no intention of applying for thecertification for the time being because this Shanghai
base is small in scale.
Also, RISO has no plan to apply for the ISO 14001
certification for its non-production bases and sales
subsidiaries overseas.

Environmental Audits
RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION conducts two types ofenvironmental audits. Both internal and external
environmental audits are aimed at continuous EMS
improvements and retention of the ISO 14001
certification. The Company uses ISO 14001 certification
bodies in its external environmental audits.

Internal Environmental Audits
Internal environment audits at RISO take two forms. One
audit covers activities in every department and section of
a division or site. Taking a Companywide perspective, theother takes the form of audits into the management
status of the Company’s environmental activities being
carried out by the administrators responsible forenvironmental issues at each division or site, as well as
their respective on-site EMS offices.
With the aim of realizing more efficient and effective
internal environmental audits, RISO introduced aself-check sheet system in fiscal 2009.
The self-check sheet system helps individual
departments self-evaluate their activities in line withdesignated rules and regulations prior to actual audits.
Prior self-evaluation also contributes to shortening thetime required for actual audits, and that saved time canbe used for identifying issues and problems. Accordingly,
we have received more advice concerning theimprovement of business quality and performance.

Environmental Activities of theDomestic Sales Division
As explained before, RISO aggressively promotes therecovery of used products. In this initiative, collaborationand cooperation among marketing frontlines andrecovery centers located throughout Japan are
indispensable.
During fiscal 2009, the Company introduced aTransport Order System. Connecting RISO andnationwide recovery centers online, this system organizes
operations for product transport and used productpickup by giving necessary directions to related parties.
The system has enabled the accurate management ofrecords on used products recovered from customers,covering everything from pickup through to recycling
processes.
These activities have enabled RISO to conduct
smoother recycling processes throughout fiscal 2009. In
fact, the system has made a significant contribution to
the Company’s efforts in achieving the environmental goalof “reducing the specific final waste disposal rate forindustrial waste to 3.0% or lower.” (See page 22 fordetails.)Also, during fiscal 2009, the Sales Division has striven
to accomplish the environmental goal of “promoting thesale of environment-friendly digital duplicators.” Theachievement rate for this goal stood at 67.7%.

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The Company’s Environmental Conservation

Continual improvement

Assessment of Fiscal 2009 Achievements
and Future Issues
In an effort to implement environmental activities on a
Companywide basis, RISO started to set Companywide
objectives and goals to reduce environmental burden andimprove the Environmental Management System (EMS)in December 2005.
The table to the left shows RISO’s environmental
objectives, goals and achievements in fiscal 2009 as wellas goals for fiscal 2010.
Prevention of global warming
RISO accomplished the goal in terms of reducing CO2
emissions per unit cost of production. However, theCompany was not able to achieve the goal in terms of
reducing CO2 emissions per unit of net sales. This was
attributable to an unexpectedly significant fall in net sales,
despite a year-on-year decline in CO2 emissions.
Saving resources
The Company was able to reduce the final waste
disposal rate for industrial waste to the target level for
fiscal 2009. However, we have not been able to reduce
the final waste disposal rate for general waste to thetarget level.
These results were primarily attributable to a change inthe classification of fully recyclable, waste wood-based
pallets under the Waste Disposal and Public Cleansing
Law of Japan. More specifically, the classification of thosepallets has been changed from general waste to industrial
waste.
The Company has conducted studies on the status of
used product recovery and recycling at its overseas
bases. Based on the studies, we have decided to start
the construction of a framework for used productrecovery and recycling in China and South Korea fromfiscal 2010.
In Japan, we have already established such aframework and have accordingly put its administration on
track. RISO is currently working to standardize its
recovery and recycling practices in Japan and plans to filean application and obtain a certification for the wide-area
implementation of the standardized practices.
Management of Hazardous Chemical Substances
EDuring fiscal 2009, RISO conducted studies on thechemical substances used in its products that are
regulated by the EU REACH Regulation and has
consequently determined which of those requirepreliminary registration under the regulation. The
Company completed the preliminary registration of
applicable chemical substances in December 2008.
From now on, we will advance activities aimed at realizing
the registration of these substances.

22

Environmental Objective
Prevention of global warming

FY09 Environmental Goal

Reduction of CO2 emissions

In fiscal 2011, improve total CO2 emissions per unit
cost of production at production bases by 36%
compared with fiscal 2001*1

Reduce total CO2 emissions per unit cost of
production at production sites to 0.1261 or lower(fiscal 2001 figure: 0.1927)(Reduce CO2 emissions by 7t from fiscal 2008 figure)In fiscal 2011, improve CO2 emissions per unit of net
sales for all RISO Group operations in Japan by 18%
compared with fiscal 2005*1

Reduce CO2 emissions per unit of net sales for all
RISO Group operations in Japan to 0.1231 or lower(fiscal 2005 figure: 0.1466)(Reduce CO2 emissions by 94t from fiscal 2008 figure)

Saving resources Reduction of final waste disposal rate
By bringing about a reduction in the final waste
disposal rate, achieve a specific final waste disposal
amount (landfill amount + net incineration amount) fora total waste generation (including valuable resources
and recyclable material) of 1% or lower in the fiscal
year ending March 31, 2010.

Reduce the specific final waste disposal rate forindustrial waste for all RISO Group operations inJapan*1 to 3% or lower.

Reduce the specific final waste disposal rate forgeneral waste for all RISO Group operations inJapan*1 to 3% or lower.

Saving resources Recovery and recycling of used products
Implement improvements to the recovery rate ofused products (machines, ink bottles) and promote
recycling.

Examine the viability of recovering and recycling
used products overseas and formulate action plans
after fiscal 2010.

̶Elimination of hazardous substances/Reduction of environmental risk Control of chemical substances cDevelop systems and schemes capable ofresponses in accordance with laws and regulations
governing chemical substances.

Conduct study of chemical substances used in
RISO products in accordance with the EU REACH
Regulation. If necessary, RISO will apply forpreliminary registration of applicable chemical
substances between June and December 2008.

Sales of environment-friendly products Expansion of sales of environment-friendly products
Expand sales of environment-friendly products.

Promote sale of environment-friendly digital
duplicators.

Ongoing EMS improvements Establishment of RISO Group Environmental Promotion System
Set up EMS at all principal sites in Japan andoverseas by the end of fiscal 2008, promote
environmental protection activities.

Establish a framework to closely monitor fiscal 2009environmental burden data for overseas plants by
the end of fiscal 2009.

Environmental communication Enhancement of Environmental communication
Expand RISO Supporter by appropriate and proactive Publish “Sustainability Report 2008,” providing more
information on RISO’s social contribution activities.
disclosure of information, thereby bringing about
With sustainability reports as the core communication
improved stakeholder satisfaction levels.
vehicle, reinforce the Company’s environmental
communications, including the revision and posting ofenvironmental information on the RISO English Website.

Environmental education Enhancement of Environmental education
Improve employees' understanding of theenvironment and their skills related to activities geared
toward the environment.

Focus on reducing environmental burden by
improving the quality and efficiency of operational
processes, formulate plans for internal auditor andgeneral manager training and conduct such training
during fiscal 2008.

Rating symbols; ○: Satisfactory; △: Improved; ×: Unsatisfactory

Scope and Subject of Calculation (FY09)

Related
Pages

Reduce total CO2 emissions per unit cost of production
at production sites to 0.1248 or lower (fiscal 2001
figure: 0.1927)(Reduce CO2 emissions by 65t from fiscal 2009 figure)

Energy (electricity and fuel) consumption by the threedomestic production sites (Tsukuba, Ube andKasumigaura) and resultant CO2 emissions, excluding
the R&D Technology Center within the Tsukuba works
and fuel consumption by company vehicles.

P.14

Reduce CO2 emissions per unit of net sales for all RISOGroup operations in Japan to 0.1219 or lower (fiscal
2005 figure: 0.1466)(Reduce CO2 emissions by 334t from fiscal 2009 figure)

Energy consumption by all RISO domestic sites, fuelconsumption by company vehicles, the amount ofcontracted transport for products and services managed
by the Logistics Dept. , as well as resultant CO2
emissions from these activities. Use non-consolidated
net sales for calculation.

△

Reduce the specific final waste disposal rate forindustrial waste for all RISO Group operations in Japan*1
to 1% or lower.

Industrial waste generated by the Tsukuba works, Ube works,
Kasumigaura works, Research & Development Division andShibaura works, including emissions of valuable and recyclable
substances; the amount of used RISO products recovered,recycled or treated otherwise, excluding rental equipment
returned or reused by different users without refurbishment.

For all general waste generated by RISO in
Japan, the specific final waste disposal rate*
was 4.7%, not meeting the fiscal 2009 goal.
The rate improved 0.4 of a percentage pointfrom the 5.1% recorded in fiscal 2008.

△

Reduce the specific final waste disposal rate for generalwaste for all RISO Group operations in Japan*1 to 1% orlower.

General waste generated by the Tsukuba works, Ubeworks, Kasumigaura works, Research & Development
Division and Shibaura office.

P.12

RISO conducted studies on the status at its overseas
business bases and decided to start constructing aframework for used product recovery and recycling fromfiscal 2010 in China and South Korea.

○

Complete the construction of a framework for usedproduct recovery and recycling in China and South
Korea by March 31, 2010.

Worldwide sales territories of the RISO Group (excluding
Japan)

P.13

̶Obtain a certification for the Japan wide-area implementationof the standardized framework and practices of used productrecovery and recycling by March 31, 2010.

̶

P.13

Fiscal 2009 was the final year for activities with set
goals.
From fiscal 2010 onward, pursue continuous
improvements through the administration of theestablished systems and schemes.

Global procurement of raw materials and components
for RISO products; providers of these raw materials andcomponents (currently, Japan and China only)

P.18

Promote sale of environment-friendly digital
duplicators.

Japanese markets.
RISO printing equipment, including OEM products, andamong these, those that comply with the Law on
Promoting Green Purchasing.

Fiscal 2009 was the final year for activities with set goals.
From fiscal 2010 onward, pursue continuous
improvements through the administration of the establishedsystems and schemes.

Operations of the RISO Group, including domestic andoverseas subsidiaries, throughout the world.

Fiscal 2009 was the final year for activities with set goals.
From fiscal 2010 onward, pursue continuous
improvements through the administration of the establishedsystems and schemes.

Japan.

Fiscal 2009 was the final year for activities with set goals.
From fiscal 2010 onward, pursue continuous
improvements through the administration of the establishedsystems and schemes.

RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION employees.

FY09 Achievements

For all RISO production bases, CO2 emissions
per unit cost of production were 0.1223, andCO2 emissions decreased 168 tons from thefiscal 2008 level. RISO was able to achieve
the goal set for these reductions.
For RISO’s operations in Japan, CO2
emissions per unit of net sales were 0.1384,
and CO2 emissions decreased 195 tons fromthe fiscal 2008 level. RISO was unable toachieve the goal set for these reductions.
For all industrial waste generated by RISO in
Japan, the specific final waste disposal rate*2
was 3.1%, not meeting the fiscal 2009 goal.
However, the rate improved 3.3 percentage
points from the 14.6% recorded in fiscal 2008.

̶

Rating

FY10 Environmental Goal

○

△

P.14

P.12

contained in products

RISO conducted studies on the chemical
substances used in its products that are regulatedby the EU REACH Regulation and has
consequently determined which of those requirepreliminary registration under the regulation. The
Company completed the preliminary registration of
applicable chemical substances in December 2008.
RISO was unable to accomplish the fiscal
2009 goal.
Achievement rate: 67.7% (YoY: 94.2%)
RISO completed a framework to grasp the environmentalload data of its overseas production bases.
The Shanghai Branch Plant of RISO TECHNOLOGYZHUHAI CO., LTD. in China acquired the ISO 14001
certification in May 2009. (Inspection in February 2009)
Sustainability Report 2008 was published in Japaneseon July 15, 2008. Third-party evaluation of the report
was favorable.
RISO revised the “Environmental Activities” section on
its English Website on May 23, 2008.
Sustainability Report 2008 was translated into English.

RISO conducted internal auditor training to
improve the quality of environmental audits.
However, training for non-auditing generalmanagers (managerial staff) has been
postponed until fiscal 2010.

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P.21

P.19

P.24

P.24

*1 Specific final waste disposal rate : RISO calculates the amount of specific final waste disposal as the total of the amount of waste incinerated, the residue and ashes resulting from recycling
processes and used for landfill, and other waste used directly for landfill. Then, RISO calculates the specific final waste disposal rate as the ratio of the specific final waste disposal amount to thetotal waste it generates, including valuable and recyclable substances. RISO recognizes the incineration of waste as an inefficient treatment of resources. Therefore, the amount of waste
incinerated is included in the amount of other waste directly used for landfill.

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The Company’s Environmental Conservation

Environmental education and information disclosure
We actively implement educational programs to deepen employee insight on environmental issues. We also openly
disclose information on environmental issues without hesitation and aim to further reduce environmental burden incooperation with other community members.

Environmental Education
RISO provides environmental education programs for its
employees to raise their environmental awareness andpromote their proactive activities to help protect theenvironment. These programs nurture participants’in-depth insight into environmental regulations andin-house environmental audit procedures.
In addition , the Company works to disseminate its
environmental policy while announcing the status of
department-specific activities as well as Companywide
environmental data, objectives and goals in a timely
manner. Specific initiatives to enable suchannouncements and dissemination include the use ofeasy-to-access bulletin boards in plants and offices andthe Company’s intranet.
In fiscal 2009, we implemented our Basic
Environmental Education Program in an e-learning format
for 330 individuals, encompassing new and mid-career
employees as well as those who have not taken thisprogram previously.

RISO Environmental Education Programs(Fiscal 2009)
Events Participants Hours

Type(times)(person)(aggregate)

Basic Environmental Education Program (e-learning)

1

330

247.5

Basic Environmental Education Program

11

35

22.5

Internal auditor training

6

134

578.6

EMS activity program (waste sorting)

12

208

257.3

Accident/emergency drill

13

116

99

Disaster drill

5

834

831.8

Legal qualification program

1

1

0

Business skill program

12

58

32

Advanced business skill program

6

221

744

Workplace health and safety program

2

36

22.3

Total

69

1,973

2,835

* The table above only shows data relating to environmental programs.

Publication of Sustainability Reports:
RISO issued its first environmental report ("Environmental
Report 2004") in August 2004. Since then, RISO has
issued reports annually to introduce others to its
environmental and social contribution efforts. (Available
only in Japanese)
The reportcontains aquestionnaire forobtainingcustomerfeedback, which
Sustainability Report 200824

will be used in the production of next year’s report.
RISO has received 12 replies to a questionnaire in
Sustainability Report 2008, published in July 2008. The
replies to this questionnaire are reflected in the current
report.

Questionnaire Feedback• Summary of Responses
Responses regarding “Reader-friendliness” in thequestionnaire for Sustainability Report 2008 are as
follows.
Very easy to understand: 4 people
Easy to understand: 6 people
Difficult to understand: 1 person
Very difficult to understand: 1 person• Opinions“I felt that this report was somewhat technical overall,or too formal. I would like to see it written in a simpler
manner.”“I would like to know how products are used.”
These are examples of the feedback we received.
• RISO’s Reaction
Taking into account reader feedback during thedrafting of this report, the “Special Features” sectionuses an easy-to-understand visual format to showcase
the environmental aspects of a new product and therecovery and recycling of used products.
The “Summary of RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION”
section features illustrations to explain the overview of
the Company’s business and graphs to display the useof RISO products and RISO’s market share.
In addition, we revised the pagination of this report andorganized explanations, achievements and reporting inaccordance with items of our environmental policies(RISO Environmental Charter and RISO Environmental
Protection Principles) while compiling detailed data inthe “Facts” section found in the second half of thisreport.

Introduction of Web Site
RISO’s efforts to address the environment are also
explained on its Web site. Aside from containing various
kinds of environmental information, including productsthat conform to the Law on Promoting Green Purchasing,reports can be downloaded in
PDF format.
We also updated ourEnglish Website in May 2008.

Web

Japanese Website: http://www.riso.co.jp/eco/English Website: http://www.riso.co.jp/english/eco/Participation in Environmental Events
We actively participate in environmental events in order tocommunicate our environmental initiatives to a wider
cross section of society.
In addition to the Eco-Products 2008 Exhibition andEnviro-Shiga 2008, RISO exhibited at the Tohoku
Eco-Products Exhibition 2008 and the Kankyo Manga(“Environmental Cartoon”) Exhibition in fiscal 2009 to
introduce the Company’s environment-friendly products
and environmental efforts.
Eco-Products 2007 Exhibition
Eco-Products Exhibition is an exhibition that started out in
1999, and it has grown to be one of the largest
environment-related events in Japan.
RISO has participated in this exhibition every year since
its start.
The exhibition, “We can do it!: eco-lifestyle with a 50%
reduction,” was held over a three-day period from
December 11 to 13, 2008, featuring exhibits from over
750 organizations and groups, including businesses,
non-profit organizations and academic and governmentalorganizations from a variety of fields.
RISO displayed the print-on-demand ORPHIS
HC5500 printer’s three environment-friendly features—saves time, paper and stock—through exhibit panels anda printing demonstration.
Enviro-Shiga 2008
Enviro-Shiga 2008 is an environmental industry
tradeshow that will reach its 11th anniversary this year. In
fiscal 2009, this event was held over three days between
November 5 and 7 with the theme: This Is Where New
Environmental Businesses Are Born.
RISO exhibited the environment-friendly features of the
RISO digital duplicators and the print-on-demand
HC5500 printer jointly with Kobayashi Jimuki.
Tohoku Eco-Products Exhibition 2008
Tohoku Eco-Products Exhibition 2008 is the Tohoku
region’s largest environmental exhibition.
At the event, which was held from October 9 to 11,
2008, RISO exhibited such products as theprint-on-demand HC5500 printer, while introducing its
used product recovery framework for the RISOGRAPH
RE33Z digital duplicator* and RISO SOYINK.
*Marketed only in Japan.

Kankyo Manga Exhibition
Held from May 13 to 25, 2008 and hosted by the
Association of Manga Artists for the Protection of theEnvironment, the Kankyo Manga Exhibition displays

environment-themed manga artwork.
RISO cooperated with the organizers of this exhibition
while displaying illustrations of its environmental initiatives.

Disclosing Environmental Labeling Information
Based on the increasing need for environment-friendly
products, RISO has been obtaining environmental labels
for its products, while promoting the proactive disclosureof information.
RISO provides products in Japan that comply with the
Law on Promoting Green Purchasing (see Note 1), Eco
Mark Program (see Note 2) and the International EnergyStar Program (see Note 3).
In addition to the Company Website, information on
environmental labels obtained for RISO products isavailable on the Websites of the Energy Conservation
Center, the Ministry of the Environment (a database of
eco-friendly goods and services under the Law on
Promoting Green Purchasing), the Japan Environment
Association Eco Mark Office, the Green Purchasing
Network and Green Station. This information can also befound in catalogs that feature Eco-Mark products.
RISO products sold overseas correspond to theInternational Energy Star Program, the Taiwan GreenMark Program (see Note 4) and the China Environmental
Labeling Program [Type II] (see Note 5).
Information contained on environmental labels for RISO
products sold globally is available on the Websites of
local subsidiaries as well as those of overseas
environmental organizations.
Web Products that qualify for environmental labels
http://www.riso.co.jp/english/eco/label/International
Energy Star Program

TaiwanGreen Mark Program

Eco-Mark

China Environmental
Labeling Program [Type II]

Note 1: Law on Promoting
GreenPurchasing-Compliant Products
Specified product procurement items
and criteria for products that arecompliant with the Law Concerning
the Promotion of Procurement of
Eco-Friendly Goods and Services by
the State and Other Entities (Law on
Promoting Green Purchasing)

Note 2: Eco-Mark Products
Products certified by the Japan
Environment Association inrecognition of their usefulness inpreserving the environment bydecreasing environmental burden
throughout the product lifecycle, frommanufacturing to disposal.

Note 3: International EnergyStar Program
Involving seven countries and regions
worldwide, this is an international
program that promotes energy
saving in office machines.
The program sets standards in termsof the power consumption of officemachines in each of the operation,
sleep and OFF modes, and it certifies
only those machines ranked among
the top 25% of all entries. Productsthat meet these standards areallowed to display the International
Energy Star Program Logo. (Fromthe ECCJ website)

Note 4: Taiwan Green Mark
Program
The Taiwan Green Mark Program,which is equivalent to Japan’s Eco
Mark Program, began in 1992 underthe management of the Environmentand Development Foundation (EDF),
an organization commissioned by
Taiwan’s Environmental Protection
Administration. Designated as a “TypeI” environmental label in Taiwan, thisprogram grants certifications as anindependent third party.

Note 5: China Environmental
Labeling Program [Type II]This environmental label program
began in China in 1994 and isadministered by the Ministry ofEnvironmental Protection.
The China Environmental Labeling
Program [Type II] is one in whichapproval to use these labels is
granted if a company’s environmental
proclamation meets ISO14021
standards following a review
conducted on the basis of thisproclamation.

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Social Initiatives
For Customers
Offering high-quality products and services that can be used with assurance, RISO is striving for better communication
with its customers to enhance customer satisfaction.

Note 1: ISO 9001
TAn international standard for quality
management systems
Scope of ISO 9001 certification
RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION
Headquarters*: (including Narashino
Service Center, Shimbashi-site andShibaura Office )Domestic Sales DivisionInternational Sales Division
Research & Development Division*
Production Division (including
Tsukuba Works, Ube Works andKasumigaura Works)* Some organizations are excluded fromthe scope of ISO 9001 certification.

RISO TECHNOLOGY ZHUHAI CO.,LTD

Quality Activities
Adhering to its fundamental philosophy of taking thecustomer’s point of view, RISO engages in the provisionof high-quality products and services.
In addition, RISO regards its management and daily
business operations as representing an important qualitythat is embodied in the products and services that areprovided to its customers. The Company has thus
acquired ISO 9001 certification (See Note 1) andpromotes the establishment of a framework to accurately
gauge and assess the quality of its operations.
In accordance with its basic philosophy and attitudes
toward quality, RISO established the RISO Quality Policy,
which is followed on a Companywide basis.

conducts the final confirmation of the safety of new
products prior to their launch.
In addition, we have established a framework underwhich accidents at customers’ workplaces andcomplaints from customers are reported immediately tous, and feedback is consequently provided to our designand development departments.
Furthermore, in line with the implementation of theConsumer Product Safety Law in Japan, RISO reinforced
its internal education programs focusing on the safety of
consumers.
These initiatives have improved the awareness of ouremployees regarding the importance of feedback from
customers on product safety. Also, the number of reports
from the market relating to problems with safety of RISO
products increased from seven in fiscal 2008 to 13 infiscal 2009.

RISO Quality Policy
Having as its basic philosophy contributing tosociety through the development of quality
products, RISO will make Companywide efforts topromote the formulation of a corporate structure toconsistently provide high-quality products andservices.
Accordingly, RISO drew up the following quality
policy:1. In order to flexibly respond to changing socialand market environments, RISO will predict
future trends to offer next-generation products
and services.
2. RISO will offer reliable products and services
with assured quality and safety, while thoroughly
cutting costs and strictly meeting delivery dates.
3. Placing the top priority on its customers, RISO
will offer products and services that provide
customer satisfaction.
4. Strictly complying with laws and regulations,
RISO will make ongoing efforts to enhance theeffectiveness of its quality management system.
Enacted: October 1, 2002
Revised: April 1, 2007

Akira Hayama
President & C.E.O.
RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION

Ensuring Product Safety
In accordance with the Guidelines for Formulating
Voluntary Action Plans Regarding Product Safety issued
by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, RISO is
working to strengthen its control structure to ensure
product safety.
As part of such efforts, the Company established a
Product Safety Checkup Committee in May 2008.
Composed of related departments, this committee

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Communication with Customers
RISO Contact Center Opened
At RISO, user support services are increasingly becoming
diversified and complicated. In response to such anenvironment, RISO has integrated its four-pronged user
support services—namely, hardware support, software
support, consumables order reception and counter
services—into a RISO Contact Center located in
Okinawa Prefecture. Having started operations in
February 2009, the RISO Contact Center is helping us tofurther enhance our already-established, reliable,user-support structure.
We are proactively reflecting user feedback andrequests received by the RISO Contact Center in our
activities, aiming to improve customer satisfaction.
User questions and inquiries regarding RISO products
and services can be made through the “Contact Us” pageon the Company’s Website or through a toll-free phoneservice in Japan (fee-based service for some regions).
Web The “Contact Us” page on the Company’s Website
http://www.riso.co.jp/english/home/info_form.html

RISO Contact CenterImplementation of Customer Satisfaction Survey
RISO reflects customer feedback in its products andservices and, in order to improve customer satisfaction,
has been conducting customer satisfaction surveys.
In fiscal 2009, the Company conducted a customer
satisfaction survey for in France, the United Kingdom,
Spain, the United States, and Hong Kong.
Through the survey, many respondents havecommented that RISO products have contributed to
improving operational efficiency and reducing printing
costs as well as to creating well-organized, colorful
documents that are easier to read.
Meanwhile, we have received a customer commentthat the RISO Website does not provide sufficient
information regarding product troubleshooting. At thesame time, the survey has revealed that customers show
different levels of satisfaction in the Company’s sales
representatives, depending on the country. Naturally,
these are matters to be attended to and improved.
To effectively reflect such customer feedback andcomments in its business activities, RISO is constantly
working to improve the methods used in its customer
satisfaction survey.
In addition to customer satisfaction surveys, we value
the customer voices that we gather through our sales
and service representatives and the RISO Contact
Center, thereby helping to continuously enhance thequality of our products and services.

Personal Information Protection Activities
In order to properly protect personal information
entrusted to RISO—by, for example, its customers,
business partners and shareholders—RISO has instituted
a Personal Information Protection Policy and taken
reasonable protective measures to guard against the useof personal information for purposes other than thoseintended, as well as against the leak, loss and damage ofsaid information.
This protection system conforms to JISQ15001(Personal information protection management systems—
Requirements) (see Note 2), and authorization to use theprivacy mark was received from the Japan Information
Processing Development Corporation (JIPDEC) on March
9, 2004, and extended in 2008.
In order to thoroughly protect customer information,
rules concerning personal information protection havebeen posted on the Company’s Intranet and every year
employees receive training in the handling of personal
information.
During fiscal 2009, the Company set new rules
concerning personal information protection to strengthen
personal information management. These new rules
include detailed procedures for destroying unnecessary

personal information as well as standards in selecting
contractors who processes waste that contain any typeof personal information.

Note 2: JISQ15001
Established in 1999 for the purposeof protecting personal information,
JISQ15001 is the standard based on
which Japan’s Personal Information
Protection Act was enacted.
Voluntary efforts are important in theprotection of personal information inbusiness activities; therefore RISO
have put in place an integrated,
Companywide management systemframework and established therequisite conditions.

Principles of personal data protection
We, RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION, engage in business activities that contribute tofurther development of society in communications culture by researching, developing andsupplying such products, which will touch and make a strong impression on ourcustomers.
Personal information of our customers, corporate clients, shareholders, employees andother stakeholders that we handle in the process of fulfilling our business is an important
asset for both of our stakeholders and us. Recognizing that we have an obligation to treatsuch personal information appropriately, we will use our best endeavor to protect such
personal information based on the following principles:
1. We collect, use and provide your personal information only to the extent necessary forachieving our business objectives.
2. We collect your personal information only when we receive your agreement after
specifying the purpose of collecting your personal information depending on eachcircumstance and/or method of collection or when we notify you of or announce
publicly the purpose of use, or when the purpose of use is clear from thecircumstances in which your personal information is collected.
3. We never use your personal information, for any purposes other than those specified orare clear from the circumstances in which your personal information is collected. And
we will use our best endeavor to take possible measures to ensure that your personal
information will not be used for any other purposes than those mentioned above.
4. We never provide your personal information to any third party, save that we havereasonable backgrounds such as your prior consent or any requirements to do so by
any law and/or regulation.
5. We use our best endeavor to take reasonable preventive countermeasures against any
loss, leakage or damage of your personal information in order to ensure security
thereof. In the case of an unforeseen accident, we use our best endeavor to take anappropriate collective action.
6. At your request, we will respond conscientiously and swiftly to your inquiry, such asquestions about your personal information or any requests for disclosure or any claim
about your personal information.
7. We obey any laws, regulations and/or orders relating to personal information protection.
8. We use our best endeavor to enhance acknowledgment of our company staff about
importance of personal information protection through education and enlightenment.
9. We use our best endeavor to manage personal information properly by appointing a
responsible person at each department concerned.
10. We continuously improve our compliance program related to personal information
protection.
Established on March 12, 2003
Revised on April 8, 2008

Akira Hayama
President & C.E.O.
RISO KAGAKU CORPORATIO

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Social Initiatives

For Shareholders and Investors
Offering high-quality products and services that can be used with assurance, RISO is striving for better communication
with its customers to enhance customer satisfaction.

Note 1: Information
Disclosure Procedures
Formulated October 1, 2007
• Systems to enable timely andaccurate disclosure ofmanagement-related information—
both legally required andvoluntary—and procedures for theadministration of the systems• Roles of the Information Disclosure
Committee (established in June
2006), including the collection of
information and the preparation of
opinions and reports for theCompany’ s top management
regarding disclosure decisions,content and timing• Decision-making processes
regarding the use of EDINET or
TDnet, depending on the type of
information

Communications with Shareholders
With the aim of allowing its shareholders to thoroughly
examine agenda items to be discussed at a general
meeting of shareholders, RISO sends out convocation
letters to them at least three weeks before the meetingdate. This facilitates smooth execution of their voting
rights.
For shareholders’ meetings, RISO prepares visuallyeffective materials using graphs and photos. Throughthese materials and other measures, we strive tocommunicate our business results and other information
in a shareholder-friendly manner.

IR Activities
As timely, reliable and proactive information disclosure isof particular importance in corporate activities, RISO
posts its Information Disclosure Policy on its Website.
With the aim of maintaining a structure that enables theeffective implementation of this policy, the Company
administrates its Information Disclosure Procedures (seeNote 1).
The Company discloses financial and stock
information on its Web site by posting financial results,
conference materials and business reports for individual
investors. Meanwhile, the Company holds annual
conferences for analysts and institutional investors after
the announcement of interim and full-year results.
At these conferences, RISO’s president gives apresentation, and audio narrations from the presentation
are distributed through the RISO Website (Japanese only).
Also, as of April 1, 2008, RISO renewed its Website byreorganizing the overall site for better information
accessibility and improving the “Corporate Profile” section.

Dividend Policy
In distributing earnings to shareholders, RISO adheres to
its basic policy of allocating an appropriate portion of
earnings as a dividend in accordance with businessresults while retaining the means to strengthen its
corporate structure. The Company strives to provide astable dividend based on this policy.
For fiscal 2008, RISO posted a non-consolidated net
loss. However, with particular emphasis placed oncontinuing stable dividend payouts, and with due
consideration given to its current financial standing andbusiness outlook for fiscal 2010, the Company paid a
per-share dividend totaling ¥40.
As a result, the consolidated payout ratio for fiscal
2009 stood at 63.8%, while the consolidated dividend on
equity ratio (DOE) was 1.5%.
RISO views repurchases of its own shares as a meansof distributing earnings. Prior to conducting share
repurchases, the Company gives due consideration to
stock price levels and market conditions.
Based on this concept, in fiscal 2009 RISO
repurchased a total of 572,000 shares from the market
for a total repurchase price of \665 million.
Also, the Company retired 1,410,000 of its own
shares—approximately 5% of the total number of sharesissued—in July 2008.
We plan to strategically repurchase and retire our own
shares, taking into account the balance of treasury stockand future financing policies.

Information Disclosure Policy
1. Basic Policy
RISO shall adhere to fair information disclosure in accordance with the Financial Instruments and Exchange Law and other relevantlaws and regulations as well as with disclosure-related stock exchange regulations.
Even outside of these legal requirements and regulations, the Company strives to proactively disclose information that is deemeduseful to enable shareholders and investors to build a better understanding.

2. Information Disclosure Methods
Depending on the type of information, RISO shall disclose information through either the Electronic Disclosure for Investors' NETwork(EDINET) of the Financial Services Agency (FSA) or the Timely Disclosure network (TDnet) of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE).
In the case of disclosures via TDnet, RISO shall announce information to media organizations through the Kabuto Club, TSE’s pressclub, and then post the information on its Web site.

3. Disclaimer Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
Documents and Web site content published by RISO include performance forecasts, plans, future strategies, goals and otherforward-looking statements.
RISO prepares such statements, excluding historical facts, based on information available to it as of the date of their preparation.
A myriad risks and uncertainties, including changes in economic and business environments, may cause actual results to differ fromthese statements.

4. Quiet Period
With the aim of preventing leaks of information relating to its financial results and thereby achieving fair disclosure, RISO defines theperiod between the day immediately following the closing dates (including those for quarterly and interim periods) and the dates ofpublic announcements as quiet periods. During such periods, the Company shall refrain from making comments and answering
questions regarding its financial results.

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Social Initiatives

For Local Communities
RISO will promote reliable corporate activities through the communication with local communities.

Social Contribution Activities
RISO understands the true meaning of being an integral
member of the global community. Based on thisunderstanding, the Company provides students with
opportunities to learn about environment-friendly
printing—an area of expertise for the Company. Throughthis and other social contribution activities, we aim to help
pass on a sound natural environment to future generations.
Environmental Learning Support
RISO views printing as an important form ofcommunication. Using the opportunities provided by its
participation and cooperation in environmental education,
learning sessions, and seminars at schools, RISO
disseminates information relating to environment-friendly
printing.
RISO gives presentations about the environment to
students and introduces environmental learning tools andeducational programs to teachers.

Case 1 Kawasaki Municipal Masugata Junior High School,
Kanagawa Prefecture
RISO has cooperated on the environmental education
program at Masugata Junior High School since 2004.
In fiscal 2009, RISO cooperated on and participated in
Masugata Junior High School's energy environmental
education workshop and forum held on December 19,
2008.
Following a “printing” theme, which is closely related to
RISO’s business, the Company gave a presentation to
students about the role of printing in effective
communication, the natural resources used in printing,and printing with low environmental burden.
In addition, RISO presented a mimeograph—an inventionof Thomas Alva Edison—by means of a hands-on session,
disseminating the importance of environmental protection.

Case 2 Koshigaya Municipal Obukuro-Higashi
Elementary School, Saitama Prefecture
On June 10, 2008, a public environmental event, dubbed
Eco Festival, was held at Obukuro-Higashi Elementary
School. Twenty organizations and corporations
participated in this event.
At the event, RISO made a presentation on the theme ofenvironment-friendly printers and SOYINK, explaining tostudents and other attendees the difference between
petroleum- and soybean oil-based inks in terms of resource
consumption as well as the recycling of used ink bottles.
Also, as a hands-on session using RISO SOYINK, we
distributed business cards on which each attendee’s
environmental action plan was printed, as acommemorative item.

Communicating with Local Communities
Recognizing the importance of communication with local
communities, RISO proactively conducts
community-based social contribution activities.
In Japan, RISO employees visit landowners andneighbors of the Company’s plants and other businessbases twice a year and hear their complaints andrequests. The Company reflects these complaints andcomments in its business and other activities in order toeffect constant improvements.
Also, as a member of corporate networks in eachregion where it operates, RISO actively participates inregional cleanup activities and traffic safety campaigns.
Through collaboration with other corporations and local
communities, the Company is contributing to theimprovement of the overall environment in thesecommunities.

Cleanup activities

Donating/Sponsored Activities
To establish a better society RISO makes donations tovarious organizations that conduct disaster recovery,
educational support and environmental preservation
activities.
In April, 2008, RISO donated a RISO digital duplicator
to commemorate the opening of a Japanese school in
Shenzhen, China.
Also, to aid disaster relief efforts for the Szechuan
earthquake that occurred in May 2008, RISO hadcollected a total of \4.74 million from its Groupwide
employees as of July 16, 2008. The money collected has
been donated through the Japanese Red Cross Society,
the China Red Cross Society Zhuhai, an educational fundbased in Chengdu, Szechuan Province, China and otherphilanthropic organizations.
In addition to these activities, during fiscal 2009, RISO
extended its support to various organizations, including
the RISO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (See Note1); a
number of educational institutions; an NPO that engages
in the distribution of the Midori no Komichi Environment
Diary (see Note 2) andthe promotion of the
Kids’ ISO Program (SeeNote3); and the Tokyo
Metropolitan
Government.

Note 1: RISO EDUCATIONAL
FOUNDATION
Dedicated to establishing heartfelt
communication at schools, inhouseholds and in local
communities, RISO EDUCATIONAL
FOUNDATION conducts activities inpursuit of educational methods that
foster well-rounded characters aswell as better classroom
communication.
Major activities include holding the“Sodate Print Communication”
contest, promoting printing
equipment, as well as research andstudy regarding printing media.

Note 2: Midori no Komichi
Environment Diary
This is an environmental project run
by Green Cross Japan. Midori no
Komichi Environment Diary
notebooks are distributed toelementary school students. The
students who receive a notebook
keep a diary to help them toproactively learn about theenvironment. The project aims to
make the younger generation act
with a clear awareness ofenvironmental protection.

Note 3: Kids’ ISO Program
An environmental education program
authorized by the International
Organization for Standardization (ISO)and promoted by the International Art& Technology Cooperation
Organization (ArTech) both in Japanand overseas.
In Japan, Kids’ ISO Program is
supported by the Ministry of theEnvironment, Ministry of Education,
Culture, Sports, Science andTechnology and the Japanese
National Commission for UNESCO.
Overseas, it is sponsored by theUnited Nations University and the UN
Environment Program.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government,
which has been promoting the Kids’
ISO Program for senior children atelementary school since 2005, offers
learning materials that enable
students to gain first-handexperience of environmental
management and measures against
global warming.
Agreeing with the Tokyo Metropolitan
Government’s idea to promote Kids’
ISO Program, RISO makes adonation as a sponsor company.

Donation of a RISO digital duplicator

29Social Initiatives

For Employees
Regarding each and every one of RISO employees as an indispensable asset, the Company works to nurture its humanresources and maintain employee-friendly workplace environments.

Employment
Of RISO’s domestic employees in fiscal 2009, 79% weremale and 21% female. Remaining in compliance with the
Law for Equal Employment Opportunity for Men and
Women and other labor-related laws and regulations,
RISO is steadfast in the appropriate employment of its
employees.

Number of Employees (Japan)■Male ■Female (People)

2,000
1,624

1,619

1,604

1,658

1,723

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

1,500
1,000
500
0

(FY)

* The data presented in the graph above is based on regular employees,
part-time employees, temporary employees and contract employees,
including those seconded to sales subsidiaries and expatriates at overseas
locations but excluding those who retired as of March 31 of each fiscal year.

Employment Trends■New graduates ■Mid-career (People)

150

129

120

114

90
60

116

95
51

30
0

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

(FY)

* The data presented in the graph above excludes part-time employees andtemporary employees reemployed after their retirement.

Post-Retirement Reemployment System
In cases where retiring employees in good health haveattained a certain level of performance and haveexpressed a desire to continue working after retirement,
RISO reemploys them on condition that they agree with
the new assignments and working conditions that theCompany offers them.
As of March 31, 2009, RISO has reemployed a total ofnine retired workers.
Senior Employee Employment System
In April 2007, RISO formulated and began to administer
its Senior Professional Contract Employment Guidelines.
These guidelines enable the external hiring of people
aged between 55 and 64 who possess exceptional skills
and experience.

Personnel and Other Systems
Since the introduction of the current ability-based grade
system in 1998, RISO has worked to promote theself-development of its employees through objective

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management and performance evaluations. Meanwhile,
the Company is endeavoring to create workplaceenvironments in which each employee can display his or
her capabilities to the full.
Also, RISO has established various leave systems.
Under these systems, RISO employees can use theirleave for family nursing care.
Childcare Leave System
In 1992, RISO established a childcare leave system,
which both male and female employees are entitled touse. In addition, employees with children aged two andyounger are eligible to use a short-time working system.
During fiscal 2009, a total of 28 employees used thechildcare leave system. These 28 employees collectively
used a total of 2,816 leave days under the system. The
number of employees using the reduced-hours work
system totaled 22 for the same period.
Supporting Child-Rearing Employees
In February 2009, RISO started a program to support
employees who are engaged in child-rearing.
Employees taking maternal or child-rearing leave tend
to struggle with loneliness, as they are separated fromtheir company and organization.
Some employees try very hard to balance theirchild-rearing and work responsibilities, often experiencing
the new worry of losing a good work-life balance.
In response to situations such as these that are faced
by its employees, RISO has created a program for
employees who are going through the experience ofchildbirth or child-rearing. Through this program, such
employees can mingle with one and other, providing
mutual, psychological support.
Many participants of the program have commented,
Balancing child-rearing and work responsibilities is harderthan you think. This program really helps, particularly
through the promotion of communication among
employees with similar experience.
In-House Awards System
As a development-driven company, RISO established a
special incentive system in June 2001 to encourage its
employees to be creative and innovative. Under thissystem, the previous fiscal year is set as the evaluation
period. The Company honors employees who havesignificantly contributed to its performance by presenting
prizes in line with internal rules.
In fiscal 2009, 42 awards were given to a total of 132
employees, in recognition of improvement activities on
the production frontlines, new product developmentusing innovative ideas and technologies, and marketing
activities based on unique know-how.

Education System
In addition to on-the-job training (OJT) provided throughdaily operations for business skill upgrading, RISO offers
its employees a variety of education and training
opportunities. These include position- anddepartment-specific education and training as well as
age group-specific programs to enable employees tomake career and life plans.
Also, by providing e-learning programs aimed at
employee self-development, the Company is supporting
efficient and effective learning.
In fiscal 2007, RISO established a cash award systemfor employees who acquire qualifications andcertifications. This system is aimed at financially
supporting enthusiastic employees and encouraging
them to develop and improve their business and otherspecialized skills.
Based on this system, when an employee acquires a
specified qualification or certification, the Company
provides a cash award ranging from \3,000 to \120,000,
depending on the type of qualification and certification.
During fiscal 2009, RISO presented a total of 140 awards.

Employee Awareness Survey
With the aim of improving employee satisfaction with theCompany and facilitating workplace communication,
RISO conducts the Employee Awareness Survey every
three years.
In fiscal 2009, the third survey was conducted, andapproximately 90% of all RISO employees contributed
effective responses.
Compared with the past two surveys, employee
satisfaction with RISO has generally improved. Of
particular note: about 90% of all the respondents
commented that they would like to keep working for
RISO.

with e-learning programs to find out about mental healthissues (see Note 1).
These e-learning programs are offered in two versions:
one for managerial personnel and the other focusing on
mental self-care for general and temporary personnel. A
total of 561 employees participated in the program during
fiscal 2009.
RISO’s Intranet provides a page dedicated tooccupational health and safety. The Company uses thepage’s content to educate its employees anddisseminate the importance of the subjects covered.

RISO has established an Occupational Health and Safety
Committee at each of its production bases. With thecommittees serving as front-line drivers, the Company isworking to prevent accidents and disasters through themaintenance of clean and safe workplaces, theidentification and improvement of safety issues and thepromotion of voluntary safety activities. (See Note 1.)
During fiscal 2009, 5 industrial accidents occurred at
RISO’s domestic business bases, representing a
year-on-year decrease of 6, for a frequency rate of 1.40
and a severity rate of 0.00 (see Note 3).
During the same period, the number of work-days lost
due to industrial accidents at domestic business bases
was zero. This figure shows that industrial accidents at
RISO are becoming increasingly minor in scale andnumber.

Industrial Accidents/Frequency and Severity Rates

15
12
9

Medical Checkups and Mental Health Management
RISO supports employees in their health management by
providing opportunities to take general health checkups,
lifestyle-related disease checkups and comprehensive
medical exams.
Also recognizing the importance of employees’ mental
health, the Company has conducted mental healthsurveys and established counseling services.
As both physical and mental health are required towork with vitality, the Company offered its employees theopportunity to receive a mental health checkup during
fiscal 2009. More specifically, we provided our employees

070.00240.0012
2006• Severity rate
This rate indicates the severity ofindustrial accidents and disasters
with the number of work-days lostper 1,000 working hours.
The average severity rate for principal
industries nationwide was 0.10, whilethat for the manufacturing industry
alone was 0.10. (Source: 2008
Survey on Industrial Accidents,
Ministry of Health, Labour andWelfare)

2

1.4

1

5

3

This rate indicates the frequency of
accidents and disasters that haveoccurred with the number of deaths
and injuries per 1 million working
hours.
The average frequency rate forprincipal industries nationwide was
1.75, while that for the manufacturingindustry alone was 1.12. (Source:
2008 Survey on Industrial Accidents,
Ministry of Health, Labour andWelfare)3
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Activities to ensure employee safety
by addressing risky behavior andother safety issues identified throughactual experiences.

4

2.06

2.04

Note 2：Voluntary safety
activities

Severity rate
5

3.19

6

Promotion of Employee HealthFrequency rate

Mental health management involves
activities to promote mental health aswell as to prevent and treat mental
disorders.

Note 3：• Frequency rate

Occupational Health and Safety■Number of industrial accidents
18

Note 1：Mental healthmanagement

2007

0.005

0.0007
2008

0

0
(FY)

2009

Aggregate working hours (hour)■Aggregate working hours (hour)
Number of work-days lost (day)40
4,000,000
3,578,016
3,444,288
3,430,929
3,403,384
3,000,000

30

2,000,000

20

1,000,000

4.1

10

8.2
2.5

0

2006

2007

2008

0
0
2009 (FY)31

Corporate Governance/Compliance
RISO acknowledges that corporate governance is a key issue for healthy business management.

Corporate GovernanceCorporate governance is generally
regarded as a management system
to maintain healthy and efficientbusiness activities.

departments, branches and subsidiaries in accordancewith the Internal Audit Regulations.

Corporate Governance System
RISO adopts a governance system for a corporate
auditor governance model company.
Managerial decisions are made based on deliberations at
the monthly Board of Directors’ meetings and extraordinary
Board of Directors’ meetings held when necessary.
In addition, business execution status is reported
based on the decision-making standards stipulated in theregulations for decision-making procedure.
Decision-making for business execution is conducted inaccordance with deliberation at an Executive Committee
meeting held twice a month, or by the president,
individual directors or general manager depending on thedecision-making standards.
The Board of Corporate Auditors is comprised of two
standing corporate auditors and two part-time external
corporate auditors (two CPAs) for fair and objective auditing.
All corporate auditors shall participate in the Board of
Directors' meetings in principle. Together with this,standing corporate auditors shall attend each important
in-house meeting, including Executive Committee
meetings, to fully audit executive function.
Furthermore, RISO has established an Internal Auditing
Department as its internal audit division and implements
accounting and business audits for its plants, sales

Internal Control over Financial Reporting
With the aim of maintaining the reliability of its financial
reporting in accordance with the stipulations of the
Financial Instruments and Exchange Law, RISO
self-evaluated its internal control structure in fiscal 2009.
Specifically, in June 2008, RISO’s Board of Directors
approved the Policies and Plans Concerning Internal
Control Self-Evaluation. The scope and procedures of theself-evaluation were in line with these policies and plans.
Prior to actual self-evaluation processes, the Company
selected internal evaluators from related departments andformed an Internal Control Self-Evaluation Project Teamconsisting of these evaluators under the direction of theInternal Control Promotion Office.
The Company plans to organize an Internal Control
Self-Evaluation Project Team every year as the main
promoter of related initiatives.
The results of the self-evaluation showed that there areno significant deficiencies that may have serious impact
on the financial reporting of the entire RISO Group (RISO
KAGAKU CORPORATION and its affiliates) as of March
31, 2009. Accordingly, RISO has concluded that theinternal control over financial reporting at the RISO Group

Corporate Governance Structure

represents selection and delegation
represents direction, reporting and auditing

Relationship between RISO’s corporate organization and internal control system

General Meeting of Shareholders
election/removal
election/
removalBoard of Directors
election/removal/delegation/supervisor

Executive
Committee

auditing

election/
removal/supervisor
reportingBoard ofCorporate
Auditors

direction
election/
removalcooperation

Risk /
Compliance Officer

reportingdirection

President and CEO
reportingInternal
Auditing Dept.

cooperationcooperation
reportingdirection

auditing
reportingreportingdirection

Directors and General Managers
responsible for business execution
Risk/
Compliance Committee

Accounting
Auditors

adviceCorporate
Attorneyauditing

Employees

Internal Notification：RISO set up a “Compliance Hotline” and a “Harassment Hotline” directly connecting to
the director responsible for risk/compliance for the purpose of providing consultation with employees andreceiving reports from employees.

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auditinghas been effective, as of the same date.
Also, the results of the said self-evaluation are auditedby the Company’s accounting auditor, KPMG AZSA &Co., who also serves as the auditor of RISO’s internal
control over financial reporting.
RISO disclosed the results of the self-evaluation andexternal audit in June 2009 through the Japanesepublication of a management’s report on internal control
over financial reporting and through an independent
auditor’s report on internal control over financial control.

Strict Observance of Compliance
RISO emphasizes compliance as the basis of business
management. Specifically, in conducting businessactivities based on the idea that it is an integral memberof society, RISO promotes compliance not only by
conforming to laws and Company regulations but also by
respecting corporate ethics and morals.
Specifically, based on the “Compliance Management
Rules”(See Note 1), the Board of Directors selects aperson to be in charge of risk and compliance, and underthat person's direction. The Risk/Compliance Committee
is established to promote its compliance activities.
In April 2008, RISO revised the wording and content of
the “RISO Compliance Guidelines”(See Note 2) andpublicized the revisions so that RISO Group employees
are able to take compliance action based on a common
understanding.
Compliance Education and Training
RISO distributes the Compliance Handbook to all
executives and employees so that they can understandand implement the Top Executive Declaration and the
RISO Compliance Guidelines.
In addition, a compliance page has been posted on
the corporate Intranet that addresses sample compliancecases that could arise within the Company and explains
specific points at issue so that appropriate complianceaction can be taken by employees.
In addition, in September 2008, the Company
conducted an e-learning program for all full-time
executives and employees to disseminate the importanceof regulating insider trading and to allow them to exercise
proper judgment to avoid insider trading.

Risk Management
Recognizing that there are various risks that interfere with
Company operations, managing such risks in an
integrated and rational manner comprises rigorouscompliance, and it is one of management’s mostimportant tasks.
Pursuant to the provisions under the Corporation Law,

RISO has instituted “Rules for Managing the Risk of Loss”
based on a resolution of its Board of Directors. At the sametime, the Company is developing a system for the integrated
management of various risks the RISO Group is facing.
With respect to important business and affairs of theCompany, including major investments, the divisions that
execute operations and related divisions analyze risks
associated with their execution of operations, and after
studying appropriate risk countermeasures, discuss andmake decisions about them at the Executive Committee
and Board of Directors’ meetings.
Furthermore, the Company established theRisk/Compliance Committee to respond to various risks
the RISO Group is facing.
The Risk and Compliance Committee identifies risks
while analyzing and evaluating the Company’s degree of
exposure to those risks in case they arise. Based on thisanalysis and evaluation, RISO creates a “risk map.”
Using this risk map, we identify those risks that would
have a major impact on the RISO Group. For any majorrisks identified, we formulate and implement individual
risk management programs. This approach enables us tominimize and avoid risks and to promote integrated risk
management.
Specific activities that RISO started in fiscal 2009 in linewith these risk management programs include theestablishment of a personal information management
system and the preparation of manuals for counteractionsin the event of earthquakes and other major disasters.
At the same time, at its production sites, RISO hasestablished the Disaster Prevention Committee, headedby the business manager, which is working to prevent
environmental pollution and operational disasters.
The Disaster Prevention Committee establishes anannual action plan for sites that are involved in disasterprevention and is working to reduce risk through theimplementation of comprehensive disaster training—assuming the outbreak of fires and earthquakes—
identification and improvement of unsafe locations andunsafe behavior, maintenance of equipment, drafting
accident and emergency response plans and training
implementation.
In fiscal 2009, no environment-related accidents orstates of emergency occurred.

Note 1: ComplianceManagement Rules
Establishes guidelines for promoting
compliance• As the officer bearing ultimate
responsibility, the President & CEO
declares as his Top Executive
Declaration that the Company isworking to implement complianceprograms, make continuous
improvements and maintaincompliance.
• Executives and employees are tofollow the RISO Compliance
Guidelines.
• Implementation of complianceprograms and an organizational
structure that includes a director, incharge of risk management andcompliance issues, and acommittee, for performing constantimprovements.
• Compliance program includes anaction plan, compliance education,compliance internal audits andcompliance assessment.
• Internal reporting (“Compliance
Hotline” and “Harassment Hotline”)
system.

Note 2: RISO Compliance
Guidelines
Establishes 27 action guidelines that
employees must follow. Furthermore,
if you are unable to decide whether abehavior is proper or not in light of
the Compliance Action Guidelines,
ask yourself the following fivequestions.
• Is “that behavior” in line with RISO
policy?
• What would you think if anotherperson displayed “that behavior”?
• Would your family or friends beashamed if they knew about “thatbehavior”?
• How would it reflect on you if “thatbehavior” appeared in a
newspaper story?
• Deep down in your heart, do you
consider “that behavior” to be
improper?

Information Risk Countermeasures
Information risk is one risk that can have a major impact
on business activities. The destruction, alteration or
external leak of confidential and personal information heldby the RISO Group would cause substantial losses for
the Group.
RISO had previously established an Information
Management Committee and has taken measures tohandle those information-related risks.

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FactsEnvironmental Burden

Scope of Calculation: The table of “Input/Output by Operational Process” on page 35.
Subject of Calculation: Japan
Energy consumption and resultant CO2 emissions, water consumption and wastewater discharge, and waste generation in the process of
product development, designing, and production.

INPUTOUTPUT
FY08

Changefrom FY08 (%)

FY09(10,000 kWh/yr)

902

Changefrom FY08 (%)

FY09

CO2 emissions(t-CO2/yr)

9,070

8,851

98

863

96

Electricity(t-CO2/yr)

5,007

4,790

96

Breakdown of energy consumption
Electricity

FY08

LPG

(t/yr)

62

63

102

LPG

(t-CO2/yr)

186

189

102

Bunker A(kl/yr)

155

150

97

Bunker A(t-CO2/yr)

420

407

97

Gasoline(Volume of contracted transport
Water consumption(kl/yr)

538

542

101

Gasoline(t-CO2/yr)

1,248

1,257

101

[10,000 tkm])

1,305

1,221

94

(Volume of contracted transport [t-CO2/yr])

2,209

2,208

100

(m3)

40,551

36,58090

Water drainage(m3)

27,36024,635

90

(m3)

8,300

7,436

90

(t)

16,474

15,566

94

52,13447,637

91

(kg)

12

35

292

PRTR substance emissions into the water (kg)

0

0

—

PRTR substance emissions into the soil (kg)

2

3

150

PRTR substances transferred as waste (kg)

36

15

42

3,670

3,854

105

(t)

2,319

2,447

106

Steam, water, etc. emissions

Plastic

(t)

1,651

1,537

93

Products*5

Glass

(t)

39

29

74

Paper

(t)

3,170

2,860

90

Other

(t)

Metal

Subtotal
PRTR substances

Volume recovered

(t)

(t)

4,404

4,184

95

52,13447,63791

Subtotal

2.6

2.3

88

PRTR substance emissions into the air

2,443

2,573

105

Waste generation*1(t)Volume transferred to recycling processes*7

(t)

439

348

79

Volume recycled*2

(t)

3,007

3,396

113

Other*3

(t)

81

41

51

Final disposal (landﬁll)*4

(t)

143

69

48

CO2 emissions calculation
In the conversion of energy consumption into greenhouse gas (CO2) emissions, RISO uses the following conversion factors deﬁned under Article 3 of the Cabinet
Order for the Law Concerning the Promotion of Measures to Cope with Global Warming (revised March 24, 2006).
Electricity: 0.555 kgCO2/kWh; gasoline: 2.32 kgCO2/l; Bunker A: 2.71 kgCO2/l; LPG: 3.00 kgCO2/kg

FY09 Environmental Performance
RISO accelerated efforts to recover used RISO products during ﬁscal 2009. As a result, the volume of used products recovered during the period
increased 5% from ﬁscal 2008.
RISO also stepped up efforts to recycle used RISO products. As a result, the volume of used products recycled increased 389 tons year on year, andthe ﬁnal waste disposal for landﬁll decreased 52% year on year.
CO2 emissions decreased 219 tons from ﬁscal 2008, attributable to bolstered energy-saving initiatives and production cutbacks.
Looking ahead, RISO will continue to promote initiatives aimed at reducing the environmental burden of its overall activities. In doing so, the Company,
as a manufacturer of digital printers and duplicators, recognizes that it is important to enhance environmental considerations in its products and toincrease the recycling rate through product recovery, material reuse and recycling, as well as to reduce landﬁll waste volume.
* RISO excluded fuel consumption by company vehicles from data calculation for the “Development and Designing” and “Production” categories in the table,“Input/Output by Operational Process,” on page 35. Therefore, the ﬁgures for these categories do not add up to the ﬁgures of CO2 emissions per unit of net sales,
which include fuel consumption by company vehicles and are set as Companywide environmental goals.

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Input/Output by Operational Process
INPUT

Operational Process

Development
and Designing
Scope of Calculation
R&D Technology Center (at Tsukuba Works)
K&I Development Center (at Wakaguri R&D Site)
S&A Development Center (in Tokuei Building)

OUTPUT

FY08

FY09

Scope of Calculation
Tsukuba Works (excluding R&D
Technology Center),Ube Works, Kasumigaura Works

FY08

FY09

Changefrom FY08 (%)

1,409

1,350

96

1,388

1,338

96

21

12

57

2,640

3,136

119

99

153

155

92

149

162

6

1

17

1

3

300

4,036

96

Energy consumption and CO2 emissions at the product development stage

Breakdown of energy consumption
Electricity(10,000 kWh/yr)
LPG(t/yr)
Water consumption
(m3)

250

241

7

4

2,640

3,136

* The volumes of water consumption andwastewater cannot be calculated
separately for the R&D Technology
Center. These volumes are included in the
total ﬁgure for Tsukuba Works provided in
the “Production” section below.

Production

Changefrom FY08 (%)

CO2 emissions(t-CO2/yr)
Electricity(t-CO2/yr)
57 LPG(t-CO2/yr)
119 Water drainage(m3)*1
Waste generation(t)Volume recycled*2(t)
Other*3(t)
Final disposal (landﬁll)*4(t)
96Volume of raw materials used, energy consumption, CO2 emissions and waste generation in the process of major
product*5 manufacturing

Breakdown of energy consumption
652
Electricity(10,000 kWh/yr)
55
LPG(t/yr)
155
Bunker A(kl/yr)
Water consumption(m3) 37,911
2,319
Metal
(t)
1,651
Plastic
(t)
39
Glass
(t)
3,170
Paper
(t)
4,404
Other
(t)
49,494
Subtotal
2.6
PRTR substances
(t)

622

95

59

107

4,204
CO2 emissions(t-CO2/yr)
3,619
Electricity(10,000 kWh/yr)
165
LPG(t/yr)
420
Bunker A(kl/yr)
Water drainage(m3) 24,720
Steam, water, etc. emissions (m3) 8,300
Products*5(t) 16,474

150

97

33,444

88

2,447

106

1,537

93

29

74

2,860

90

4,184

95

44,50190 Subtotal
88 PRTR substance emissions into the air

2.3

(kg)
PRTR substance emissions into the water (kg)
PRTR substance emissions into the soil (kg)
PRTR substances transferred as waste (kg)
Waste generation*1(t)Volume recycled*2(t)
Other*3(t)
Final disposal (landﬁll)*4
(t)

107

407

97

21,499

87

7,436

90

15,56694

44,501

90

12

35

292

0

0

—

2

3

150

36

15

42

1,128

1,128

100

1,023

1,080

106

75

40

53

30

8

27

Fuel consumption and CO2 emissions of vehicles used for sales and maintenance service activities for customers

Scope of Calculation
Domestic branches and subsidiaries

Breakdown of energy consumption
Gasoline(kl/yr)Volume of contracted transport*6(Volume of contracted transport [10,000 t∙km])

Scope of Calculation
Used products in Japan

95

177

49,494

Sales

Recovery,Reuse andRecycling

3,452

538

542

101

CO2 emissions
Gasoline(t-CO2/yr)

1,248

1,257

101

1,305

1,221

94

(Volume of contracted transport [t-CO2/yr])

2,209

2,208

100

(t-CO2/yr)

Volumes of used products’ recovery, reuse and recycling
Though RISO is promoting the effective use of recovered products, a part of such recovered products goes for landﬁll disposal.

Volume recovered

(t)

2,443

2,573

105 Waste generation*1

105

(t)

2,443

2,573

Volume transferred to recycling processes*7 (t)Volume recycled*2(t)
Other*3(t)
Final disposal (landﬁll)*4
(t)

439

348

79

1,892

2,167

115

0

0

—

112

58

52

*1 Waste generation : RISO considers all unwanted substances generated from its operational processes, including valuable resources and resources to be recycled or reused, as wastes.
*2 Volume recycled : Total volume of materials for recycling and thermal recycling, including valuable resources. The volume to be reused in operational processes is excluded.
*3 Other : The volume of materials for recycling and gas emissions from incineration.
*4 Final disposal (landﬁll) : The volume to be disposed of in landﬁll sites, which includes residues and incinerated ash from intermediate process recycling.
*5 Major products: ComColor high-speed color printers, RISO digital duplicators, and inks, masters and other supply products for ComColor and RISO digital duplicators.
*6 Volume of contracted transport using external carriers: Volume of contracted transport (for delivery, procurement, recovery, etc.) of products, parts, used products and waste.
*7 Volume transferred to recycling processes : The amount of recycled materials to be reused as raw materials in operational processes.

35FactsEnvironmental Accounting

Environmental Accounting Report
Term: Fiscal 2009 (April 1, 2008 to March 31, 2009)
Scope of Calculation: Scope of calculation: All of RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION’s domestic sites (Tsukuba Works, Kasumigaura Works, Ube Works, R&D Technology Center,
Wakaguri R&D Site, Narashino Service Center, Head Office and domestic sales branches)
For RISO’s sales network, “resource conservation and recycling” as well as “EMS establishment and maintenance activities” are in the scope of calculation.

Activities
Global Warming
Prevention Measure
Promotion of
Resource
Conservation andRecycling

Classification

Environmental Protection Activities

・Reduction of fuel consumption
・Reduction of electricity consumption

・Modal shifting・Introduction of energy-saving equipment

・Recycling of used products
・Recycling of wastes
・Safe disposal of wastes

・Recovery and recycling of used products
・Separation and recycling of wastes

・Publication of productenvironmental data・Publication of environmental
activities
・Clean-up and maintenance ofgreen areas

Observation of laws
(pollution control,
environmental
pollution control)・Observation of laws
(water, the atmosphere)

Green Procurement

・Collection of data relating to raw materials
and components and registration of suchdata on the green lists

Environmental
Communication
Green Areas

EMS establishment
and maintenanceactivities

・ISO・Investigation of the latest laws andregulations

Investment

Cost

3,163

145

0

3,250

478,028・Acquisition of environmental label
certification
・Publication of the environmental report・Participation in events and exhibitions

0

26,5220・Clean-up and maintenance of green areas

0

7,271

0

・Wastewater control
・Gas emissions control
・Inspection and maintenance of facilities

014,405

0

0

2,552

0

0

11,7730

3,395

540,551

399,158

・Acquisition and maintenance of ISO 14001
certification
・Check of the latest laws and regulations

Total(Thousands of yen)

Economic
EffectActions・CO2 Reduction during transportation
・Reduction of electricity consumption
・Cost reduction through reuse

395,995 ・Improvement of resource recovery ratio
・Acquisition of certifications under the
Eco Mark Program
・Participation in Eco-Products Exhibition

・Establishment of Environmental
Information System for raw materials
and components.
・Maintenance of the validity of
ISO 14001 certification

Calculation Method and Idea
Our calculations of the environmental protection costs and the economic effects are basically done in accordance with the “Environmental Account Guidebook (2005)” of the Ministry of the Environment.
However, the classification of costs is modified to our own standard. Also, expenses related to environmental protection costs do not include depreciation. The economic effects are based on income andcost decrease, both of which are considered to be actual effects (as they are calculated using actual figures), and not on presumed or estimated effects.
Ideally, the environmental protection costs relating to environment-friendly design should be listed in the chart above. However, due to the difficulty in accurately classifying such costs, they are not listed here.
Concerning Economic Effects* The economic effects in connection with recycled products have also been calculated since fiscal 2007.

Environmental Accounting Results for fiscal 2009 and the Past Three Years
RISO reduced its environmental protection costs in fiscal 2009, in comparison with fiscal 2008.
The breakdown by activity category does not show significant year-on-year change. Of particular note, however, is the fact that the volume ofmaterial reused, which provides a substantial economic effect, has declined in the recycling of used products. This situation has resulted in adecrease in the economic effect relating to resource conservation and recycling.
Meanwhile, costs associated with EMS establishment and maintenance activities increased year on year, primarily attributable to theacquisition of the ISO 14001 certification by a RISO plant in China.
The costs and economic effects in each activity category and classification tend to change every fiscal year. A good example of this would be
the costs for global warming prevention measures—an activity category in which facility investments in one year often eliminate the need for
additional investments for the following few years. By accurately grasping the amount of investments, costs and economic effects in each fiscal
year, we will continue to implement effective environmental protection activities.

Breakdown of Costs (Investment + Actual Costs)

Status of Environmental Accounting(Comparison of figures excluding development costs such as environmental design for products)(Thousands of yen)

FY2007(Thousands of yen)

FY2008FY2009FY2007

FY2008FY2009Global Warming Prevention Measure

7,787

8,007

145

Costs (investment + actual costs)

543,675

548,094

540,551

Promotion of Resource Conservation and Recycling

479,047

484,103481,278

Economic effect559,270

508,369

399,158

Environmental Communication

18,47028,37926,522

103

93

74

Economic effect ratio (%)

Green Areas

7,285

6,903

7,271

Observation of laws

19,654

11,934

14,405

Green Procurement

2,240

3,278

2,552

EMS establishment and maintenance activities

9,192

5,486

11,773

Breakdown of Economic Effect(Thousands of yen)

FY2007

FY2008FY2009Global Warming Prevention Measure

6,461

2,110

3,163

Promotion of Resource Conservation and Recycling

552,809506,259

395,995

Environmental communication and four other categorized activities do not have economic effects.

36Third-Party Evaluation
With the aim of enhancing the reliability and objectivity of its sustainability reports, RISO asked a third party to offer opinions regarding reportcontent and endeavored to incorporate those opinions into the production of the reports.
For the “Sustainability Report 2008,” the Company used TÜV Rheinland Japan Ltd., the same evaluator that conducted the third-party
evaluation of the “Sustainability Report 2007.”

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RISO KAGAKU CORPORATIONHead Office: 5-34-7 Shiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8385, Japan
Inquiries:

Environmental Activity Promotion Dept.
Te l. 029-889-2527
Fax. 029-889-2530
E-mail. info@riso.co.jp
URL: http://www.riso.co.jp/

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