FY2015 CSR Website CSR > Site Reports > Worksites > Kawasaki Plant

The Kawasaki Plant is located in Yako in southeastern Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture.
If you take the Keihin Kyuko Daishi Line and get off at Kojimashinden Station, the last stopon the line, you will also notice the very conspicuous Zeon house mark in addition to Zeon's
R&D Building No. 10, the highest-standing building in Yako. The Kawasaki Plant is situatedon the south side of the R&D center.
While the name Yako (literally “night light”) seems to suggest the bright lights and torches of
the Keihin Industrial Zone, this interpretation is in fact incorrect. The true origin of the word
relates to the construction of the Kawasaki Daishi temple, and comes from a phrase

Aerial view of the Kawasaki
Plantmeaning “ocean emitting a strange light at night.” Kawasaki Daishi is said to have originatedat a time when, long ago, a fisherman, heeding the instruction of a Buddhist monk who appeared in his dream, cast his net
where light was shining and pulled out a small statue of Kobo-Daishi, the founder of the Shingon school of Buddhism. TheKawasaki Plant was built here in 1959 and, for more than 56 years since, has built mutual relationships of trust with the localresidents. For example, its neighborhood clean-ups, summer festivals, and discussions with local residents at neighborhood
association meetings have helped the Kawasaki Plant to quietly blend in and function as an intimate and integral part of thelocal community.

The Kawasaki Plant values its interactions with the local community. Along with Kawasaki City and other local companies in
Yako, nearby Tonomachi and Chidori, we also participate in regular joint cleaning activities for the Tonomachi-Yako Route,which is a main road that acts as an artery for the area. In addition, during summer evening festivals we invite people fromnearby neighborhood associations and companies to enjoy local cooking of regional group members' proud. We will continue toharmonize with local communities through a variety of such activities,

1. Reducing toxic chemical emissions
The Kawasaki Plant is working to reduce emissions of butadiene and acrylonitrile, the main materials in our products, byinstalling recovery equipment. Stabilizing operations and improving the operational rate of recovery systems has allowed us toincrease the amount of acrylonitrile we process. As a result, atmospheric emissions of butadiene and acrylonitrile in fiscal 2014
were 2.6 tons and 11 tons, respectively. We will continue to improve our technologies so that someday we can achieve zeroemissions.

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Substances subject to PRTR law

2. Reducing industrial waste
We have maintained efforts throughout the plant to reduce the volume of plant-generated industrial waste by separating it forcollection and reusing or recycling it (including heat recovery). The volume of waste sent to landfills in fiscal 2013 was less than
1 ton as in the previous year, as a result of our diligence in reducing waste and introducing facilities to improve and stabilize
waste treatment. In fiscal 2015, we will continue to reduce industrial waste through separation and recycling and by reducing
waste.
Amount of Waste to Landfill

3. Reducing air and water pollution
By discontinuing the use of our incinerator, we have greatly reduced our output of nitrogen oxides (NOx), carbon monoxide (CO),soot, and other atmospheric emissions from our operations.
We are also decreasing our environmental impact on water quality by reducing nitrogenous compounds in waste liquid andimproving removal rates by ensuring that our treatment facilities are operating efficiently. We are determined to improve ourtechnologies to bring about less total nitrogen discharge and better removal rates.

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CO2 emissions

SOx and NOx emissions

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4. Saving resources and energy
In fiscal 2014, we launched operation of our newly installed Co-generation* system (CGS) units No. 5 and No. 6. The launch ofthese two units resulted in a surplus of power, which enabled us to make an even greater social contribution than before bystably supplying the energy externally.
With units No. 5 and No. 6, we are able to conserve energy and resources due to the use of a cutting-edge gas engine systemthat achieves a high level of thermal efficiency and low NOx emissions.
* Co-generation
A new type of energy supply system that uses waste heat from internal combustion engines, external combustion engines, and other sources to extract power, heat, and refrigeration while
improving overall energy efficiency.

Total amount of energy and Unit energy consumption index

5. Environmental Data
Kawasaki Plant
Butadiene consumption (tons)
Butadiene emissions (tons)
ToxicsubstancesAcrylonitrile consumption (tons)
Acrylonitrile emissions (tons)
Substances
Consumption (tons)
subject toAmount emitted (tons)
PRTR law
Amount generated (before volumereduction) (tons)
Industrial
Amount generated (after volume reduction)
waste(tons)
Amount sent to landfill (tons)
CO2 emissions (tons)
SOx emissions (tons)
Atmosphericemissions
NOx emissions (tons)
Soot emissions (tons)
Water resources (Industrial water + Ground water +3
Waterworks) consumption (1,000 m )3
Total waste water discharge (1,000 m )COD emissions (tons)
Waste water
Total phosphorus discharge (tons)
Total nitrogen discharge (tons)
Total consumption (crude oil equivalent, kL)
EnergyUnit consumption index (1990 = 100)
Production of PDR equivalent (tons)-4-

FY201026,613
4.8
12,03415
51,781FY2011
23,054
2.6
10,67012
46,186FY2012
22,841
2.7
10,872
13
44,709FY2013
20,3722.4
9,653
1140,203

FY201423,534
2.6
11,405
11
45,847

30

26

25.6

26.1

26.8

44,13247,71850,87848,03952,900

5,315

5,383

5,037

4,024

4,401

0.436,478
0.7
10
0.8

0.4
27,609
0.1
7.6
0.6

0.9
27,968
0.1
8.0
0.8

0.0
20,917
0.2
7.4
0.8

0.0
25,778
0.1
5.7
0.6

2,575

2,963

3,313

3,092

3,657

1,836
41
0.1
93
16,23978％
94,340

1,793
40
0.2
89
16,22090％
81,790

1,904
42
0.2
115
16,55291％
82,757

2,031
45
0.3
93
14,40675％
73,834

2,185
440.2
115
14,70084%85,441

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In line with Zeon's Mid-Term Management Plan, SZ-20, including the Enterprise Blueprint for 2020: “Zeon creates the future
today through the power of chemistry,” the Kawasaki Plant strives to produce the world's highest-quality products and supply asteady stream of those products to customers.
Quality as stated here includes cost, quantity, delivery period, and reliability. Consistently providing the high quality that ourcustomers require is both the mission and raison d'être of the Kawasaki Plant, which takes satisfaction in being harmoniously
integrated in urban surroundings. We also believe that our employees' pride in producing the best products in the world can be adriving force for further quality improvements.
VOICE Toward Higher Quality and More Stable Production
In its over 55 years of operations, the Kawasaki Plant has supplied its customers withoil-resistant and heat-resistant synthetic rubber, used in key automotive components andmore, and synthetic latex, which has various uses, including coated papers, nonwoven
fabrics, and rubber gloves. We see the stable production of high-quality products as animportant requirement for delivering these products to our customers for many decades tocome.
At the Kawasaki Plant, we are embarking on measures in order to further advance these

Sachio Hayashi, Kawasaki
Plant Manager

efforts and work to enhance our capacity in processes that are critical to product quality. In
other words, we will modify our production equipment and revise manufacturing conditions to reduce and ensure control overvariations in production. Through these efforts we will create systems with which anyone, at any time, following a standardized
method can reliably produce products with consistent quality. To reduce quality variations between product lots, we will improve
management of raw material quality and seek to build flexible production systems where seasonal and other variations have noimpact on quality.

Becoming a plant that is open and transparent
We are doing our best to help the public better understand our operations by extending plant
tours to technical college students in the Tohoku and Hokkaido regions and to nearby
neighborhood associations, while also introducing our products and our environmental andsafety activities. In addition, we continue active participation in events held locally.

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