Table of Contents
From Our Editors
Message from the President
Company Overview
Outline of Our Business
Management Philosophy/Environmental Policies
Corporate GovernanceManagement System
FY2012 Achivement of Environmental Goals and Objectives
Environmental Goals and Objectives for FY2013
Setting Mid and Long-term Goals for CO2 Reduction--------------1--------------2--------------2--------------3--------------4--------------5--------------6--------------8--------------8--------------9Highlights of Our Environmental Activities--------------10

Controlling Environmentally Unfriendly Chemicals
Environmental Conservation Activities
Environmental Burden Data
Environmental Accounting
Environmental Education
Numbers of Employees with Certification in the Environmental Field
Improve environmental awareness--------------13--------------15--------------17--------------20--------------21--------------21--------------22

Social Contribution
Benefits with Employees--------------23--------------24

Postface--------------26

From Our Editors
Every year at Cosel Co., Ltd., we are preparing and disclosing Environmental Report so that more
people understand our environmental activities.
We are more than happy if this report helps you understand our environmental initiatives andactivities.
In preparing this report, we have referred to "Kankyo Hokokusho Gaidorain 2007 (Guideline toEnvironmental Reports 2007)" issued by the Ministry of Environment.
◇Organizations Covered by this Report:
Cosel, Co., Ltd.
Head Office and Plant/Tateyama Plant◇Period Covered by this Report:
May 21, 2012 to May 20, 2013("FY 2011" in this report refers to above period)◇Issue Date of the Next Environmental Report:
July, 2014
◇ Last Issuance: July, 2012

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Message from the President
Since nuclear plant accident happened at Fukushima regarding the Great East Japan Earthquake, we have seen achronic situation of energy supply shortage due to finding new direction of nucler energy policy. Futher more, underthe economy expansion of developing cuntories, it is geeting more serious which sorce of energy and biodiversity
have been drained
As a developer and manufacturer of equipment related to electricity, we believe that we can contribute to energy
saving for the entire society through business activities. Practically we are promotion by supplyng energy saving
product for power loss reduction of customer's system opeartion.
We also believe that it is our mission and responsibility to pass on this precious earth's environment in healthy
conditions to our next generation.
We will promote activities to reduce environmental burdens further and aim to become a company on which ourcustomers would say "we could like to use Cosel products" for both our quality and environment.
Keeping the idea of protecting global environment and passing it on to the generations to come to our heart, we
would like to steadily advance as a trusted company. Please feel free to contact us with your honest opinions andinput for our further improvement.

President and Representative Director

Keiichi Fukumura

Company Overview■Trade Name:■Headquarters:

Cosel Co., Ltd.
1-6-43 Kamiakae-machi, Toyama City, Toyama Prefecture, 930 0816, Japan
TEL：076-432-8151
FAX：076-441-5324
Manufacturing and Sales of Electric Devices and Electrical Machine Equipment■Business:
Regulated Power Supplies (such as Switch Mode Power Supplies)■Main Products:
Keiichi Fukumura■Representative:■Date of Establishment: July 26, 1969
2,055 Million Yen■Paid-in Capital:
16,843Million Yen (Non-consolidated basis for the period ended May 2013)■Annual Sales:■Number of Employees: 431 (Non-consolidated basis as of May 20, 2013)
Taiyoudenshikougyou CO.,LTD. (Tsukioka-machi, Toyama City, Toyama Prefecture)■Affiliates:
COSEL U.S.A.INC. (San Jose, USA)COSEL EUROPE GmbH（Frankfurt, Germany)
COSEL ASIA LTD.（Hong Kong, China)
Cosel (Shanghai) Electronics Co., Ltd.
Shanghai Cosel International Trading Co., Ltd.
Wuxi Cosel Electronics Co., Ltd.
◆Sales (Non-consolidated Basis)◆Operating Profit/Current Profit/Net Profit for the Period(Millions ofYen)
25,000Unit

On BoadNoise Filter(Millions of
Yen)
6,000

Operating Income

Ordinary Profit

Net Income

5,000

20,0004,000

15,0003,000
10,000

2,000

5,000

1,000
0

0

2008/5 2009/5 2010/5 2011/5 2012/5 2013/5

2008/5 2009/5 2010/5 2011/5 2012/5 2013/5

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Outline of Our Business

Unit type
Power supply
Regulated
Power supply

Unit TypePC Board TypeStandard
Power supply
On-Board Type
On-Boad type
Power supply
Power Module Type

Noise Filter

Many electric components including semiconductor devices are used in electronics products such asindustrial and commercial equipment. For these equipment to operate, electrical power delivered tofactories and households needs to be converted from alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC).
Our regulated DC power supplies make this possible.
In particular, switch mode power supplies are our main products. They are used in many electric
devices such as information and telecommunications, medical and FA equipment because they arecompact, light weight and highly efficient.
We can say that switch mode power supplies are the hearts of these equipment and hold a key to the
future of the electronics era.
We will continue our dialogue with new technologies and make highly reliable products which will help
build the future of electronics.

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Management Philosophy/Environmental Policies
Management Philosophy"Responding to the trust of the society by putting Quality as the mostimportant priority"
We are trying to improve ourselves by using the idea
and methodologies of Total Quality Management (TQM)
based on our management philosophy of "meeting up
with expectations from society by putting quality above
anything else."
In order to achieve this, we are striving to secure ourposition in the increasingly competitive switch-mode
power supply market by clearly presenting goals andmeasures and applying them on the company-widebasis to live up to expectations from society by providing
attractive products.

SupremacyofSupr
Qualityemac

Cosel's Charter on Ethic and Standards
for Voluntary Action are established sothat all the management and employeesof Cosel group become fully aware of
their social responsibilities, completely
comply with laws and regulations insettings of various business activities andact in a socially ethical manner in order toachieve our management philosophy of"responding to the trust of the society by
putting Quality as the most importantpriority" (established in September,2006).

Management Philosophy"Responding to the trust of the society
by putting Quality as the most important priority"
Cosel's Charter on Ethic
Standards for Voluntary Action
Internal Rules and Regulations

Awareness and Sense of Ethics of Individual
Employees

Positions of Cosel's Charter on Ethics and Standards for
Voluntary Action

Environmental Policies
Environmental Principle
Harmonize production and product development with environment,endeavor to maintain andimprove global environment and thereby contribute to the society
Action Guidelines(1) Offer environmentally friendly products.
(2) Avoid unnecessary consumption of resources and promote reuse of wastes.
(3) Reduce and eliminate the use of environmentally unfriendly chemicals
and Endeavour to improve global environment.
(4) Set and review goals and objectivities to control our activities,
work for continuous improvement and prevent contamination.
(5) Comply with national and local environmental regulations and respond to
the needs of customers and local communities.
(6) Enlighten employees about environmental preservation including biodiversity conservation throughenvironmental trainings of all employees.
This environmental policies are made public.
Set forth on May 21, 1999
Revised on July 24, 2012
Keiichi Fukumura
President and Representative Director
Cosel, Co., Ltd.

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Corporate Governance【Basic Concept】
We take corporate governance as important business challenge. We are trying to improve ourmanagement efficiency to become a company which lives up to the trust and expectations of various
stakeholders. We have adopted the Corporate Auditor System so that we have better managementmonitoring and compliance with laws and regulations.
< Outline of Corporate Governance Organizations >Shareholders' Meeting
Appointment/Dismissal

Appointment/Dismissal

Board of Auditors
Auditors

Appointment/Dismissal

Accountant Auditors
Auditing Firm

Board of Directors
Directors

Appointment/Supervising
ReportingPresident andRepresentative Director
RC (RiskManagement andCompliance )Committee,
Environmental
Committee,
Quality
Assurance
Committee

Auditing

Auditors' Office

Policy-making Meeting(Enlarged) Management
Meeting
Accountant
Auditors

Auditing

Business Divisions and Group Companies

Corporate Governance System
We are adopting the Board of Auditors System. Two of our three auditors are external auditors
as defined in paragraph 16, Article 2 of Companies Act. Currently, Cosel does not have any
external director. There is no department that supports our external auditors.
However, information is communicated to our external auditors at our monthly board of auditors.
【Board of Directors】【Board of Auditors】

The Board of Directors makes decisions on
matters for which their decisions are required bylaws, regulations and articles of incorporation.
They also make decisions on management
policies and business operations and supervise
execution of duties by representative directors.
The Board of Directors comprises of sevendirectors. The meetings of the Board of
Directors are usually held once a month.
Directors execute businesses in the area of
responsibility under direction of President basedon the management policies decided on atmeetings of Board of Directors.

The Board of Auditors comprises of threeauditors; one standing auditor and two external
auditors (out of which one is an attorney). They
attend meetings of board of directors and othermeetings and audit execution of duties byrepresentative directors.

【Auditors Office】
Auditors' Office (comprising of two people) is
established to enhance internal governancefunction in collaboration with auditors, the Board
of Auditors and accounting auditors.

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マネジメントシステム状況
Management System
Organizational Strucuture
The following is our organizational structure to promote the activities to reduce Environmental burdens.
President*1Manager for
Environmental Activities*2
Environmental
Auditors

Environmental
Committee

Secretariat
Division in charge ofenvironmental issues

Conduct
Environmental

Department

Beautification andRecycling Committee

Safety and Hygiene
Committee

Division

Make recommendations
concerning
Labor Safety Law

Give directions on Recycling
Activities*1*2

Chairman of Environmental Committee = Manager for Environmental Activities
Made up of major departments

ISO14001
We have complied with ISO14001 on Head
office and Tateyama Plant, and arepromoting continuous activities to improveourselves.
Auditors●Date of Acquisition: December 17, 1999
●Area Covered: Head Office and Plant/Tateyama Plant●Registered by: Japan Quality Assurance Organization

International Sales Dept.
Domestic Sales Dept.

CEO

13 Sales Offices
Toyama Sales Office

Strategy
Promotion
Dept.

Sales Support Section
Customer Business Development Dept.

General Affairs Dept.

Administration Dept.

Accounting Dept.
Human Resource Development Dept.

Power Supply Design Dept.
R&D Dept.
Intelligent Power System Design Dept.

Noise Filter Design Dept.
Quality Management Dept.
Information Systems Dept.

The coverage outside

Production Dept.

Head Office and Plant

Purchasing Dept.

Tateyama Plant

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Management System
Legal Compliance and Others
We are keeping abreast of changes and revisions of the environmental laws and regulations which
we need to abide by in our environmental management activities monthly. If necessary to apply to us,
we inform it to all employees through our internal Environmental Committee,
Regarding othe requests, we input them in our computer system so that all the emploees and therelevants can refer to for their references every time in need.
We are reflecting all the laws, regulations, requirements and evaluation results in our internal rules,
regulations and standards and evaluating our legal compliance every year to make sure we do not
violate any laws, regulations or requirements.

Environmental Audit
We are conducting an environmental audit every year to confirm our compliance with ISO14001,
implementation and performance status.
Our internal auditors form a team comprising of those who have taken internal and external audit
trainings and deemed qualified to audit each department.
Currently, there are 25 internal environmental auditors.
Each auditor reports audit results including areas of improvement to each department manager.
Each department reviews their activities and engage in activities for continuous improvement.
In FY 2012, 5 non-compliance cases were observed. Corrective actions were completed for allcases.

Prevention of Accidents
We have developed a "Environment-related Equipment Map" which shows where those environmentrelated equipments are in Head Office and Tateyama Plant to prevent and detect accidents caused bythem abnormally.
If we determine that a certain equipment needs more control, we check if the procedure set forth in
the case of emergency are put in place, and if the regular maintenance and measurement are
conducted. In this manner, we are well-prepared to cope with an unexpected incident.
We have received no complaints from our stakeholders about the environment-related issues.
We have confirmed that all our measured environmental data, including vibration and noise level, do
not exceed legal and regulatory maximum limits.
(Example) We are checking kerosene and oil tanks every month to see if there is any cracks or
damages to prevent soil contamination.
環境関連設備マップ（本社工場）
少量危険物貯蔵取扱所

液体窒素タンク

GHP（4F屋上）

コンプレッサー（本社A）
LPGバルク貯槽

環境関連設備マップ（立山工場）

Ｒ機械室(4F室内)
本館(1F-3F)

廃棄物置き場（機械室）

2009.5.1ボイラー
吸収式冷温水機

・吸収式冷温水機(立山ａ)・コンプレッサー
・消火栓ポンプ室
危険物屋内貯蔵所（有機溶剤貯蔵庫）
特別管理産業廃棄物置き場
ガスボンベ貯蔵庫

太陽光発電

立山工場

コンプレッサー（本社B）
地下水循環ポンプ（揚水機）

渡廊
下L P ガスタンク

窒素タンク置場（現在不使用）
少量危険物貯蔵取扱所
緑
地
帯

新館
(1F-4F)

駐車場

敷地境界線

駐車場

緑地帯

廃棄物置き場

60KW太陽光発電

ＫＨＰ
氷蓄熱式空調システム
ＧＨＰ

水路

正
門

LPGバルク貯槽
コミュニティ
クラブ

灯油タンク・貯油槽
少量危険物取扱所

吸収式冷温水機(立山ｂ)
給湯ボイラーN

ガスボンベ（LPガス）
灯油タンク・貯油槽
テニスコート

西門
水路
駐車場

未開発地域

敷地境界線

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FY2012 Achivement of Environmental Goals and Objectives
The following table shows our achivements of Environmental goals and objects for FY2012.
We were able to meet the goals in the areas of reduction of CO2 in production floors and improvementof recycling rates. However, we were not able to meet all of the goals for new product development
because some of them were quite challenging.
【Results: ○: Goals Achieved, ×: Not Achieved】
Control Item

Results

Evaluation

Amount of CO2 Emission from power consumption per 1 million yen ofsales: 0.111t or less0.107t/million yen○

Amount of Wastes per 1 million yen of sales: 0.40kg or less

0.42kg/million yen

×

95.3%

○

Not achieved

×

90.1%

○

Not achieved

×

Establishment of new production methods for Establishment of production conditions Creation of PC board design
standards
new product C

Completed○

Design life 10 years or more

Achieved○

Establishment of design technology for small
6 and reinforced insulation for transformer for Long-term pressure resistance design life 10 years or more
new product C

Achieved○

Reduction of power consumption in On-board
Reduction of Power Consumption in Base Unit 5% or more
Production Department

8.3%

○

No.

Objectives

1 Reduction of Power Consumption

2 Reduction of Industrial Wastes
Recycle rate: 95% or more
3

Establishment of technologies to make new
Input Power with no load 0.4w or lessproduct A meet ErP directive

4 Ｒeduction of CO2 by new products

Efficiency improvement of new product B 90% or more
Process capability index of the transformer structure Cpk > 1.67

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Progress in each area for FY2013 is confirmed at environmental committee, which is held every othermonth.
No.

Objectives

1 Reduction of Power Consumption

Control Item

Amount of CO2 Emission from power consumption per 1 million yen ofsales: 0.101t or less
Amount of Wastes per 1 million yen of sales: 0.40kg or less

2 Reduction of Industrial Wastes
Recycle rate: 95% or more
Efficiency improvement of new product A 90% or more
3 Ｒeduction of CO2 by new products
Efficiency improvement of new product B 90% or more

4

Reduction of power consumption in On-board
Reduction of Power Consumption in Base Unit 5% or more
Production Department

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Setting Mid and Long-term Goals for CO2 Reduction
Setting Mid and Long-term Goals for CO2 Reduction
In FY2009, "CO2 Reduction Project" led by a manager class person was launched and mid/long term
reduction goals and action plans were established.
To realize the goals and plans, we have developed energy saving products for improving customers'
system energy consumption. A project team has been leading project implementations to save dailyenergy consumption at COSEL facilities.
Mid and
Long-term
Goals for CO2 Reduction
ＣＯ
排出量中長期削減目標
２120%

Goals for 2050
75% Reduction from
2005

Goals for 2020
35% Reduction from
2005

100%

80%

60%

40%

20%

0%
1990

2000

2010

2020

2030

2040
事業年度

2050

FY

●3 Categories of CO2 Emission
87.7％

U Emission

The amount of CO2 emitted directly or indirectlyfrom Cosel was divided into 3 categories.
● U Emission: Emission from Product Using Process● F Emission: Emission from Factory process● M Emission: Emission from Materials/Parts
manufacturing process

2.5％

F Emission

9.8％

M Emission

The left graph shows the estimated CO2 emission
as of 2005.

Estimate (FY2005)
-

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

［Ten thousand t-CO2］

Introduction of Power Monitoring System〜 Research of peak shift effect by ice storage chilled water supply apparatus〜
ピークシフト

氷蓄熱̲稼動̲8/6〜8/10
Operation
8/6-8/10
氷蓄熱̲未稼動̲8/27〜
Non-operation 8/27-8/31
8/31

A chart on the left, it is an
example of using energy
management system(Elco).
It shows us peak shift effectdata by ice storage chilledwater supply apparatus.
We have created actions
and implemented energy
saving actions by using thedata in efficient.

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Highlights of Our Environmental Activities
Development of Smaller Highly Efficient Power Supplies
When we develop new products, we conduct their environment assessment from the standpoints of energy-saving,recyclability, use or non-use of toxic substances and environmental friendliness of packing materials to develop
more environmentally friendly products.
Furthermore, we have established our internal evaluation criteria based on which environmentally friendly products
are recognized and registered as "eco model." We have created the following symbol for our eco models andpromote these products to our customers (please see page 11).

Low Loss Low Cost Design with Renovated Circuit Architecture PLA Series
Dramatically Reduced Standby Power Consumption!
EnergyDramatically Reduced Depth Space!
Resource
SavingSavingInternal Standby Loss
PBA100/150（Previous Model)
６W
PLA100/150
1Wwith option R
0.5W
90% Reduction from previous model

CHS400 Series which Achieved World-class 96% High Efficiency

Efficiency[％]

3~4% Efficiency Improvement from Our
Previous Model！
50% Reduction of Internal Loss！

70% Smaller than Our Previous
Model！
EnergySaving

97
96
95
94
93
92
91
90

CHS400Previous
Model
400Ｗ

Resource
Saving(CDS)

Previous Model CDS

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

CHS
400Ｗ

35

Load Current［Ａ］

Noise Filter FT Series which Achieved Dramatic Space and Weight Reduction
Resource
SavingEnergy onsumption
improvement when applying
current !

Space and Weight
Reduction !

［Footprint Comparison
with Our Previous Model］‑38%

By optimization of construction
materials、Reduction of energy
consumtion［Weight Comparison
with Our Previous Model］

‑10%

‑14%
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Highlights of Our Environmental Activities
Establishing Eco Products: Environmentally Friendly Products and its Symbol
We have developed a new internal evaluation system on environmental burdens in order to provide
our customers with information on our products and our efforts to promote the development ofenvironmentally friendly products since 2010.
We are looking at the following 3 items in evaluating our products to reduce their environmental
burdens.
(1) Environmental burdens generated when our products are in operation at customers' site(2) Environmental burdens generated when our products are manufactured at our factories(3) Environmental burdens generated when materials and components we purchase are
manufactured.
Based on the above 3 items, we set our own criteria to certify and register products which satisfy
our criteria as "Eco Products." These Eco Products are highly efficient in reducing environmental
burdens. To promote Eco Products, we developed the following symbol which represent Eco
Products.

The total number ofthe eco-model
160
The total number

140
120
100
Cosel Co., Ltd. Eco ProductSymbol Mark

80
60
40
20
0
2010

2011

2012

We will proactively expand our Eco Products to create an environmentally friendly low-carbon
recycling-oriented society and to continue to grow with our customers.
This symbol mark is used in our product catalogue on pages covering Eco Products to provide
information to our customers.

Example of a page in Our Catalog where this Symbol Mark is Used

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Highlights of Our Environmental Activities
Reducing Environmental Burden in Production Floor:〜Reducing Power Consumption of Soldering Pots〜
57% of power consumption by production equipment at our Tateyama Plant is accounted for by ouruse of soldering pots.
Therefore, in FY2010, we tried to reduce power consumption of soldering pots and achieved about
20% reduction by lowering power consumption in the pre-heater area.
In FY2011, we took the following three measures to reduce power consumption in the pot area.
(1) Cover the top surface of the pots with insulating material during the night(2) Cover the top surface of the pots with insulating material during lunch break(3) Partially cover the pots with insulating material during production hours
With these measures, we were able to reduce power consumption by the soldering pots at
Tateyama Plant about 15%.
In FY2011, we took these measures for our 13 internal soldering pots. In FY2012, we have applied
to further 6 of other soldering pots, finally all soldering pots have been implemented energy saving
measures.

Covers of Soldering Pots

Reducing Environmental Burden in Production Floor:〜Culling of fluorescent light〜
We culled 23% of the fluorescent lights which were always on
because we concluded that culling them would not cause any problem.

Production Floor After Culling Fluorescent Lights

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Controlling Environmentally Unfriendly Chemicals
EU RoHS Directive (*1) came into effect on July 1, 2006.
Cosel had achieved 100% compliance with RoHS Directive inFebruary, 2006 (*2).
REACH(*3) and PFOS came into effect in FY2007 and
FY2008, respectively. Requirements to control environmentally
unfriendly chemicals became even stricter. We haveestablished the systems to control environmentally unfriendly
chemicals and using these systems so that environmentally
unfriendly chemicals are not used in our products.

Pb
Lead
PBB
Polybrominated biphenyls

Hg
Mercury

CertainHazardous
Substances
PBDE
Polybrominateddiphenyl ethers

Cd
Cadmium

Cr6+
Hexavalent chromium

Green Procurement

Supplier Management

At Cosel, we are facilitating "Green Procurement"
in which we procure environmentally friendly
components and materials in order to deliverenvironmentally friendly products to our customers.
We have defined "prohibited materials,""materials targeted for elimination" and "materials
targeted for reduction" for components andmaterials which comprise our products. By doing
this, we can prevent the entry of environmentally
unfriendly chemicals into our products.

We are evaluating the risk of use ofenvironmentally unfriendly chemicals by our
suppliers and ranking them at 3 levels.
This ranking is used for the "Measurement ofEnvironmentally
Unfriendly
ChemicalsofPurchased Materials" and "Audit of Suppliers'
Management of Environmentally Unfriendly
Chemicals." This ranking is reviewed once every
year.
Under this system, we audit and review how
environmentally
unfriendly
chemicals
arecontrolled by high risk suppliers and how highrisk components and materials are controlled bysuppliers. We also facilitate registration of highrisk suppliers, materials and components.

Education on Environmentally
Unfriendly Chemicals(*1)What is RoHS Directive?
RoHS Directive is an EU directive that will
restrict the use of certain hazardous materials
in electrical and electric equipment. The useof six substances, mercury (Hg), cadmium(Cd), lead (Pb), haxavalent chromium (Cr6+),
polybrominated biphenyls (PBB),
polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE), will
be prohibited from July, 2006.

In FY2006, we conducted an educational
campaign on environmentally unfriendly chemicals.
Not only people working at our headquarters andTateyama Plant, but also people who are involved
with Cosel's products as our contractors and attransportation companies also participated in our
test and training sessions.
Using a training material developed by ourdepartment which is responsible for environmental
issues, training sessions were held by department
and tests were given to participants to check theirunderstanding about environmental issues. This
enabled them to deepen their understanding of theobjectives and the importance of managing
environmentally unfriendly chemicals as well asactivities taken by Cosel.

(*2) Excluding Maintenance Items(*3) What is REACH?
REACH is an regulation in which
manufacturers or importers of chemical
substances are obliged to register andevaluate chemical substances inmanufacturing or importing them and, in thecase of chemical substances of very highconcern, an authorization from relevant
authorities is required and high risk
substances are subject to limitation including
ban. REACH entered into force in June 2007.

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Controlling Environmentally Unfriendly Chemicals
New Components, New Products and Mass Production Management
Since FY2006, we have been conducting fluorescence X-ray tests (*4) by target measurement area
to prevent the entry of environmentally unfriendly chemicals into our products. The fluorescence X-ray
test allows us to confirm and verify whether or not a component is complying with our "Green
Procurement Standards."
The evaluation is performed at the following 3 levels.
We have four X-ray fluorescence instruments in total, two units at our headquarter plant and anothertwo at our Tateyama plant.
New Product Launch

Acceptance of Purchased Components

In the past when we adopted a new component,
we conducted a "Quality Evaluation" to preventthe use of defective components. However, we
decided to conduct fluorescence X-ray tests formass production components to check thepresenceofenvironmentally
unfriendly
chemicals in newly adopted components. Test
results are compared to the data about
environmentally unfriendly chemicals which aresubmitted from suppliers before components are
officially registered.

We also conduct fluorescence X-ray tests by target
measurement area when we accept purchased
components.

After Shipping Mass Production Products
After we ship mass production products, we evaluate
the presence of environmentally unfriendly chemicals
to make sure that Green Procurement Standards are
met on an ongoing basis, in addition to ourlongstanding electrical quality and mechanical quality
evaluations.

(*4)What is fluorescence X-ray test?
It is an analytical method in which
information on the existence of an atom isacquired based on the wavelength of a
specific X-ray and the intensity of the energyof the X-ray which is generated when X-ray isirradiated to an atom which comprisemolecules.

Fluorescence X-ray Instrument

Management of Production Lines
In order to prevent the entry of environmentally unfriendly chemicals into our products, RoHScompliant products and non-RoHS-compliant products are manufactured in separate lines on our
production floor by using separate equipment, jigs and tools.
Equipment, jigs and tools for soldering process are identified by signs and labels as shown in thefollowing pictures.

Indication of Lead-free Solder Indication of Eutectic Solder

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Environmental Conservation Activities
1．Energy Saving
87% of the energy Cosel consumes is electric power. Since the inception of the Company, all our
fluorescent lamps at our shop floors and offices have had pull switches to reduce the amount of
power consumed. We are making sure that lights are turned off during breaks and when not in use.
Furthermore, all the personal computers used at Cosel are set in the energy-saver mode and ourmonitors are automatically turned off when not in use. We are always taking small but importantmeasures.

●Cutting Down Power Consumption of Computers
Entire company has adopted a power-saving configuration inwhich a monitor goes off and a computer goes to a stand-bymode when it is not in use for a certain period of time.
Power switches are provided for each computer or for eacharea so that when somebody goes home, he or she can turnoff the power to reduce power consumption of computers not
in use.

2．Use of Renewable Energies
・FY2002 60kw solar power generator was installed at the rooftop of the new headquarters building
・In FY2004, 50kw solar power generator was installed at the rooftop of the Tateyama Plant
・In FY2006, 50kw solar power generator was added at the rooftop of the Tateyama Plant
・In FY2010, 50kw solar power generator was added at the rooftop of the Tateyama Plant
The impact of these generators is about 200,000kwh annually (CO2 emission of about 84t-CO2 reduction)(Ten thousand kwh)

Headquarters
Tateyama
20
15
10
5
0
Solar Panels at New Headquarters

Solar Panels at Tateyama Plant

'07

'08

'09

'10

'11

'12
（FY）
Trend of Solar Power Generation

3．Reduce● Reduction of Use of Air Cap Bags for Packing
Air cap bags were used when we shipped transformers
and sheet metals, etc. to contract manufacturers. Oncepackages were opened at contract manufacturers' site, theair cap bags were disposed of as industrial waste.
We reduced the use of air cap bags by changing our
packing methods using reusable Tupperware andcontainers.
Unpacking at contract manufacturers' site also became
more efficient.
(This is one example of our QC circuit activities)

Air Cap Bags

Reusable Tupperware and Container

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Environmental Conservation Activities●Elimination of Styrofoam
We had been using styrofoam as a buffer material for the shipment of our products because it wascheap and excellent to protect our products. After being used, it had been discarded as the industrial
waste.
We have replaced plate-shaped styrofoam with cardboards and small styrofoam balls withbiodegradable resin in order to reduce industrial wastes.

4. Reuse●Reuse of Tape Reels and Semiconductor Sticks
We use chips to assemble power supplies. These chips are shipped from manufacturers reeled up
onto plastic reels.
When chips are used up, the reels are left, which used to be discarded as industrial waste ofstabilized type. Some semiconductors come in plastic sticks when shipped from manufacturers.
These sticks had been discarded once semiconductors were used up just like the reels.
Because they do not get deformed or worn after use, we have changed our procedures to reuse
them by having manufacturers collect them after use.

● Reuse of Used IPA
We use isopropyl alcohol (IPA) as a diluent for
fluxes which are used in soldering our products.
We also use IPA for cleaning of jigs and tools.
In 2010, we introduced IPA recovery equipment
to recover used IPA and reuse it . As a result, wewere able to reduce the amount of chemical
substances.
IPA Regenerator

Regenerated IPA

5．Recycle●Recycling of Waste Products andDefective products, unusable bottom
plates and dummy circuit boards thatwere cut off in production processes
had been discarded as industrial waste.
Now we are dividing these wastes
into metals and plastics, etc. before
disposing them so that they can beused as ingot and furnace combustion
improver.

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Environmental Burden Data
Every year, we at Cosel are investigating environmental burden in our business activities for
management purpose.
( ) YoY Jan, 2012 to Dec, 2012
ＩＮＰＵＴ
EnergyMaterials

Electrical Power

LPG

About
429millionkwh(102%)

About
44,000m3(100%)

Kerosene

Gasoline

Flux/IPA

About14kℓ(125%)

About7kℓ(87%)

About21ｔ(84%)

Office Paper

Solders withlead(*1)

Lead-free
Solders

Copy Paper

About0.06ｔ(46%)

About7ｔ(81%)

About8ｔ(136%)

Packing Materials

Water Resources

Packing Boxes(Cardboard Boxes)

Buffer Materials(Cardboard Boxes,Plastics)

About158ｔ(78%)

About97ｔ
(85%)

Water

Underground Water

About5,400m 3(88%)

About94,000m 3(112%)ＯＵＴＰＵＴ
Products

Recycling

WastesDomestic Waste
About3ｔ(98%)
Industrial Waste ofControlled Type

About4ｔ(112%)

Industrial Wasteof Stabilized
About0.6ｔ(42%)
Industrial Waste
subject toSpecial Control
About0kg(-)

Valuable Resources
Lead-free
Solders Balls
About4.1t(89%)

Cardboard Boxes
About83ｔ(112%)

Used Papers
About20ｔ(93%)

Plastics
About11ｔ
(67%)

Waste
About2.4ｔ(44％)→Cardboard Boxes→Toilet paper,
Newspaper→Accelerants→Accelerants

Waste Liquid
About1.2ｔ(171%)

Styrene Foams
About0.7ｔ(44%)

Fluorescent
About87kg(118%)

Conductive→Accelerants→Polystyrenematerials→Glassmaterials

CO2 Emission

About61kg(53%)→Trail tarp

Discharged Water

Waste Metal(*2)

CO2SewageAbout27ｔ(90%)

About2,130ｔ-CO2(102%)

About5,400m 3(88%)(*1)Became completely lead-free(*2)It is changed from recycling to valuable resources

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Environmental Burden Data
1. Amount of Emissions*Recycling Rate (%) = Total Amount of Wastes collected
for Recycling and Reuse and Valuable Items for FY(kg)/Total Emission Amount for FY (kg) *100

Valuable Resources
Amount or Recycled and Reused Resources
Total Amount of Wastes

250

（％）
100

200

95

（ｔ）

94.7

94.4

95.3

95.7

'11

'12
(FY)

150
90

90.7

100

87.7

85

50

80

0
'07

'08

'09

'10

'11

Trend of Amount of Emissions

Industrial Waste subject to Special Control
Industrial Waste of Controlled Type
Industrial Waste of Stabilized Type
Domestic Wastes

（ｔ）

'07

'12
（FY）

20

'08

'09

'10

Trend of Recycling Rate
Cardboard Boxes

Waste IPA/Flux

Used Papers

Metal

Plastics

Reel Sticks

Fluorescent Lamp

Confidential Documents

Conductive Shoes

Waste Liquid

white robes

batteries

Styrofoam

Waste Metal

Waste Plastics

（ｔ）
15
200
150

10

100
5
50
0

0
'07

'08

'09

'10

'11

Trend of Amount of Wastes

'12

'07

(FY)

Many types of wastes are generated in our businessactivities. Many of them are recyclable, if we segregate
them properly.
We at Cosel, Environmental Committee andBeautification and Recycling Committee are working
together in such activities as making sure wastes areproperly separated and emissions are reduced.

'08
'09
'10
'11
Trend of Recycling and Reuse

'12
(FY)

Chairman ofEnvironment Committee
Yutaka Tamou"Environmental Committee is working on thefollowing 3 major activities.
(1) Reduction of CO 2(2) Improvement of Recycling Rates(3) Compliance with Laws and Regulations
In this fiscal year, the project team has
considered to save energy and employees areproceed some actions for “ Reduction of CO2
emission ” . We also have taken action to sort ofmaterials for increasing the percentage of garbage
recycle rate. We enforced to recycle all materials
seriously.

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Environmental Burden Data
2. Total Energy Amount
CO2 Emission
Basic Unit CO2 Emission（ｔ-CO2）（ｔ-CO2/Million
Yen)

0.13

2,500

0.13

0.12

0.13

0.11

2,000
1,500

0.12

2,497
2,179

1,000

2,008

2,229

2,173 2,136

500
0

0.14
0.12
0.10
0.08
0.06
0.04
0.02
0.00

(Amount of Wastes/ Sales)

130

125
118

120

118
109

110

108
100

98

90
'07
'08
'09
'10
'11
'12
CO2 Basic Unit CO2 Emission with that in(FY)
FY2005

'07
'08
'09
'10
'11
'12
（FY）
Trend of CO2 Emission and Basic Unit CO2
Emission(Ten thousand kwh)

14%

1%1%

500

Electrical Power
LPG
Kerosene
Gasoline

489

450

437
439

439

414

400

429

84%

350
'07
Breakdown of CO2 Emission

'08
'09
'10
'11
Trend of Electrical Power

'12
(FY)

As we mentioned before, 84% of our CO2 emission comes from electrical power consumption. In
order to reduce this, our Environmental Committee is playing a central role in implementing many
activitie.
As for our total energy use (crude oil equivalent) as a business operator under the Law Concerning
the Rational Use of Energy was 1,268kl , which was not subject to notification requirement .
However, it is expected that our energy use will exceed the 1,500kl criteria within several years.
Therefore 2 employees took the Energy Management Training in FY2010.
We have also confirmed that we are not specified consigner as defined by Law Concerning the
Rational Use of Energy.

3. Amount of Environmentally Unfriendly Chemicals
Among chemical substances handled by Cosel, Class I Designated Chemical Substances whose
handling amounts are subject to notification requirement with PRTR are "lead and its compounds."
However, lead solder which falls under "lead and its compounds" is not subject to the notification
requirement because we have already changed all of our solder to lead-free solder.

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Environmental Accounting
Covered Area: Head Office and Plant, Tateyama Plant
Unit: Thousands of Yen

Environmental Conservation Cost
Category
Investment
Description
Cost(1) Cost within Business Area
Cost incurred to curb environmental burden through production and service activities implemented within businessareas.
00①Pollution Prevention Cost
②Global Environment Conservation Cost
③Resource Circulation Cost
(2) Cost at Upstream and Downstream

1,884

15,015002,362
82,054704

11,4320422(Cost) Sponsoring Environment-related radio
program

0

800

−

0

0

(Cost) Green procurement
Controlling Environmentally Unfriendly
Chemicals

Cost incurred to curb environmental burden
generated at upstream and downstream ofproduction and service activities.

(3) Management Cost
(Investment)Power Monitoring System
Environmental Conservation Management Cost (Cost) Management of Environmental activities.
Monitoring and measuring data fromfacilities with Environmental burdens.
Handling of Responses to Survey on
Chemicals.
(4) R&D Cost
(Cost)Research and development ofEnvironmental Conservation R&D Cost
the environmental conservation products(5) Social Activities Cost
Environmental Conservation Cost for Social(6) Environmental Damage Control Cost
Cost to Control Environmental Damages

Total

2,588 112,085※Environment Conservation Cost includes depreciation of capital investment of the past year and labor cost.

Environmental Conservation Effect(Substance Volume)

Environmental Conservation Effect(Economic Impact)

Item

Item
Savings from Power Usege Reduction

Effect

CO2 Reduction(Reduction of Power Consumption withphotovoltaic power generation andenergy saving measures)

Reduction of Waste Disposal Cost
thanks to the Recovery of Valuable
Resources

92（ｔ-CO2)

Effective Use of Wastes(Amount of Recycle-Reuse and Valuable
Resources)
Use reduction quantity of IPA

Amount3,028
101

Proceeds of Sales of Recyclable
Items(Valuable Items)

151(t)

6,913
10,042Total

2.7(t)※Economic effect based on assumption such as risk avoidance (expected effect) is not posted as effect.

Investment

Cost

Economic Impact(thousands of yen)

112,085

120,000
100,000

92,37884,66780,00087,56872,04767,64360,00040,77740,00020,00019,00012,25913,6560

7,490

20,1930

10,042

17,403
8,454

2,588

0
'07
'08
'09
'10
'11
Trend of Environmental Conservation Cost and Investment and Economic Impact

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Environmental Education
For the purpose of Environmental Management, we have clearly identified types of the training in need.
We are offering;(1) General trainings to raise awareness among employees about Environmental issues.
(2) Professional trainings to improve technical skills in specialized areas as shown below.
(3) Training on environmentally unfriendly chemicals (please see page 13)(1)General trainings cover all the employees, including part-timers, temporary employees, if engaged for acertain period. As for the new employees, they are trained at first. If they do not understand enough, they
will be trained till satisfaction.
List of professional training
OperationNo.

Description of Training
・How to dispose of solder wastes
・Check soldering machine・Emergency measures

1

Soldering2

Treatment of Waste Organic Solvent

・How to dispose fluid containing flux and/or IPA・Emergency measures

3

Paper work concerning industrial waste

How to process industrial waste control slips (manifest)

4

Confirmation of Revision of and
Evaluation of Compliance withEnvironmental Laws and Regulations

How to confirm the revision of, and evaluate compliancewith environmental laws and regulations

5

Observe nitrogen gas filling・Check when observing liquid nitrogen filling・Daily check6

Controlling chemicals and hazardous
substance

Control methods based on internal regulations

7

Confirmation of Kerosene Tank Check
Results and Emergency Response

How to train, provide hands-on exercises and checkunderstanding based on "Kerosene Tank Control
Procedures (PEC018)."

The concerned
Persons who handle
them

People in charge of
relevant tasks

Numbers of Employees with Certification in the Environmental Field
We are encouraging employees to acquire certification in the environmental field and trying to increase thnumber of certified employees.
As of today, the following numbers of employees have certification in the environmental field.
Number of Credential Holders

No.

Name of Credentials

1hazardous materials security sup

1

2

Class B hazardous materials eng

19

3

Class C hazardous materials eng 10

4chief of lead5

chief of organic solvent

6

special controlled industrial waste

7

chief of specified chemical substa 10

8

1 health officer

109

Safety Officer

410

fire prevention manager

6

11

Eco test

55

12Internal Auditor of the Environme

25

4
13

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Improve environmental awareness
Visiting Recycling Company with
Plant TourIn December, four members of the Beautification
Recycling Committee from our headquarters plant andTateyama plant visited a recycling company to which we
subcontract confidential documents recycling.
Plant tour was given to deepen our understanding
about waste separation and to confirm how confidential
documents are recycled.

Production Dept. Section2
Uichi Kanamori"This was my first time visiting therecycling plant, which made me
realize how important recycling is.
The facility is recycling important
documents with finger print security
system. We understood the recycling
system and aware of the importanceof sorting materials. We publicize theimportance internally as the best we
can.

Segregate plastic bottles
Beverage bending machines are installed in our
premises. Used plastic bottles are separated into
exterior films, caps and bottles (main bodies) before
being discarded.
We are trying to improve environmental awarenessthrough an easy-to-do environmentally friendly activity.

Encouraging taking Eco Test: Developing People who Work on Environmental Issues
Eco Test (officially known as Certification Test forEnvironmental Specialists) is a certification test run by the
Tokyo Chamber of Commerce in order to develop people with awide range of knowledge who can play a leading role in tacklingenvironmental issues and facilitate the realization of asustainable society where we can protect environment
and achieve economic growth at the same time.
Cosel's employees started to take the test from the 6th test
and 55 of them have passed the test so far.
We are encouraging our employees to take the test by
subsidizing a test fee and making those who passed the test
eligible for certification reward monay.

( Past the 13th Test)

We will continue this effort in FY2013.

"Many sorts of standards andkinds are existing on environment
label. We look at them without
attention so far.
Also,
we
knew
commonenvironment glossaries, histories,
international conferences and therules. We have proud that ouractions are helping of earth
environment at the end."

Number of People Who Passed the Test

60
50
40
30
20
10
0

Accumulated Number of People Who Passed the Test

55

Up untilthe 7th

8th

9th

10th

11th

Noise Filter Design Dept.
Junko Yasuda

12th

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Social Contribution
JEITA Toyama District Manufacturing ClassOn June 1, 2013 (Saturday), “6th JEITA Toyama District
Manufacturing Class" was held at SMK(in YATUO). 30 maleand female students in grades 5 and 6 from nearby
elementary schools participated in the class and engaged
in an electrical engineering project under the theme of"Let's turn on a light by wireless signal."
Cosel has been a part of this class since the 1st class. In
the 5th class too, our employees served as instructors andgave students guidance.
Children seemed to have struggled with unfamiliar tasksof assembling and soldering, but we received such
feedbacks as "It is great feeling that various lights maketurn on/ off by wireless on signal", "In next year, when I will
be in middle high school, I utilize my experience of radio
craft. ", "It was very fun to do. I would like to do this again."※What is JEITA?
Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association.
An organization composed of manufacturers and sellers of such products as electrical and electronic equipment,
electronic devices, electronic components, electronic materials and software.

Cosel Cup Challenge Super Kids
This is our 25th anniversary since we became a special
sponsor for a sport event for boys and girls of grades 4
through 6 hosted by a local TV station.
About 323 children in Toyama prefecture participatedin 5 events ranging from 100-meter sprints, ball throwing,broad jump, zigzag dribbling and swimming.
It became a sparkling day as children competed, family
and friends cheered for them.

Fund-raising Activities
Proceeds from the sales of our internal bazaar and donation from our employees are donated to Toyama
Prefecture Cooperative Donation Society. Donation amount is approximately 100,000 yen per year, which is enoughto buy a wheelchair for the disabled or elderly.
The donation can be also applied to home-based service, volunteer training, accident prevention programs forchildren and fostering and nurturing of young people.
In FY2008, we sent about100 spoiled postcards to National Federation of UNESCO Associations in Japan. The
spoiled postcards are replaced with new stamps and then sold. The proceeds of the sales of these new stamps is
donated.
The donation is used for the World Terakoya Movement, a program for people who had not been fortunate to haveeducational opportunities.

Twoerasers

One pencil

Two notes

Cambodia

Nepal

Afghanistan

An article is equivalent in a sheet of spoiled postcard

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タイトル
Benefits with Employees
Human Development【Educational Activities】【Our Philosophy on Training】

Educational Committee is playing a central
role in planning and implementing various
training and educational events in collaboration
with other related departments.

We believe that people are our most important
assets and developing human assets is thedriver for our growth.

【Basic Educational Policies】
Based on the above philosophy, the following basic
educational policies are set forth.
1. Invigorate workplace
2. Improve leadership
3. Acquire necessary knowledge and techniques tobecome more capable
4. Develop skills for the operation and maintenanceof an appropriate quality system
5. Be aware of the need of an environmental
management system and develop skills for its
operation and maintenanceMember feedback of DP workshop(Re-form staff consciousness)

Company Newsletters【Purpose of Company Newsletters】
Newsletter Committee is playing a central
role in issuing Company Newsletters twice ayear, hoping that they will provide topics ofconversation and serve as lubricant, making
Cosel a company that everybody feel
fortunate to be a part of.

【Topics Covered】
Our newsletters cover a wide range of
topics including topics related to our
workplaces, club activities and hobbies
which employees are proud of.
Every issue of our newsletter provides
enjoyable topics, sometimes revealing
our colleague' hidden talents andsometimes showing us hidden lesspretentious side of our usually naggish
bosses.

Cover of Company Newsletter issued in FY2012

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Benefits with Employees
Activities for Labor Safety andHygieneMaintaining and Promoting Health
We are trying to maintain and improve mental
and physical health of our employees through thefollowing trainings.
● Sexual harassment prevention● Power harassment prevention● Mental illness prevention

Safety and Hygiene Committees organizedseparately for the headquarters and Tateyama Plant
are taking a lead and conducting a safety and hygiene
patrolling for the purposes of maintaining and improving
the safety of work environment (bimonthly).
When a problem is found as a result of the parole, arecommendation for improvement is issued, uponwhich a relevant department takes actions and reportsback to the committee.
The number of labor accidents in the past 5 years is
as follows.

Club Activities
There are 11 active clubs within Cosel (a club can
be formed with a minimum of 5 members andsubsidized by the company).
There are culture-related clubs and sport-related
clubs. They aim at maintaining and promoting healthand developing friendship among members.
In FY2011, a defunct tennis club made a comeback
and in FY2012, a running club was newly formed.

10
8
6
4
2
0
'03 '04 '05 '06 '07 '08 '09 '10 '11 '12（FY）
Trend in the number oflabor accidents reported

Running club Member sin Training

Work and Life Balance
It is very challenging to raise children in single or dual-income families. This is one of the factors which
invited declining birth rates and decreasing population of children. In this environment, one of the social
responsibilities of businesses is to "support life and work balance" for their employees.

【Promoting the use of shorter work hours
for child care system】
Employees who are raising children in the 6th
grade or younger (as of the end of March of a fiscal
year) can work shorter hours within the prescribed
hours under our flexible work hour system.
Purchasing Dept. Nami Koide【Encouraging Employees to Use Planned
Paid Days Off】
Our internal rule stipulates that we have to use atleast of 2 days of paid day off every half-year term.
By working efficiently, having good communication
with our bosses and colleagues and using paid days off
in a planned manner, we would like to achieve a goodlife-work balance and personal development andfreshen up ourselves.

25" I have shorter work hours. I come in 1
hour later and leave office 1 hour earlier. I
am so grateful that I am having shorter
hours because this gives me more time tospend with my children.
2 of my children are enjoying atpreschool, so I can work free for anxiety. "Environmental Report2013 COSEL CO., LTD.

PostfaceThank you very much for reading our "Environmental Report 2013."
Since we started to issue "Environmental Report" in 2000, we have expanded the coverage of
our articles by addicting articles about our social activities in addition to environmental activities inorder to bring a better disclosure.
As a part of corporate social responsibilities, we will make our company-wide efforts to achieve
our goals and disclose our activities.

Juｌｙ, 2013
Cosel, Co., Ltd.
Quality Management Dept.
Quality Management Div.1
http://www.cosel.co.jp/en/

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