Environmental Protection Activities Report

Promotion of Environmental Management
Recognizing that environment is the key for management of the company, the FDK Group is promoting environmental management by actively involving itself in environment-related businesses, and not only preserving the environment through abiding by environmental rules and regulations in its business activities.

The FDK Group has introduced EMS to mainly its production sites, as the basis of its environmental management of the company. In theThird Environmental Action Plan, the EMS has been introduced to non-production sites such as Head Oﬃce and Sales.

Targets of the Third Environmental Action PlanIn FY2006, organizational systems and environmental policies wererevised at the Head Oﬃce and all sales sites (Tokyo, Sapporo,Sendai, Nagoya, Osaka, Hiroshima, Fukuoka and Okinawa), in
accordance to the simpliﬁed EMS. An environmental aspect survey
was conducted to identify major action items to be done at the oﬃcefunctions. Two common targets were extracted from the major
action items, which were achieved within the FY2006.

JapanIwaki Plant
Date of acquisition January, 1998
Date of renewal July, 2004
Scope of certiﬁcation FDK CORPORATION: Iwaki Plant,
FDK LIFETEC CORPORATION: Iwaki branch oﬃce
●Development, design and manufacturing of electronic parts relating
to telecommunication equipment

Subsidiaries

Country

Date of Acquisition

XIAMEN FDK CORPORATION

China

January 1999

FUCHI ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. (Taoyuan plant)

TaiwanFebruary 2000

FUCHI ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. (Taichung plant)

TaiwanJuly 2005

SHANGHAI FDK CORPORATION

China

December 2000

FDK LANKA (PVT) LTD.

Sri LankaFebruary 2003

PT FDK INDONESIA

IndonesiaJune 2003

FDK (THAILAND) CO., LTD.

ThailandJune 2003

SUZHOU FDK CO., LTD.

ChinaDecember 2004

Site Report

EMS at Non-Production Sites

Kosai Plant
Date of acquisition October, 1998
Date of renewal October, 2004
Scope of certiﬁcation FDK CORPORATION: Kosai Plant, Sanyo Plant
FDK ENERGY CO., LTD., FDK ENGINEERING CO., LTD.,
FDK MECHATRONICS CO., LTD., FDK LIFETEC CORPORATION,
FUJIDENKA RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS CENTER CO., LTD.,
and FDK ECOTEC CO., LTD.
●Development and design of various electronic parts, batteries, andmachines, and environmental businessesEnvironmental Protection
Activities Report

Introduction of EMS was completed at all production sites of theFDK Group both in and out of Japan at the end of FY2004. InFY2005, all production facilities of the FDK Group, including
Taichung Plant of Fuchi Electronics Co., Ltd. started operation inApril 2005 were certiﬁed as ISO14001:2004 compliant. In FY2006,in addition to the ongoing activities in FDK sites such as antiglobal warming and reduction of wastes, the FDK Group involved
itself in environmental activities relating to its original businessdomains. Also stressed were environmental contribution activities
in and out of the site, such as provision of eco-friendly products.

ISO Certiﬁcation at FDK Group Production Sites

Overseas (Consolidated subsidiaries)

EMS at Production Sites

Social Activities Report

To establish own frameworks of environmental management in all the Group s aﬃliates and subsidiaries, which are based on theenvironmental management system (EMS), by the end of FY 2005
■EMS to be introduced in the entire corporate structure of FDK in Japan including its head oﬃce and sales oﬃces.

Management andOrganizational Structure

Establishment of the Framework of Environmental Management
based on the Environmental Management System (EMS)FDK ENGINEERING CO., LTD.

Environmental Education and Training
In order to continuously improve its EMS, all production sites of
the FDK Group have implemented general education on global
environmental issues, as well as specialty education on waste
disposal and internal auditing. The former is targeted to all
employees, while the latter is targeted to each employee in chargeof their respective specialty ﬁeld. Separation of waste andemergency response measures are taught at each site as well.
All domestic sites of the FDK Group implement enlightenment
education on how to reduce CO2 emissions to all employees andtheir family members, all of whom are participating in the Team
Minus 6% Campaign to prevent global warming.

Future Actions
The following are FDK Group actions that are scheduled to be
implemented in a course of reinforcing the environmental management frame of the company, in line with EMS, which is delineatedin the Fourth Environmental Action Plan.
(1) Raising the level of oﬃce functions(2) Strengthening cooperation with overseas production sites

Lake Hamanako

Hamamatsu

FDK ECOTEC CO., LTD.

Iwaki Plant

Sanyo Plant
Kosai Plant

SUZHOU FDK CO., LTD.

FDK ENERGY CO., LTD.
XIAMEN FDK CORPORATIONSHANGHAI FDK CORPORATIONFUCHI ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
(Taoyuan plant)
FUCHI ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
(Taichung plant)

ＦＤＫ(THAILAND)CO.,LTD.

ＦＤＫ LANKA(PVT)LTDPT ＦＤＫ INDONESIA

Results of the Third Environmental Action Plan
■All production sites including overseas sites were certiﬁed as
ISO14001 compliant by the end of FY2005.
■Introduction of EMS was kicked oﬀ and initial survey wasconducted to the Head Oﬃce and Sales function by the end ofFY2005. In FY2006, FDKEMS was established and is in operation
now.

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