Environmental Preservation Measures to Plants
Basic Policy for Environment
and Action Plan

FDK Group promotes environmental preservation by preventing air, soil and underground water pollutions, which is mainly done by cooperating with its subsidiary, Fujidenka Research and Analysis Center Co., Ltd. The subsidiary mainly handles environmental investigationand prevention of pollutions. In doing so, severer than public environmental limit for each pollutant is set as voluntary standards, andregularly report the measured data to the public oﬃces. In ﬁscal 2004, there were no cases of violating environmental laws and regulations and accidents relating to the environment occurred in FDK Group.

Promotion of Environmental
Management

Prevention of Soil and Underground
Water Pollutions

Promotion ofGreen Procurement
Promotion of Environmental
Measures on Products

Since October 1999, FDK Group has proactively disclosed thedata on pollution of soil and underground water and has promoted puriﬁcation measures of soil and underground water pollution at its four plants, which are Washizu, Hosoe, Osuga andSanyo. In 2002, soil and underground water pollutions at Hosoe
Plant were totally removed.
In ﬁscal 2004, in order to conﬁrm the healthiness of soils in Osuga
Plant, another series of pollution investigation was held in accordance with the Soil Contamination Measures Law. As a result, it
was turned out that the level of pollution was within the limit set
by the authorities, and the healthiness of soils in the plant wasconﬁrmed. For other plants,
we will continue puriﬁcation of soils and monitoring
investigation.

Emergency Drills
As it is said that a massive earthquake may happen at any timearound the Tokai Region, an earthquake and ﬁre drills is heldannually at Kosai Plant in Shizuoka Prefecture. This includes
evacuation drills, rescue drills and ﬁre control drills. The drills
are also practiced assuming that environmental pollutants areleaked out of the plantpremises. In ﬁscal 2004, anemergency training washeld assuming that hazardous chemical substances
are leaked from their storage warehouse.

Training for leakage prevention ofchemical substances (Kosai Plant)

Storage and Control of PCB

Soil Boring Investigation at Osuga Plant

Measures for Global
Warming Prevention

Eﬄuent Analysis Report (Kosai Plant)

Following to the special law on treatment of PCB, FDK Groupsubmitted a report on the volume of PCBs at hand. PCBs are
numerically controlled using a PCB ledger and are appropriatelycontrolled. In the future, PCBs will be appropriately disposed
after establishing a proper treatment method on the substances.

Promotion ofGreen Factories

Chemical substances

UnitPH (Hydrogen- ion concentration)−Control limit (Japan)

Voluntary limit (FDK)

Actual value (max.)

5.8〜8.6

6.0〜8.4

7.6〜8.0

COD (Chemical Oxygen Demand)

mg/ℓ160

15

6.6

BOD (Biochemical Oxygen Demand)

mg/ℓ

160

155.6

SS (Suspended Solids)

mg/ℓ

200

2010N-hexane extract

mg/ℓ

53＜0.5

Copper

mg/ℓ

30.5

＜0.05

As a Global Citizen

Zinc

mg/ℓ

50.5

0.2

Soluble iron

mg/ℓ

103＜0.3

Soluble manganese

mg/ℓ

103＜0.1

Nitrogen

mg/ℓ

120

4018Phosphorus

mg/ℓ1652.2

Nickel

mg/ℓ

−0.5

＜0.05

Lead

mg/ℓ

0.1

0.05

＜0.01

Dichloromethane

mg/ℓ

0.2

0.1

＜0.02

The following substances were found as signiﬁcantly below the voluntary standards and oﬃcial detection limits: benzene, ﬂuorine, arsenic, trichloroethylene,tetrachloroethylene, 1-1-1-trichloroethane, total mercury, carbon tetrachloride and cadmium.

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