MGC’s Responsible Care
ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT

2003 edition

Responsible CareR

CONTENTS
Message from the President

1

Fundamental Policies on the Environment and Safety

2

Responsible Care Management Systems

3

Middle Term Targets and Results of Activities in fiscal 2003

4

Environmental Accounting

5

Responsible Care Audits

6

Activity Targets in fiscal 2004

7

Our Operation of Occupational Health and Safety

8

Profile of the Name
Company
Address

MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.
Mitsubishi Building, 5-2 Marunouchi 2-chome,
Chiyoda-ku,Tokyo 100-8324, Japan

Established on

April 20, 1951

Capital￥41.97 billion

Annual Turnover￥214.6 billion (unconsolidated)￥312.1 billion (consolidated)

Annual Turnover per Products Segment (consolidated)

Our Operation of Process Safety and Disaster Prevention

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Chemicals￥176.7 billion

Environmentally Friendly Products and Research and Development

10

Functional Products￥110.2 billion

Safety Management of Chemical Substances

12

Others￥ 25.2 billion

Safety Information Services

13

Environmental Loads in Business Operations

14

Efforts for Preventing Global Warning

15

Efforts for Air Pollutants Control

16

Efforts for Water Area/Soil

17

Reduction of PRTR Object Substances

18

Reduction of Harmful Air Pollutants

19

Promoting 3R’s of Waste

20

Zero Emission of Waste

21

Initiative in the Environment at Distribution

22

Efforts for Safety during Distribution

23

Our Affiliates’ Environmental/Safety Activities

24

Communication on the Environment

26

Environmental Load Data at Main Plants

Number of Employees

2,487 (unconsolidated)
4,729 (consolidated)

Consolidated Affiliates

40 companies (consolidated)

Sales Ratio per Products
Segment
Transition of Products Sales

Chemicals
Functional
Products

228.8

2000

8％

193.8

2001

275.7

57%

214.6

2002

28

Others

323.0

35％

312.1
0

100

200

300

400
(￥billion)

Unconsolidated

Consolidated

Main Workplaces●Branches
4-8 Shibata 1-chome, Kita-ku, Osaka 530-0012

Kashima Plant

35 Higashi Wada, Kamisu-machi, Kashima-gun, Ibaraki 314-0102

16-22 Meieki 3-chome, Nakamura-ku, Nagoya 450-0002

Naniwa Plant

3-27 Funamachi 1-chome, Taisho-ku, Osaka 551-0022●Plants

Saga Plant

681-45 Oazakamikumakawa, Fuji-machi, Saga-gun, Saga 840-0512

Tokyo Plant

1-1 Niijuku 6-chome, Katsushika-ku, Tokyo 125-8601●Research Laboratories

Niigata Plant

3500 Matsuhama-cho, Niigata 950-3121

Corporate Research Laboratory

Mizushima Plant

3-10 Mizushima Kaigandori, Kurashiki 712-8525

Tokyo Research Laboratory

1-1 Niijuku 6-chome, Katsushika-ku, Tokyo 125-0051

Yokkaichi Plant

4-16 Hinagahigashi 2-chome, Yokkaichi 510-0886

Niigata Research Laboratory

182 Tayuhama Shinwari, Niigata 950-3112

Osaka Plant

2-12 Kamisucho, Toyonaka 561-0823

Hiratsuka Research Laboratory

6-2 Higashiyawata 5-chome, Hiratsuka 254-0016

Yamakita Plant

950 Kishi,Yamakita-machi, Ashigarakami-gun,Osaka Branch
Nagoya Branch

22 Wadai, Tsukuba 300-4247

Kanagawa 258-0112
Main ProductsContents●NATURAL GAS CHEMICALS COMPANY ●AROMATIC CHEMICALS COMPANY ●SPECIALTY CHEMICALS COMPANY ●INFORMATION & ADVANCED MATERIALS
Methanol

Xylenes

Hydrogen peroxide

COMPANY

Formalin

Metaxylylene diamine

Hydrazine hydrate

Epoxy・Glass BT resin copper clad laminates

Ammonia

Alkyl benzaldehyde

Sodium percarbonate

Materials for multi-layer print circuit boards

Methylamines

Trimellitic dianhydride

Persulphates

BT resin

Methyl methacrylates

Pyromellitic dianhydride

Sodium hydrosulfite

AGELESS (Oxygen absorber)

Methacrylates

Nylon-MXD6

Chemicals for electronics industries

AGELESS・OMAC

Polyols

Phthalic anhydride

Plastic lens monomer

AnaeroPack

Dimethyl ether

Purified terephthalic acid

Polycarbonate resin (Iupilon)

RP System and RP Agent

Ubidecarenone

Purified isophthalic acid

Polyacetal resin (Iupital)

Magnetic garnet single crystal

Message from the President
The irreplaceable earth, where we human beings live, is screaming out. It is
attributable to volume consumption of resources and mass disposal ofredundant articles committed by human beings. We must prevent by allmeans our planet from falling in an irreparable status by leaving suchenvironment disrupting deeds as they are, neglecting the autopurification
capacity of the earth.
We are convinced that it is the mission of our chemical industries to be
firmly aware of the necessity of, and implement the structuring of asustainable recycling-based society,by supplying safer products to society
through our production activities with least environmental loads based on
our environmentally friendly research and development.
We, at Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc., hold our management
philosophy, “to contribute to the development and peace of society throughthe creation of a diverse range of value based on chemistry”, and alsostrongly consider that “to ensure safety and environmental friendliness” as
the important pillars in our business management. We are always working
hard to meet social expectation by developing new and innovative materials
in line with our “management philosophy” and “safety and environmental
consideration”.
Dimethyl ether, relied on worldwide as next generation clean fuel; MX
Nylon, with high oxygen gas barrier property to prevent foodstuff fromoxidization, and widely used in the world as environment-protecting resin
which does not generate chlorine gas during combustion; OR-SON AT, adrainage treatment agent, enables decomposition of organic chemical
substances which was difficult to be biodegraded conventionally, reducing
the volume of sludge generation to about one-fifth of the conventional
treatments; RP System to protect metal products and electronics parts fromoxidization and deterioration; all these are the offspring of our management
philosophy and environmental consideration.
Since we declared implementation of Responsible Care activities in 1997, wehave been progressively deploying our autonomous management activities
to ensure Health, Safety and the Environment. In 2001, all of our plants andmanufacturing sites acquired the ISO 14001 certification. As one part of our
responsible care activities, we are eagerly working on environmental
improvement, such as measures for reduction of the emission volume of thesubstances specified in PRTR (Pollutants Release and Transfer Register),progressive promotion of zero emission of industrial wastes, promotion ofgreen procurement and green purchase. In 2003 we introduced
environmental accounting, the contents of which are publicized in thisEnvironmental Report.
We also recognize that communication with society is a very important partof our responsible care activities. We are making utmost efforts to be acompany familiarized as a member of respective local communities, throughparticipation in various occasions to associate with them and throughinformation disclosure.
We, Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc., are dedicated to further
promote our responsible care activities, in order to comply with expectation
which society places in us. We hope that this report will give you a deep
understanding of our environmental preservation activities. We look forward
to receiving your valuable comments and advice.
March 2004

Hideki Odaka
Representative Director & President

1Overall Safety Management

Fundamental Policies on theEnvironment and Safety
We, Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc. (MGC), sympathizing with the consensus of “sustainable development”
and “structuring of recycling-based society” agreed by many countries in the world at the Earth Summit held in 1992
in Rio de Janeiro, participated in the establishment of the Japan Responsible Care Council (JRCC) and joined it as amember upon its start. Since then, we have been promoting the responsible care (RC) activities by setting up ouroverall safety management rules. We are also strongly aware that “to ensure safety” is the most important inproceeding our business activities, and place it as the important pillar in our RC activities.

Environmental and Safety Targets: Zero Accident, Zero Occupational Injury and Environmental Preservation
Fundamental Policies
Security of health, safety and the environment in operations:
We aim at attaining no danger and no accident, by improving our risk awareness and prevention capability through small
group activities such as the new 5S activities and the proposal system for near accidents, as well as by our all-out safety andaccident prevention activities. We also promote environmental preservation activities in our operations.

Promotion of resource and energy saving in production processes:
We take care of use for depletive resources. Further, we do our utmost in effective utilization of resources and energy in our
production processes, as a countermeasure for prevention of global warming.

Promotion of environmental loads reduction:
We make our utmost efforts for reduction of environmental loads, such as reduction of emission of substances specified in
PRTR and greenhouse effect gas and promotion of clean energy utilization.

Promotion of 3R’s of wastes:
We aim at attaining zero emission by reducing generation and emission of wastes, by promoting reuse and recycling, and by
minimizing the landfill treatment.

Environmental preservation in raw material and product logistics:
We promote rationalization of logistics, work on modal shift and eco-drive, and reduce greenhouse effect gas andsubstances in suspended particle form in the logistics stage.

Information service for safe use, handling and disposal of our products:
We actively provide our customers with information relevant to our products regarding safe use, care to be taken in handlingand appropriate disposal methods.

Development of environmentally friendly and safety-considered products and technologies:
We implement various safety tests and verify their safety to human beings and the environment when we develop our new
materials and products. We also promote development of production technologies with least environmental loads.

Support of RC activities in our subsidiaries and affiliates:
We implement RC activities not only in our company but also extend it to our subsidiaries and affiliates, in order to attain ourenvironmental and safety targets as the entire Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Group.

Enhancement of society’s confidence in us:
We make our utmost efforts for enhancement of the confidence that society places in us, through information disclosure by
our environmental reports and website, and through promotion of communication by participating in the activities and eventsin respective local communities.

History of our Environmental and Safety Activities

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Introduction Period (1995-1997)

Activity Period (1998-2000)

Deployment Period (2001-2005)● Participated in establishment of the JRCC,
and joined as a member.
● Establishment of our Overall Safety
Management Rules.
● Set up of the middle term RC plans● President’s declaration on RC implementation● Structuring of RC management systems● Start of the ISO 14001 Introduction Committee● Start of Countermeasures against PL
Committee● Acquisition of ISO 14001 certificationby all of our plants● Acquisition of ISO 9000S certification
for all of our products● Acquisition of certification forautonomous security inspection● Introduction of new 5S activities● Participation in the HPV program● Structuring of the environment andsafety database● Publication of Environmental Reports● Opening of website for RC activities● Promotion of green procurement andpurchase● Deployment of RC activities to our
subsidiaries and affiliates● Introduction of environmental accounting● Promotion of zero emission activities● Introduction of occupational health andsafety risk assessment systems

Overall Safety Management

Responsible Care Management Systems
In accordance with our nine fundamental policies, all of our four internal companies and eight corporate sectors arepromoting responsible care (RC) activities in the areas of occupational health and safety, process safety and disasterprevention, product stewardship and environmental preservation, including support to our subsidiaries and affiliates.
We hold the Environmental and Safety Meeting annually, which is chaired by the President and composed of all theboard members, plant managers, heads of research laboratories, business divisions and administrative divisions, inorder to realize continual improvement by the P-D-C-A (Plan-Do-Check-Act) cycle based on our middle term plans.

Areas of RC Activities
Occupational Health and
SafetyProcess Safety and Disaster
Prevention
Product Stewardship
Environmental Preservation
Support to Subsidiaries andAffiliates

PDCA Cycling of RC Activities
Based on the environmental and safety targets set up in our
Overall Safety Management Rules and the fundamental
policies, we make up our middle term plans for a 5-year
period and annual activity targets of the entire MGC Group at
the Environment & Safety Meeting. All of our sectors,
workplaces being the main actors, plan concrete measuresand activities, and do work to promote them. In the latter halfof each activity period, the director in charge of theenvironment and safety holds the RC Promotion Report
Meeting (RC audits) at each sector, and checks the results ofactivities, analyzes the activities and confirms the future
subjects. According to the proceedings of RC, activity targets
are reviewed by the management at the Environment and
Safety Meeting, in order to reflect them in the activity plans
for the following year leading to continual improvement (act).

Acquisition of ISO 14001 Certification
In order to promote our RC activities effectively, we
introduced the environmental management systems in 1997
and all of our plants acquired ISO 14001 certification in 2001.
As regards product quality, all of our plants have acquired
ISO 9000S certification for our quality management systems.
With respect to occupational health and safety, we are fillingup our RC activities by application in all our workplaces of the
management system that conforms to Occupational Healthand Safety Management System established by the Ministryof Health, Labor and Welfare.

Fundamental
Policies(Middle Term Plans)

P-D-C-A Cycle

Environment &Safety Meeting
Act
Making ofActivity Plans
Plan

RC Promotion
Report Meeting
Check
Implementationof Activity Plans
Do

RC Website

Environmental Reports

Communication with Society

Status of ISO 14001 Acquisition
PlantsTokyo Plant
Niigata Plant
Mizushima Plant
Yokkaichi Plant*
Osaka Plant
Yamakita Plant
Kashima Plant

Month/year of
Acquisition
Oct. 1998
Jun. 1998
May 2000
Aug. 1999
Nov. 1999
May. 2000
Feb. 1999

Certifying
Bodies
DNV
DNV
JCQA
JQA
JQA
JQA
JQA

*Naniwa Plant (acquisition in 2001) and Saga Plant are included.

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Overall Safety Management

Middle Term Targets and Results of Activities infiscal 2003
Since 1997, we have been promoting responsible care activities with “Zero Accident, Zero Occupational Injury andEnvironmental Preservation” as our environmental and safety targets. Our main activities have been promoting
autonomous safety management in the areas of occupational health and safety, process safety and disasterprevention, and reduction of chemical substance emission and waste reduction in the area of product stewardshipand environmental preservation.
In fiscal 2002, almost all of our high pressure gas facilities acquired autonomous safety inspection license, andattained 20% reduction of emission of substances specified in the PRTR Law (bench mark: 1999) and an 80%
reduction of final waste landfill (bench mark: 1995). We anticipate to obtain good results in future with respect toenergy saving and CO2 reduction, both affecting global warming issues.
History of our Environmental and Safety Activities

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Results of Activities in fiscal 2003

●Equipment accident: zeroLabor accident: 2●Sharp increase in near accident proposals in 5S
activities●Additional certification on the high pressure gas
facilities in Niigata Plant●Confirmation of process safety and disasterprevention and keeping compliance with laws
Supply of environmen●Development of environmentally ●Development of MX nylon film and such environment- related
products as hydrogen peroxide and deoxidizer, etc.
tally friendly and safetyfriendly products and technologies●Implementation of environmental assessment on
considered products andresearch and development themes
technologies●Safety test: 73●Implementation of safety●Use of MSDS in JIS form started.
assessment of products●HPV leading company examination completed for 3
substances●Management of environmental loads flow
Promotion of resource and●Reduction of raw material(input/output) at workplaces started.
energy saving in production
quantity used
●Improvement of unit energy consumption by 1%,
processes●Improvement of unit energy
and of added value by 9% per Unit
consumption by 1% annually(10% improvement against 1999
as bench mark)●Reduction of greenhouse effect ●CO2 emission increased. Emitting ratio of 5
greenhouse effect gasses was 0.2%
gas
●Management of emission into air and water
Promotion of●Appropriate management of●Management of dioxin emission from incinerators
environmental loads
substances with environmental
reduction
loads●PRTR specified substances reduced by 47%.
●20% reduction of substances(Legally regulated substances reduced by 20%)
specified in PRTR (bench mark:●Trial of chemical risk assessment
1999)●Emission of wastes reduced steadily,
Promotion of 3R’s of wastes ●Promotion of 3R’s of wastes
3R's: reduce, reuse and●Reduction of final landfill by 75% ●Final landfill reduced by 80%. Below 3% of final
landfill against total emission from plants achieved.
recycle(bench mark: 1995)●4 plants including Tokyo Plant attained zero emission.
●Promotion of zero emission
Environmental preservation in raw ● Set up of targets for reduction of ●Reduction of transportation frequency by modal shiftmaterial and product logistics
environmental loads
Information services for safe ● Presentation of up-to-date MSDS ●Distribution of MSDS in JIS form. Sticking of yellow
card to containers.
use, handling and disposal of●Wide area reinforcing system against logistics accidents
our products●Promotion of ISO 14001 acquisition (acquisition
Support to our subsidiaries and ●Enlightenment of theratio: 47%)
affiliates for environmental andenvironmental management
safety activities
systems●Summation of environmental and safety data started.
●Regularization of Information
Exchange Meetings●Publication of Environmental Report 2003
Enhancement of society’s●Information disclosure through●Presentation of environmental information to Ecoconfidence in us
environmental reports
Fund, etc. Participation in the explanation meetingssponsored by JRCC
●Promotion of communication with ●Promotion of interaction with local communities(beautification of plants’ nearby areas, opening of
local communities
our welfare facilities to the public)
Security of health, safety and ●Attainment of zero accident andenvironment inzero occupational injury
operations
throughout the year
●Improvement of autonomous
safety technologies（
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Middle Term RC Targets for fiscal 2005

Fundamental Policies

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Activity period: January 2003 − December 2003
(N.B. Items related to energy saving, environmental loads reduction and 3R’s of wasters were implemented in the period from April 2002 to March 2003.)

Overall Safety Management

Environmental Accounting
In order to ensure quantitative grasp and management of our environmental preservation activities, we introduced
environmental accounting in this fiscal year. We disclose the summation results for fiscal 2002 in this Environmental
Report. By continuing it, we intend to enhance effective implementation and transparency to society of ourenvironmental preservation activities.
In fiscal 2002, our investment amounts were 513 million yen
and expenditure amounts were 5,669 million yen. To copewith the increase of production volume, we enhanced thecapacity of waste water and emitted gas treatment. By theseinvestments, invest amounts for pollution prevention
exceeded 50% of the total cost. Waste treatment anddisposal expenditures place a large portion of our resourcerecycling cost. However, we gained 90 million yen income byselling valuable materials recycled from such wastes.
Pollution prevention investment

Pollution prevention investment

Catalytic combustion facility for
detoxification of gas emitted fromproduction processes

Emergency detoxification facility forhydrogen sulfide

Environmental Preservation Cost and Effects
Category

Investment Expenditure

Unit: ￥ million
Effects (increase/decrease compared to FY2001)

Air pollution prevention

296

2,235

Global environment
preservation cost

42

590

Resource recycling
cost

65

1,121

Up/downstream cost

6

18

Management activities cost

26

346

R & D cost

78

1,195

Social contribution
cost

0

8

Environmental damages
remedy cost

0

156

513

5,669

Cost within workplaces

Pollution prevention
cost

Total

・SOx emission
422 tons (＋38 tons)
・NOx emission
527 tons (−239 tons)
・Soot and dust emission
62 tons (＋11 tons)
Water contamination prevention
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3・Water used
33 Mil. M (−9 Mil. M )・COD emission
304 tons (−88 tons)
・Total nitrogen emission
381 tons (−259 tons)
・Total phosphorus emission
62 tons (＋15 tons)
・Energy used
518 Kkr(±0 Kkr) (converted to crude oil)
Participated in a joint development project for geothermal generation 22 Kkr(converted to crude oil)
1,515 Ktons (＋55 Ktons)
・CO2 emission
・Waste generation
110 Kton (−3 Ktons)
・Recycling ratio (outside and inside recycling)
59% (−1%)・Final landfill
0.5 Kton (−0.6 Kton)
・Contributed to environmental preservation by selling water treatment agent.
・Controlled dioxin generation from incineration by changing ageless external packaging bags to non-halogen
material.
・Used resource effectively by collecting and reusing used polyethylene cans.
・Efforts to reduce environmental loads by reinforcing monitoring of waste water and gas emission.
・All plants acquired ISO 14001, based on which we maintain our activities.
・Our environmental assessment system reinforced for chemical substances we handle. (PRTR substances, etc.)
・We are promoting development of products related to environmental preservation, such as chemicals forenvironmental improvement.
・We are promoting research and development related to clean energy.
・We are implementing improvement research of production technologies to reduce environmental loads.
・We conducted tree planting to protect the environment of local communities.
・We participated in activities sponsored by local governments and local communities, including cleanup andother activities.
・Levy on SOx loads, etc.

Economical Effects
Income from selling
valuable materials

90

Sales of fertilizer recycled from wastes, solid fuel from dust (RDF),
fuel from waste liquids, etc.

Contents of Summation in FY 2002:
・Summation period: April 1, 2002 to March 31, 2003
・Our environmental accounting conforms to the Environmental Accounting Guidelines : 2000 of Ministry of the Environment.
・Scope of summation: All our workplaces (7 plants, 2 manufacturing sites, 4 research laboratories, and all the subsidiaries and affiliates located in
our workplaces and implementing environmental activities jointly with us)
・Methods of summation:
Investment amounts: The ratios related to environmental preservation are pro-rata summated from the approved budget during the fiscal period.
Expenditure amounts: Expenditure for environmental preservation activities. Depreciation amounts are counted in.
Economical effects: Only the items that can be expressed in terms of monetary unit are summated in amount. Other items are expressed by thephysical quantity units or main accomplishments.

5Overall Safety Management

Responsible Care Audits

RC Promotion Report Meetings
In fiscal 2003, RC Promotion Report Meetings were held in
September to October, with “promotion of the new 5S
activities”, “reduction of equipment and process failure”,“management and utilization of environmental and safety
information” and “reduction of environmental risks” as thetargeted items. The RC internal audit item was“environmental preservation”, and the director’s directive
was “all-out accident prevention and compliance with thelaws”.
It was confirmed that each of our workplaces steadily
implemented the targeted items in the changing businessenvironment, compliance with laws and regulations, green
procurement, etc. and that we were making utmost efforts
for safety and environmental preservation. The meetings
have presented improvement subjects as follows.

The Entire Company’s Improvement Subjects
1. To grasp and assess the quantity of emitted substances
being the objects of environmental management at each
workplace.
2. To review and promote zero emission of wastes.
3. To review the promotion of near accidents improvement
proposals, and reinforce guidance and education ofsubsidiaries and affiliates.

[Head Office][Workplace]

RC Promotion Report
Meeting(RC audits)

Notice of RC Promotion
Report Meeting

Reporting Items
1. Implementation status
of targeted items
2. RC internal audits results
3. Confirmation matters andimprovement subjects
presented in the previous
year
4. Director's directives, etc.

RC internal audits plan

RC self assessment byworking groups

RC internal audits byworking groups

Improvement
subjects

RC internal audits reports
Auditors(director in charge,
etc.)

RC Promotion Report
Meeting by workplace

Environment & Safety
Managers' Meetings

RC audits records

Confirmation
matters

Confirmation mattersby workplace

Environment &Safety Meetings
RC audits reports(with improvement
subjects)

Flowchart of RC Promotion Report Meetings

Confirmation Matters of Workplaces for Next Fiscal YearThe confirmation matters of each workplace for next fiscal
year, presented in accordance with respective proceeding
status, importance and emergency, are as follows:
Tokyo Plant

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Structuring of crisis communication
Promotion of zero final landfill and zero inside incineration
Niigata Plant
Reduction of claims and complaints against odor
Reduction of ethylene oxide emission
Mizushima Plant Promotion of energy saving
Promotion of reduction countermeasures against benzene
emission
Yokkaichi Plant Unification of near accidents proposals and small group
activities
Reinforcement of analysis/assessment of environmental
and safety data
Osaka Plant
Promotion of waste reduction and zero emission
Yamakita Plant Active utilization of RC teaching materials
Reduction countermeasures against environmental loads
based on the data assessment
Kashima Plant
Measures for harmful gas leakage and all-out management
Reduction of dichloromethane emission
4 R&D institutes Study of environmental assessment criteria forenvironmental products, research and development
Head Office and Divisions
Reinforcement of inter-divisional collaboration systems
Enhancement of education on environmentally friendly
products

Improvement
reports

above: RC Promotion Report
Meetingright: Self assessment check
list

following year

In order to confirm the proceedings of our responsible care(RC) activities, we annually hold at each sector the RC
Promotion Report Meeting (RC audits) chaired by the
director in charge of the environment and safety. This
meeting comprises reporting on implementation status oftargeted items in all the RC areas, self assessment by eachworking group unit according to our unique check lists, andinternal audits based on these in each workplace.

Overall Safety Management

Activity Targets in fiscal 2004
Fiscal 2004 is the latter half our middle term plan. We intend to have RC activities take root further in the subsidiaries
and affiliates of our Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Group. In concrete, our plans include promotion of green procurement
and zero emission, and support to our subsidiaries and affiliates for their environmental preservation activities. We
also take energy saving and CO2 reduction as important subjects.
Fundamental Policies

Activity Targets in fiscal 2004

1

Security of health, safety and environment in
operations● Measures for facilities by risk assessment of occupational health and safety● Acquisition of continual operation certification by our plants located in the industrial
complexes2

Supply of environmentally friendly and safety- ● Raw material procurement and product supply under the green procurement guidelines
considered products and technologies● Application of the green purchase guidelines

3

Promotion of resource and energy saving in
production processes● Drastic improvement of unit energy consumption (bench mark: 2002)

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Promotion of environmental loads reduction● Reduction of PRTR substances (ethylene oxide)● Implementation of chemical risk assessment

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5

Promotion of 3R's of wastes● Establishment of zero emission promotion plans● Volume reduction of outside incineration and final landfill

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6

Environmental preservation in raw material
and product logistics● Reduction of environmental loads by promoting modal shift● Promotion of eco-drive to transporters

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Information services for safe use, handlingand disposal of our products● Promotion of management of up-to-date logistics safety information

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Support to our subsidiaries and affiliates forenvironmental and safety activities● Promotion of ISO 14001 acquisition (acquisition ratio: 50%)
● Target setting for environmental loads reduction (measures for wastes, etc.)

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9Enhancement of society's confidence in us● Publication of Environmental Report 2004 (opening website for the English version)● Distribution of the environmental reports to local communities

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Environmental Objectives and Targets of our Workplaces under ISO 14001
Plant

Resource and Energy Saving

Environmental Loads Reduction

Waste Reduction

TopicsTokyo Plant

Improvement of unit energy

Shift of fuel to city gas

Volume reduction of final landfill and

Structuring of emergency

consumption by 1%(abolition of equipment using

outside incineration by 20% (2005/2003) management systems(bench mark: 2002)

heavy oil)

Reduction of fuel and electric● Drastic reduction of ethylene oxide

Niigata Plant

power consumption by 3.8%

emission

Reduction by 9%

Recovery of energy of steam(bench mark: 2002)pressure conversion

Attainment of zero emission in 2005

Renewal of certification for● Reduction of claims against odor
(bench mark: 2002)
Mizushima

Reduction of unit energy

Improvement of drainage loads

Plant

consumption by 6%(BOD) by 1%(bench mark: 1998)(bench mark: 2002)

Yokkaichi

Improvement of unit energy

Reduction of air● Final landfill no more than 50 tons

Promotion of communication with

Plant

consumption by 2%

pollutants by 40%● Reduction of outside incineration

local communities(bench mark:1997)(bench mark: 2001)

Osaka Plant

high pressure gas facilities

Energy saving by improvement of Review of environmental management Final landfill in 2004 to be no more

Attainment of zero emission in 2006

than 2% of generated quantity

unit material consumption in
production processes
Yamakita

Improvement of unit energy● Reduction of drainage loads

Waste generation unit to be no more

Reinforcement of drainage

Plant

consumption by 1%● Noise at the site border to be nothan that of 2001

management

Reinforcement of dichloromethane

Reduction of waste generation by 10%

Implementation of chemical risk

emission management(bench mark: 2002)assessment

All-out management of PRTR

Study of zero emission,

Study of environmental

substances in small quantities

Recycling of glass bottles

assessment criteria for research(bench mark: 2002)
Kashima Plant Improvement of unit energy
consumption by 2%

more than that of 2001

(bench mark: 2002)
4 ResearchLaboratories

Electric power and water savingand development

For environmental loads data of these plants, please refer to PP.28-29.

7Occupational Health and Safety

Our Operation of Occupational Health and
SafetyOperation of Occupational Health and Safety
We are aiming at achieving zero accident and zero occupational injury through autonomous improvement activities
based on our RC activities. Our occupational health and safety management is implemented in accordance with the
Occupational Health and Safety Management System conforming to that of Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. In
all of our workplaces, we have been training the instructors for the new 5S activities, and promoting overall safety
activities aiming at employee education and productivity improvement. These have resulted in a drastic increase of
the near accident proposals and enhancement of risk awareness and prevention, which has promoted energetic
autonomous improvement activities.

Small Group Activities
New 5S activities
Safety patrol
Pointing and calling
Risk awareness andprevention activities

Risk
factors

Transition of near accident
proposals

Device10,000D
D ee vv ii cc ee

8,000

Autonomous
improvement(equipment
countermeasures)

Near accident proposals
Occupational health andsafety risk assessment

Proposals

Scheme of MGC’s Small Group Activities

6,000
4,000
2,000
0
1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

Year

Occupational Health and Safety Risk Assessment
Further, we have introduced the occupational health and safety risk assessment which is a tool to quantitatively
identify the causes of dangers and accidents, in order to nullify them completely. We estimate occupational healthand safety risks from among the near accidents, prioritize them and pursue the causes by analysis methods
according to respective risk levels, in order to take measures.
[Estimation of occupational health and safety risks]= [hazard] x [frequency] x [importance]
Legal response (legal arrangements, measurements)

HazardDanger (functional, physical, chemical, inflammable, explosive, etc.)
Frequency

Hazard occurrence (frequency, sate of emergency, etc.)

Importance

Influence to labor accidents

Safety Results
In 2003, our eight workplaces out of 11 achieved zero accident and zero occupational injury which was our safetytarget. No equipment incident occurred. As to labor accidents, however, there were 2 cases by absenteeism and 12
cases by non-absenteeism. As most of these accidents occurred in July and August, we issued an emergency
request for all-out prevention of occupational injury, under the name of the director in charge of the environment andsafety, calling for reinforcement of occupational injury prevention in all of our workplaces, subsidiaries and affiliates.
With respect to occupational injury by absenteeism in 2003, our frequency rate (number of casualties per 1 million
labor hours) was 0.53 and severity rate (number of days lost per 1000 labor hours) was 0.02. Since 1972, ourfrequency and severity rate have declined, although the declining tendency has slowed down these few years.
Transitio
on of frequency rate
6.0

MGC

5.0
4.0

All manufacturers
Chemical industries

Transittion of severity rate
1.2
1.0
0.8

3.0

0.6

2.0
1.0

0.4
0.2

0.0

MGC
All manufacturers
Chemical industries

0.0'72 '74 '76 '78 '80 '82 '84 '86 '88 '90 '92 '94 '96 '98 '00 '02'72 '74 '76 '78 '80 '82 '84 '86 '88 '90 '92 '94 '96 '98 '00 '02

Health Care8

For prevention of diseases, we are encouraging our employees 35 years old and above to undergo health screening
checkups, in addition to statutory checkups. We are supporting their health enhancement by offering our own sports
facilities. In 2003, our corporate health insurance society made contracts with specialized institutions andcommenced mental health care for our employees.

Process Safety and Disaster Prevention

Our Operation of Process Safety andDisaster Prevention
Autonomous Safety Technologies
We are working on the advancement of our autonomous
safety technologies centering on high pressure gas
production facilities, and boilers and Pressure Vessel
Type 1. In 2003, our Niigata Plant acquired qualification of
the “certified completion and process safety inspector”
based on High Pressure Safety Act for its 6 high pressure
gas production facilities. With this arrangement, we haveacquired approval qualification for almost all of our highpressure gas production facilities. This approval system
permits implementation of safety inspection byautonomous management at workplaces, technologicaland management levels of which are certified as excellent
by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry.
Our Mizushima, Yokkaichi and Niigata Plant haveacquired approval qualification for continual operation ofboilers and Pressure Vessel Type 1. Kashima Plant isaiming at acquiring it in 2004.
In order to assist safety and accident prevention activities
as experts, we are educating our employees to obtain
official titles, such as high pressure gas production safetycontroller, boiler engineer, nondestructive inspector andequipment maintenance engineer.

Workplaces with Autonomous Safety Approval for High Pressure Gas
WorkplaceTime of Approval

Number of Facilities

Mizushima Plant

Dec. 1999

2 newly approved

Jun. 2000

2 addedDec. 2000

2 addedApr. 2001

1 addedDec. 2000

7 newly approved

Sept. 2003

6 addedNiigata Plant

Workplaces with Approval for Boilers and Pressure Vessel Type 1
Workplace Time ofApproval

Mizushima May 1997 2 year continual operation newly approved
Plant

Emergency Management
We have established our accident prevention systems tominimize the damages in cases of accident. Each of ourworkplaces has set up its accident prevention activity
rules, based on which it regularly implements educationand training of employees for appropriate response.
Furthermore, our Niigata, Mizushima, Yokkaichi andKashima Plant, to which the “Petroleum Complex Accident
Prevention Act” is applied, have entered into the “Regional
Joint Accident Prevention Agreement” and structured amutual aid system in case of emergency.
In 2003, we reviewed our internal Special Rules for
Earthquake Disaster and Accident Prevention, in
accordance with enforcement of the “Special Measure Act
for Promotion of Earthquake Disaster and Accident
Countermeasures in the Tonankai and Nankai Districts.”

Dec. 2000 4 year continual operation added
Apr. 2002 2 year and 4 year continual operation renewed
Dec. 2003 2 year and 4 year continual operation added

Yokkaichi

Aug. 1997 2 year continual operation newly approved

Plant

Aug. 2002 2 year continual operation renewed

Niigata

Dec. 1997 2 year continual operation newly approved

Plant

Nov. 2002 2 year continual operation renewed

Process Safety and Disaster Prevention Management
We hold every year the RC Promotion Report Meeting,chaired by the director in charge of the environment andsafety, for all the workplaces in order to direct and guideon process safety and disaster prevention in our
responsible care activities. Depending on the cases we
implement environment and safety inspection.
In 2003, large scale accidents occurred successively inchemical plants. In view of this, our director in charge ofthe environment and safety called for all-out process
safety and disaster prevention management andcompliance with laws at each of our workplace. All our
workplaces recognized not only compliance with laws but
the principle of autonomous safety management, andworked on reinforcement of safety together with our
subsidiaries and affiliates in order to prevent accident
occurrence.

Operation Period

Mar. 2003 2 year continual operation added

Number of Employees with Main Official Titles
Title

Number Statutory Number

High pressure gas production andsafety controller

987

216

Boiler engineer

776

45

Energy controller

8930

Pollution controller

181

33

Dangerous materials controller

1,947

176

Poisonous materials controller

119

6Specified industrial waste disposal
controller

27

8

Occupational health controller

80

16

Certified environmental measurer

28

3

ISO 14001 internal auditor

154−

Nondestructive inspector (NDI)

48−

Equipment maintenance engineer

95

−

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Training for accident prevention in workplace

Product Stewardship

Environmentally Friendly Products and Research andDevelopment
We are aggressively working on the development of products and technologies, which contribute toenvironmental preservation and are friendly to human health and safety.
We are aiming at building an affluent society through a wide range of value creation based on chemical
science.
New Drainage Treatment Method and Agent
MX Nylon Film
Needs are arising for high gas barrier quality in foodpackaging materials for prevention of food oxidization
or deterioration. Conventionally in the film segment,
chlorinated resins were the main materials. But, dioxin
emission from incineration is their problem today.
MX Nylon, which we have developed and sell and ismade of non-halogen resin, has been receiving higher
evaluation year by year thanks to its environmentallyfriendly property. Particularly in America and Europe,
our MX Nylon is valued as high gas barrier polymer for
making multi-layer PET bottles which are most suitable
to the recycling system.
MX Nylon Film
Multi-layer PET bottles

Characteristics●High gas barrier●Non-halogen

RP system deoxidized
packagingabove: books
bottom: excavated sword

Applications● Transportation of electronicparts, Preservation of oxidization●Preservation of cultural property
insecticide, fungus resistance,
rust proofing, moisture/corrosivegas absorption●Transportation, storage and rust
proofing of precision parts(oil coating not necessary)

Drainage treatment agent
catalogs

ASC Super and the adding
device[OR-SON AT]
Conventionally, it has been difficult to decompose organic
chemical substances by biodegradation. But, we haveattained advancement of decomposition efficiency byenabling decomposition of these substances. We have also
succeeded in reducing the sludge volume to one-fifth of theconventional level, and at the same time, advanced
workability by accelerating its sedimentation.
Sludge: Suspended minute particles in the drainage turned into mud by coagulationand sedimentation[Dia Fresh Series]
F-SON : The new drainage standard is be enforced in July 2004
setting the maximum content of fluorine must not be more than
8ppm. F-SON is a fluorine separating agent that enables easycompliance with the new standard.
NOESOL AG : This is an abherent for solvent type coating mist.
It removes tackiness caused by coating mist dispersed incirculating water in the wet coating booth for automobiles, etc.
and also enables easy recovery of the mist.
NEOPOCK : This is an agent which effectively coagulates andseparates water-soluble paints and water-soluble polymer
molecule contained in the drainage.
[ASC Super]This is an agent to decompose hydrogen peroxide into waterand oxygen by enzyme. Under a wide range of conditions, itenables perfect decomposition by adding it in a very small
quantity. It is used for the drainage treatment in manyindustrial fields.

Environmentally FriendlyPrint-Circuit Board Material
RP Preservation System

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The main applications of deoxidizer are maintenanceof flavor and taste of foodstuff (AGELESS) andtransportation of electronics parts. Another generally
unknown application is preservation of culturalproperty, such as insecticidal treatment and fungus
resistance.
Conventionally for this application was used methyl
bromide gas, which is an ozone layer depleting andpoisonous substance. RP System performs perfectinsecticidal treatment by nullifying oxygen in airtightbags. It is also advantageous that people dealing with
cultural property do not have to use methyl bromide.
Another example of applications is rust proofing of
precision parts during transportation and storage.

In many cases, soldering is
adopted to fit electronics parts
onto print-circuit boards. As lead,the soldering material, holds an
BT Laminated Board
environmental problem in its
Pre-Preg
emission, however, a new typeof lead-free soldering material is developed. The higher
melting point of the new soldering material compared tothat of the current materials necessitates heat resistantmaterials for print-circuit boards.
To comply with such demand, we have developed andsupply our high performance FR-4 material, based on BT
Resin with excellent heat resistant property, as the printcircuit board material for semi-conductor package. We also
supply “halogen-free” laminated board material which does
not contain brominated epoxy resin as fire retardant.

We are developing environment-related products and technologies by utilizing our main products such ashydrogen peroxide, methanol and deoxidizer.
Products utilizing hydrogen peroxide

Memory Green Crystal
A greening system for easy watering andmaintenance of rooftop gardens and plantpots. Instead of natural soil, our Memory Green
Crystal (water-retention resin in gel form) andartificial light-weight soil are used.

DEOPOWERDESLIM

Sewage・drainage deodorant

Water treatment agent

High-purity hydrogen production
equipment utilizing methanol

ELM Series
Ultra high-purity chemicals forsemi-conductor washing

Products utilizing oxygen absorbers

MGC-MH Process

AGELESS

Production of high-purity hydrogen from methanol andwater for application in electronics and fine chemicals

Deployment to freshness-keeping of foodstuffs,
and preservation of pharmaceuticals and toiletries

A flower pot at Naka-dori, Marunouchi,Tokyo

AnaeroPack
Culturing system of anaerobic microorganisms in
hospitals

A rooftop garden
upper: MH plant
lower: MH unit

Environment-related Research and Development
We are progressively implementing the development of environmentallyfriendly products and environmental preservation technologies. Our
expenditure for environment-related development is about 15% of thetotal research and development expenditure, about one-third of which isspent for our new business areas. Several themes, such as RDF, Memory
Green Crystal, have been materialized and got in operation already.
As regards the environmental loads reduction field, we prioritize
reduction of hazardous chemical substances and resource saving in our
research and development. Besides, we are working aggressively andcontinually on the improvement of production technology to obtainmethanol and dimethyl ether from clean natural gas, and on the research
to utilize these materials as the clean energy sources of fuel batteries

Breakdown of our Expenditure
for Environment-related R&D(by Business Segment)New
segments
32%

Existing
segmetns
38%

Business segments
surrounding theexisting segments
30%(by Environmental Loads
Reduction Segment)
Waste
reduction
6%

Resource
saving42%

Reduction of
hazardous
chemical
substances52%

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Product Stewardship

Safety Management of Chemical Substances
We are promoting safety management of chemical substances and our products with awareness of theirimpacts to the environmental and human health throughout their entire life cycle. We provide our customers
actively with necessary information on safe use, care to be taken in handling, and proper disposal methodsof our products.
Flowchart of Chemical Substances and Products Safety Assessment
HazardAssessment
Tests

Product
Development
Checking with orwithout using new
substances
Collection of safety
data

Nature, inflammability,
ignitability, explosibility,
reactivity, toxity, corrosion
behavior, carcinogenicity,
biodegradability, etc.

HazardClassification
United Nationsclassification
Japaneseclassification
Applicable laws

Judgment on
Introductionof a New
Product tothe Market

SafetyInformation
MakingMSDS
Product Caution Label
Yellow Card

Risk assessment

Product
SupplyTransportation,
storage,use,
consumption,
disposal

Information from customers

In our research and development, and development and introduction to the market of our new product, we comply
with the Product Safety Assessment Standards to confirm the registration status of relevant chemical substances,
necessary data, and collect necessary data such as hazard information, environmental impacts information, in
addition to confirming their hazard classification and applicable laws. Based on these works, we prepare safety
information such as MSDS, product caution label and yellow card.
We are also making utmost efforts to reduce risks as much as possible, by providing our customers with appropriate
information confirming their application, use and disposal methods of our products.

Safety Tests
There are a number of test methods to assess hazard ofchemical substances and products.
We conduct all necessary tests to judge hazard inaddition to the statutory tests.
We have appropriate facilities to conduct internally themain tests relevant to the environment and health. Other
tests are entrusted to external testing bodies.
In 2002, we conducted 73 tests on hazard andenvironmental impacts safety. The table below gives thebreakdowns of tests.
Testing Items

Safety Test Wing
Niigata Research Laboratory

Number of Tests

Biodegradability

10

Mutagenicity

17

Chromosomal abnormality

2

Acute toxity/ toxity of repetitive dosing for 28 days

21

Skin primary irritation, corrosion behavior, sensitivity

22

Other

1

In the safety test facility of our Niigata ResearchLaboratory, we are conducting tests relevant to theenvironment and health as follows.

GLP Test Equipment

Degradability test (GLP certified facility)
Mutagenicity test (GLP certified facility)● Acute toxity test
● Skin primary irritation/corrosion behavior test
● Skin sensitivity test
● Pathogenicity test●●

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Whether a material is designated as a hazardous
material under the Fire Defense Law (Class 2, Class 4,etc.) is determined by the quality assurance departmentof our Tokyo Research Laboratory and other main
workplaces.

GLP Facility Certificate(above: Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare
below: Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry)

GLP: Good Laboratory Practice. Data from GLP
approved facilities are used as official safety data.

Product Stewardship

Safety Information Services
MSDS and Safety Technological Information
Safety information we provide comprises MSDS,
product caution label, yellow card, safety guidelines
and product catalogs.
About 40% of our entire product items are the objectof legal obligations for making and supplying MSDS.
However, we make MSDS on all of our total about
1,100 product items and supply them with ourcustomers, transporters and sales agents.
In May 2003 we started to supply parties concernedwith our MSDS in JIS form. Upon revision to the JIS
form, we reviewed the safety and hazard level of our
products and expression thereof in accordance with
the United Nations Classification Standards.
With respect to the products with higher hazard level,
we present information on their hazardous nature in
the product catalogs, and, prepare and supply safety
technological data as circumstances demand.

26 Substances under our Co-sponsorshipformaldehyde

triethylamine

N,N-dimethylformamide

dimethylamine, in aqueous solution

methylamine,solution

benzene-1,2,4-tricarboxylic acid 1,2-anhydridehydrogen cyanide

methacrylic acid, 2-ethylhexyl ester

trimethylamine,solution

2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate

phthalic anhydrideammonia, aqueous solution

ammonia, anhydrous

tris(2-ethylhexyl) benzene-1,2,4-tricarboxylate

p-xylene

dipotassium peroxodisulphatem-xylene

diammonium peroxodisulphate

diethylamine

sodium dithionite

dimethyl ether

disodium peroxodisulphate

butyl methacrylatemethacrylic acid, 2-(diethylamino)ethylester

disodium carbonate,compound with hydrogen peroxide (2:3)[2-(methacryloyloxy)ethyl]trimethylammonium chloride
HPV: High Production Volume Chemicals
HPV Initiatives: Safety assessment activities implemented
autonomously by ICCA (International Council for
Chemical Industry Associations) for chemical
substances produced 1,000 tons or more per year

Cooperation in LRI Initiatives
As a member of Japan Chemical Industry Association(JCIA), we also participate in the ICCA’s LRI Initiatives
and support the activities from financial aspect. JCIA, amain member body of ICCA, is working on basic
researches on endocrine disrupting substances,chemical carcinogenesis, chemical sensitivity, etc.
MSDS in JIS Form
Safety Guidelines
Product Catalog

MSDS: Material Safety Data Sheet
Necessary information for safe handling of chemical materials andproducts is noted in this document. As regards products and materials
containing the substances specified in PRTR (Pollutants Release andTransfer Register) Law, Occupational Health and Safety Law andHazardous Materials Control Law, it is legally obligated to submit
MSDS in JIS form by the end of 2004.

Cooperation in HPV Initiatives
As a participant in HPV Initiatives of ICCA, we aresupporting its safety assessment activities forchemical substances of high production volume.
Japanese enterprises participate in assessment of
330 substances, of which 43 are participated in by
Japanese as leaders.
We participate in 3 substances as leader and 26 ascosponsor. As to the 3 substances under ourleadership, the OECD examination on their safetyassessment reports have been completed.
3 Substances under our Leadershipm-phenylenebis(methylamine)
2-dimethylaminoethyl methacrylatem-Toluic acid

LRI: Long-range Research Initiatives: Basic research activities, jointly
promoted by ICCA’s members, which are estimated to take a long
period of time to solve safety scientifically and develop more
effective test and assessment methods of chemical substances.

■Green Procurement■
From our standpoint as being a raw materials supplier, wehave complied with customers’ requests by examining thecontents of environment-concerned chemical substances
specified by them.
In this year, we implemented surveys on two cases with ourvendors. One is on their response status to the environment.
The other is on the contents of environment-concerned
chemical substances according to ranks, which includes
the object substances of JGPSSI (Japan Green
Procurement Survey Standardization Initiative), an
organization mainly composed of electric/electronicequipment industries.
In accordance with these surveys, we make up our Green
Procurement Guidelines, and promote our activities for
reduction of environmental loads, request to our vendors forstructuring their environmental management systems andthe prioritized use of environmentally friendly raw materials.

■Green Purchase■
We have implemented green purchase by each
workplace. We are going to make up our Green Purchase
Guidelines in order to promote it by Mitsubishi Gas
Chemical Group as a whole.
Green Procurement/Purchase In purchasing merchandises, service
and raw materials, priority is given to
those with less environmental loads.

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Environmental Preservation

Environmental Loads in Business Operations
Flow of the actual results of environmental loads
shows a general view of the input invested for
manufacturing products: material chemicals,
energy, and water, and the output discharged into
the environment: emission into the air, drainage tothe water area, and discharged wastes. The chart
below shows the flow of the actual results ofenvironmental loads associated with our business
operations.
Principal results of reducing environmental loads infiscal 2002 by the Responsible Care activities are
as follows:●As regards save-resources/save-energy, unit energy
consumption improved at almost all plants.
●Emission volumes of PRTR law specified substances were reduced by
20% of the standard value in fiscal 1999.
●As regards waste reduction, final landfill volumes werereduced by 80% of the standard value in fiscal 1995.

Toward the future we will likewise continuously takethe initiative for an efficient utilization of input items
as well as the reduction of output items.

Input items
Consumption of material chemicals：Purchased volumes of chemical materials
directly used for manufacturing products.
Consumption of energy：An aggregate amount of fuels (heavy oil, etc.),
purchased steam, and purchased electric power consumed in business
operations.
Used volumes of water：Total amount of city water, industrial water, etc. used forbusiness operations.

Output items
CO2：Volumes of carbon dioxide (CO2) gas emitted associated with business
operations.
SOx：Volumes of SOx contained in the emitted gas from each combustion
facility.
NOx：Volumes of NOx contained in the emitted gas from each combustion
facility.
Soot and dust：Volumes of soot, etc. contained in the emitted gas from each
combustion facility.
PRTR law specified substances
Emission volumes into the air：Emission volumes of the specified 43
substances into the air.
Volumes of drainage：Volumes discharged to the public water area after
treatment of drainage from business operations.
Emission volumes of COD：Value obtained multiplying volumes of drainage by
COD concentration in the drainage.
Emission volumes of total nitrogen：Value obtained multiplying volumes ofdrainage by nitrogen concentration in the drainage.
Emission volumes of total phosphorus：Value obtained multiplying volumes ofdrainage by phosphorus concentration in the drainage.
PRTR law specified substances
Drainage volumes to the water area Drainage volumes of the specified 43
substances to the public water area.
Discharged volumes of wastes：Volumes transferred for outside treatment of thewastes generated by business operations.
Final landfill volumes of wastes：Of the wastes transferred for external treatment,
the landfill volumes as final disposal.

Natural gas
31%
Heavy oil
18%
Purchased electric
power/steam
22%
Purchased fuel gas 10%
Coal
8%
Other fuels
11%

Consumption of water
33,416 km3

14City water
2%
Underground water 1%
Industrial water
73%
Others24%

Emissions into the air

518 kkr(Crude oil conversion)

1,515 k tons

SOx emissions

422 tons

NOx emissions

527 tons

Soot & dust emissions 62 tons
PRTR law specified substances
emissions into the air 477 tons

Drainage to thewater area

Consumption of energy

CO2 emissions

Drainage: 12,720 km3
COD emissions
304 tons
Total nitrogen emissions
381 tons
Total phosphorus emissions 62 tons
PRTR law specified substances
Drainage to the water area 45 tons

WastesMaterial Chemicals
1,208 k tons

BUSINESS OPERATIONS (9 Plants)

Shipment of
products
1,218 k tons

Discharged wastes
Transferred for external treatment
17,447 tons

Final landfill

527 tons

Environmental Preservation

Efforts for Preventing Global Warming
Energy Consumption

Emission Volumes of Greenhouse Gas

Our company has implemented, starting with theintroduction of co-generation for energy saving,
optimization of operating conditions in manufacturing
processes, waste heat recovery, adoption of highefficiency electric machineries, etc. In addition, we use
our best efforts for rationalization of energy
consumption as the energy management designatedplant at all plants.
In 2002 we determined our energy reduction target asshown below, and took the initiative in energy saving
activities.

At our company CO2 generated by fuel consumption
accounts for a large portion of total greenhouse gas. In
addition, other than fuels, reactive exhaust gas fromprocesses occasionally contains CO2. Therefore, weraised the accuracy of capturing such emission
volumes and modified the related emission volumes inand before fiscal 2001. Energy consumption in fiscal
2002 was almost the same as the amount in theprevious fiscal year, but the emission volumes of CO2
increased a little to total 1,515 thousand tons.

Emission Volumes of CO2

Long-term Target(k tons – CO2/yr)

We will strive to reduce value added unit energy consumption by
10% by fiscal year 2010, making the value in fiscal 1990 as
standard.

Implementation Plan in 2002
1. To improve energy consumption and value added unit energy
consumption by 1%.
2. To establish operation control value and assess energy saving.

In fiscal 2002 we achieved crude oil conversion 7.6
thousand kr of energy saving in the aggregate of allplants through efficiency enhancement of electricmachineries, electric power economization, process
improvement, reduction of steam consumption, etc.
Energy consumption was nearly at the same level of
518 thousand kr by crude oil conversion as in theprevious fiscal year, and improved by 1% compared tothe previous fiscal year at unit energy consumption
based on the turnover amount standard. Value addedunit energy consumption was improved by 9%, whichcleared the target in the single fiscal year.

2,000
1,500
1,000
500
0
1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003
forecast

Proportion by Source of Release of CO2
Waste incineration 5%
Electric power/Steam 14%

Process10%

Fuel
consumption
71%

5 kinds of greenhouse gas exist other than CO2, but
their emission volumes in fiscal 2002 were scarcecompared to CO2 at our company.

160

600

120

400

80

200

40
0

0
1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003
forecastenergy consumption

Primary unit (fiscal 1990=100)(Crude oil conversion kkr/yr)

Energy Consumption and Primary Unit
800

Emission Volumes of 5 Greenhouse Gases
MethaneNitrous oxide
Hydrofluorocarbons
Perfluorocarbons
Sulfur hexafluoride

0.2 k tons − CO2 conversion
2.1
0.5
0
0

unit energy consumption

Ozone Layer Depleting Substances
Clean Energy
At our company the use ratio of clean energy natural
gas is at high level of 31%, and yet we are further
pushing forward conversion of fuels to city gas (naturalgas) little by little.
In addition, we participate in the joint development ofgeothermal power generation, which is clean and notemits carbon dioxide (CO2), by means of supplying thepower company with steam generated utilizing
subterranean heat.

Flon, halon, etc. which deplete ozone layer in thestratosphere are ozone layer depleting substances.
We use flon in the enclosed system as refrigerant forfreezers and air-conditioners, but we have taken steps
to gradually discontinue the machinery and equipmentusing specified flon such as CFC (Chlorofluorocarbon),and to give destruction treatment through permitted
processors for recovered specified flon. We willcontinue to change to substitute flon such as HCFC
(Hydrochlorofluorocarbon).

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Environmental Preservation

Efforts for Air Pollutants Control

Rate of Emission Volumes to the Regulated Values

Mizushima Plant Exhaust gas denitrification unit

Emission Volumes of SOx
Emission volumes (tons/yr)

Our company is pushing forward with voluntarymeasures to reduce emissions of air pollutant
substances such as sulfur oxides (SOx), nitrogenoxides (NOx), soot and dust. SOx has beensuccessfully reduced up to this date by means ofattaching an exhaust gas desulfurization unit to eachcoal-fired boiler and converting fuel for small boilers to
low-sulfur heavy oil or city gas (natural gas).
Installation of the exhaust gas denitrification unit,
adoption of low-NOx burners, and improvement of the
combustion conditions have been implemented inorder to control NOx emission, while installation of dust
collectors and fuel conversion to city gas have been
executed for the purpose of reducing soot and dust.
In addition, there exist the regulated values by law andby agreements with municipalities. Each workplace
controls exhaust gas below the regulated emission
volumes in terms of concentration and total pollutant
load control.

1,200
900
600
300
0
1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2001

2002

2001

2002

Average of workplaces in fiscal 2002

38% (gross volume)

Soot & dust

20% (concentration)

As regards the emission volumes at workplaces infiscal 2002, NOx showed the results of 31%
improvement, but SOx increased 10% and Soot & dust
likewise added 20%, compared to the previous fiscal
year.

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Management of Incinerators
Our company has executed remodeling, renewal
and abolishment of the existing incinerators
corresponding to the reduction of dioxins viz.
strengthened legal control on combustion
temperature, CO concentration, etc. Specifically,
through reduction of wastes, outsourcing ofdisposal, etc., 10 out of 22 existed incinerators
have been abolished since 1998. In addition, an
incinerator was renewed and two incinerators
were newly installed at the time of installation of
the new production facilities.
14 incinerators are currently in operation, andstrict operation control has been conducted interms of maintenance of the combustion
temperature, measurement of exhaust gas
concentration, etc. Emission volumes of dioxins
have been controlled at 19mg − TEQ in total of 5
workplaces in fiscal 2002 (18mg − TEQ in fiscal
2001).

Emission Volumes of NOx
Emission volumes (tons/yr)

4% (gross volume)

NOx

1,200
900
600
300
0
1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

Emission Volumes of Soot & Dust
Emission volumes (tons/yr)

SOx

120
90
60
30
0
1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

SOx It is a generic term for Sulfur Oxides, which are noted as SOx. In
addition to Sulfur Dioxide (SO 2), Sulfur Trioxide (SO 3),
Sulfuric Acid (H 2 SO 4 ) mist, etc. are contained. Sulfur
content in fuels such as coal, heavy oil, etc. changes into
Sulfur Oxides at the time of combustion, which arecontained in exhaust gas and cause air pollution.
NOx Nitric Oxide (NO) and Nitric Dioxide (NO2) are jointly called as
Nitrogen Oxides. Nitrogen in fuels and in the air combineswith Oxygen and generates Nitrogen Oxides (NOx).
Nitrogen Oxides do harm to human health as well as raise
photochemical reaction by ultraviolet rays and generate
photochemical oxidants such as ozone in the air.
Soot and dust The term indicates soot which comes out at the time of
combustion of fuels and accompanying use of electric
furnaces and what not.

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Efforts for Water Area/Soil
COD Emissions
1,500

COD Emissions (tons/yr)

In order to prevent water pollution caused by effluent atrivers and waterfront areas, each workplace of ourcompany maintains drainage treatment equipment for
applying neutralizing treatment, activated sludge
process, coagulosedimentation treatment, etc. andmonitors drainage water quality.
Laws, ordinances and protocols have determineddrainage standard in terms of concentration, total
pollutant load control, etc. While regulated values varywith municipalities, each of our workplace discharges its
drainage to the public water area after making it clear
such restricted limits.

1,000

500

0
1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

Rate of Average Concentration to the Restricted Limits (infiscal 2002)
Oxygen demand (COD or BOD) 5 - 71% (Average 47%)In the aggregate of all workplaces in fiscal 2002, 22% at
COD and 40% at total nitrogen respectively decreased
compared to the previous fiscal year. Total phosphorus
increased by 32% as a result of an increase in
manufacturing products.

Total nitrogen, Total phosphorus These are causative substances of
eutrophication at the enclosed water area. Eutrophication meansa phenomenon that the enclosed water area such as lakes,
marshes, and gulfs come to have high productivity of organisms
as an increase of nutritious salts. It occasionally causes togenerate the red tide, etc. as a result of an extraordinary
increase of phytoplankton such as algae.

Yokkaichi Plant Activated sludge treatment system

Total Nitrogen Emissions
Total Nitrogen Emissions (tons/yr)

COD It is an indicator of water pollution. The volume of oxygen
consumed at the time organic substances in water have beenchemically decomposed by oxidative agent is called chemical
oxygen demand (COD). As regards pollution at rivers,
biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) is used, which indicates thevolume of oxygen consumed at the time organic substances inwater have been degraded by the function of microorganism.
Both indicate, the more increases the numerical value, thehigher climb the degrees of pollution.

1,500

1,000

500

0

PCB Control

Soil Contamination
Harm to human health becomes to be worried about,caused by environmental contamination such as soil
contamination and underground water contamination.
We will take steps to conduct preliminary surveys on
status of use of hazardous substances during operationof manufacturing plants, status of utilization ofunderground water in the neighborhood of
manufacturing plants, etc. Hereafter, pursuant tovoluntary management and in compliance with Soil
Contamination Countermeasures Law and municipalities’
ordinances, we will push forward to take measures.

1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2001

2002

Total Phosphorus Emissions
Total Phosphorus Emissions (tons/yr)

PCB (polychlorinated biphenyl) used to be in use as
insulation oil for transformers, condensers, etc., but itturns out that it has strong toxicity and is hardly
decomposed. We have 245 pieces of PCB containing
machineries used in the past in storage, and intend tocontinue strict control on them until public PCB
decomposition facilities currently under construction inseveral areas are completed and come into operation.

150

100

50

0
1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

Soil Contamination Countermeasures Law
This is a law to provide conducting
investigation of soil contamination for the
purpose of preventing harm to human healthcaused by soil contamination and taking
appropriate countermeasures whencontamination is turned out. The law was put
in force in February, 2003.

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Reduction of PRTR Object Substances
Our company has been taking the initiative in reducing the object substances for PRTR survey by Japan Chemical
Industry Association (JCIA) since 1995. The object substances for survey by JCIA amounted to 480 kinds in fiscal
2002, 70 substances of which have been handled by our company. Total emission volumes into the air/the waterarea/soil amounted to 816 tons in fiscal 2002, which have already attained the medium term target started in 2001
earlier than we planned. Suspension of production partly contributed to their decrease, but we reduced the emission
volumes principally by means of combustion treatment and strengthening of tank vent gas treatment operation.
Pollutant Release and Transfer Register. A
regulatory system which requires reporting ofemission volumes of environment contamination
substances into the air, waters and soil andtransferred volumes of wastes.

Emission Volumes (tons/yr)

Emission Volumes of JCIA's PRTR Object Substances
100

5,000
4,000
3,000

50
2,000
1,000
0

0

1994

1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

Emission Volumes

2000

2001

2005

TargetNumber of MGC’s Object Substances

Reporting the Data to the Government Basedon PRTR Law
Of PRTR law object 354 substances, 43 substances atour company in fiscal 2002 fell under the specified
substances. Our workplaces respectively submitted
their reports to the Government. The total emission
volumes amounted to 522 tons, 15% decrease
compared to the previous fiscal year. Emission
volumes into the air amounted to 477 tons, those into
the waters amounted to 45 tons, and there were noemissions into soil.

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2002

Number of Substances

PRTR

Medium Term Target
Making the figures in fiscal 1999 as
criteria, to reduce the emission
volumes of PRTR object substances
into the environment by 20% by fiscal
2005.

Also, total wastes and transfer volumes into sewerageamounted to 536 tons, which showed a 53% decrease
compared to the previous fiscal year. Reduction of theexternally treated waste volumes through increasing
incinerators largely contributed to the fine result.
The table below shows the reported volumes ofemission and transfer per substance. We will assess
the environmental risks of chemical substances(Chemical risk assessment) on the PRTR survey
results, and further proceed with effective reduction
measures.

PRTR Law Specified Chemical Substances（Actual Results in fiscal 2002）

Unit：tons/year

Cabinet Order No.

Air

Waters

Soil

Emission Total

Transfer Total

145

Dichloromethane (Methylene chloride)

Substance

310.4

0.0

0.0

310.4

13.2

227

Toluene

73.6

0.0

0.0

73.6

4.8

63

Xylene

64.7

0.0

0.0

64.7

20.4

283

Hydrogen fluoride & its water-soluble salt

1.2

15.0

0.0

16.2

0.1

42

Ethylene oxide

11.0

0.0

0.0

11.0

0.0

311

Manganese & its compound

0.0

10.0

0.0

10.0

4.4

304

Boron & its compound

0.0

8.3

0.0

8.4

1.1

40

Ethylbenzene

6.2

0.0

0.0

6.2

0.0

100

Cobalt & its compound

0.0

5.7

0.0

5.7

3.4

224

1,3,5-Trimethylbenzene

3.7

0.0

0.0

3.7

0.0
16.0

312

Phthalic anhydride

1.5

1.0

0.0

2.5

253

Hydrazine

0.2

1.9

0.0

2.1

0.0

310

Formaldehyde

0.7

1.3

0.0

1.9

0.0

299

Benzene

1.8

0.0

0.0

1.8

0.4

43

Ethylene glycol

0.0

1.5

0.0

1.5

0.0
30.0

320

Methyl methacrylate

1.2

0.0

0.0

1.2

313

Maleic anhydride

0.4

0.0

0.0

0.4

0.0

172

N,N-Dimethylformamide

0.4

0.0

0.0

0.4

13.9

54

Epichlorohydrin

0.2

0.0

0.0

0.2

0.3

272

Bis (2-Ethylhexyl) phthalate

0.0

0.1

0.0

0.1

69.0

Other 23 substances

0.1

0.0

0.0

0.2

359.2

43 substances total

477.3

44.9

0.0

522.1

536.1

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Reduction of Harmful Air Pollutants

Measures taken in fiscal 2002 to reduce Benzene
1. Strengthening the combustion treatment of exhaustgas containing Benzene (Introduced in 1998)
2. Recovery of Benzene in drain by fractional distillation(Implemented during fiscal 2001)

Emissions (tons/yr)

Gross Emission Volumes of Harmful Air Pollutants

1,000
800
600
400
200
0
1995

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

BenzeneEthylene oxide
Formaldehyde
Acetaldehyde
1,3-Butadiene (handling ceased)

Dichloromethane
1,000
800
600
400
200
0
1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003
forecast

BenzeneEmissions (tons/yr)

Together with measurement of the concentration of thechemical substances released in the air, our company
is engaged in estimate reckoning of air diffusion
utilizing related simulation soft. We have madeverification on several chemical substances mainly of
PRTR specified substances. Based on these, we willdraw up an effective reduction plan and implement it.

1998

Dichloromethane

200
150
100
50
0
1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003
forecast

Ethylene Oxide
Emissions (tons/yr)

Chemical Risk Assessment

1997

Our Handling Harmful Air Pollutants

1995

As far as Ethylene oxide is concerned, we have been
studying a more effective method to eliminate
hazardous substances. As we plan to install a new
system to eliminate harmful substances in fiscal 2004,
its substantial reduction will be expected in fiscal
2005.

1996

forecast

Emissions (tons/yr)

Harmful air pollutants are the substances which may
give harm to human health at even low concentration
through a long term intake after being emitted into theair. The chemical industry took the initiative with avoluntary management plan in reducing emissions of
air pollutants, making 12 substances as the objects,
on the basis of the criteria fiscal year of 1995, and has
implemented their reducing measures.
We, making our handling 6 substances as the objects,
pushed forward reduction of their emissions taking themeasures of sealing the facilities hermetically,
combustion treatment of exhaust gas, strengthening
recovery/cleaning/elimination from exhaust gas, etc.
At the second term plan making 1999 fiscal year as
the criteria year, we have continued to reduce
emissions of 5 substances excepting 1,3-butadiene
which we ceased to handle.
As regards emission volumes in fiscal 2002,
Acetaldehyde maintained zero emission and the threesubstances except for Ethylene oxide decreased
compared to the previous year. In fiscal 2003 grossemission volumes are forecast to decrease comparedto the fiscal 1999.

20
16
12
8
4
0

1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003
forecast

An example of simulation using software of air diffusion

Emissions (tons/yr)

Formaldehyde
20
16
12
8
4
0

1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003
forecast

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Environmental Preservation

Promoting 3R’s of Waste
Our company has positively been promoting control ofwaste generation (Reduce), Reuse, and Recycle, so
called 3R’s of Waste, and has taken the initiative in
reducing wastes.
Waste generation from our process in fiscal 2002
amounted to 110 thousand tons, a decrease of 3
thousand tons from the previous fiscal year. The
results were brought about partly because a certain
product yield was improved, but primarily due to thethen operating status.
As a result of the initiative in controlling waste
generation itself which we deem as our substantial
theme, we came to develop a production process of
Trimethylolpropane (TMP) without discharging Sodium
Formate as a by-product, which we alreadyindustrialized.
Outward emission volumes of wastes have steadily
been reducing since 1999. This improvement is as aresult of the fixation of our activities at our respective
workplaces for recycling (recovery and use ofvaluables, use for raw materials, etc.), and for
reducing waste volumes (dehydration andneutralization).
As our recycling rate (recycling rate = recycledvolume total ÷ waste generated volume × 100) has
transitioned for these three years more or less 60%, wewill hereafter strengthen our initiative in separation ofwastes and development of application for therecycled materials.
Recovery of valuables by strengthening separation of wastes
Reduction of waste solvents
Commercialization of by-products (residue/low boilingcomponent)
Selling waste plastics as valuables
Materialization of RDF at Tokyo Plant

Current Status of Waste Treatment (in fiscal 2002)

Internal
Treatment

Recycled
Volume53.0 k tons
(48%)

Volumes of Generation/Emissions of Waste and Its Recycling Rate
Volumes of Generation/Emissions (k tons/yr)

Recycling Rate (%)

150

70
60

120

50
90

40
30

60

20
30
10
0

0

1995

1996

1997

Generation
Volume1998

1999

Emission
Volume2000

2001

Recycling
Rate

Making Waste Management Appropriate
As far as wastes are concerned, problems relating to
inappropriate disposals such as illegal dumping, etc., andhazardous substances such as dioxins, etc. haveincessantly emerged one after another. As a result, public
control on waste disposal has been intensified more andmore. Our company prepared a waste management
guideline containing the gist of contents of modified laws
and ordinances. In addition, as our initiative in preventing
illegal dumping, we will strengthen the manifest
management concerning outsourcing waste treatment aswell as fill up the standard of selecting trustees andoccasional visits to such trustees.
Manifest System The waste generator delivers a manifest (slip),on which each undertaker of collection, transport, anddisposal, respectively, writes its necessary items such as
work contents. After all processes are completed, a copy ofthe filled-in manifest is returned to the waste generator.
Such manifest circulating system enables the waste
generator to manage the stream of processes of theoutsourcing waste treatment, and to implement
appropriate treatment of waste.

Unit: k (thousand) tons/year

ReducedVolume39.2 k tons
(36%)

Recycled
Volume11.1 k tons
(10%)

Reduced Volume
5.8 k tons (5%)
SimpleIncineration
Volume3.5 k tons

Waste
Released
Volume17.4 k tons
(16%)

Waste
Generation
Volume109.6 k tons
(100%)

External Treatment
InternallyLand-filled
Volume0 k tons
(0%)

20

2002

Final Landfill
Volume0.5 k tons(<1%)

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Zero Emission of Waste
Our company not only has taken the initiative in positively promoting 3R’s aiming at zero emission of waste, but also
has proceeded with the activities to reduce outward waste emission volume and final landfill volume. In fiscal 2002
we, earlier than we planned, achieved the Responsible Care mid term target of reducing 75% of the final landfill
volume in fiscal 1995 by fiscal 2005. We, therefore, clarified the definition of Zero Emission as the next target, andhave been promoting activities aiming at the target achievement at every workplace.
Waste emission volume in fiscal 2002 amounted to 17 thousand tons, and final landfill volume was 527 tons. The ratioof the final landfill volume to waste emission volume reduced to 3% in fiscal 2002, as opposed to 6% in fiscal 2001.

Zero Emission of Waste (definition)
While we control waste emission volume and reduce the simple incineration notaccompanying heat recovery,
we will achieve Zero Emission by the following two stage methods:
The 1st stage target: to reduce the final landfill volume to not more than 1% of
the waste emission volume.
The 2nd stage target: to make the final landfill volume zero.

Reduction of Final Landfill Volume
Externally treated waste volume in fiscal 2002
resulted in the reduction of 3 thousand tons foroutward emission volume, 2.6 thousand tons for
simple incineration volume, and 0.6 thousand tons
for final landfill volume. 4 workplaces out of 9
workplaces as the object have achieved the 1ststage target “To reduce the final landfill volume to
not more than 1% of the waste emission volume”.
Each workplace is engaged in the activities byclarifying its initiatives with the consciousness of“Wastes emitted outside are the resources” for the
purpose of reducing the final landfill volumeunlimitedly to zero.
Current applications of recycling are fertilizers,
cement raw materials, fuels (heat recovery), etc., andthe themes hereafter will be to change simple
incineration to heat recovery incineration as well as
an extension of applications by separation of sludge
and waste plastics. For this purpose we will put
stress on the point “To search for recyclable
enterprisers changing from up-to-this-date search fordisposable enterprisers”.

Kinds of Final Landfill Wastes
OthersCinders 8%

14%

Waste plastics 23%

Sludge 55%

Workplaces Having Achieved
Zero Emission
The 1st stage

Tokyo Plant
Yokkaichi Plant
Naniwa Plant
Kashima Plant

The 2nd stage

Tokyo Plant

Transition for Zero Emission
k tons/yr(Simple Incineration Volume: Collected since 2000)

7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
1955

1996

1997

1998

Simple incineration
volume1999

2000

Final landfill
volume2001

2002

RDF (Refuse Derived Fuel; Solidified Fuel)RDF at Tokyo Plant is solidified fuel madethrough compression molding with good quality
waste plastics, papers and wood as raw
materials. As weather-beaten materials or
garbage, etc. are never used for it, ours is astable RDF. After the recent RDF explosion
accident, an inspection by a local fire station
and Fire Defense Agency on the RDF
manufacturing equipment at Tokyo Plant was
made, but there was no guidance or pointing
out which might come into question. At present
we manage RDF as a combustible substance.

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Environmental Preservation

Initiative in the Environment at Distribution
Transportation of Raw Materials/Products
Our company has been taking various measures
having reduction of the environmental loads in view at
the time of transportation for delivery of raw materials,
shipment of products, or between factories. We havebeen companywidely developing the activities aiming
at environmental conservation during transportation
together with streamlined logistics. Through these
activities, such measures as change of transportationmeans (modal shift), reduction of transportation
volumes/transportation frequency, etc. have been
implemented. As a result, both the reduction ofenvironmental loads and the rise of transportation
efficiency could be realized at the same time.

Modal Shift
Modal shift from truck transportation to railroadtransportation enables to reduce emission of carbon
dioxide which causes global warming to approximately
1/10.
Our company intends to convert to railroadtransportation by introducing ISO containers and JR
containers from the transportation by trucks and lorries.
We will proceed with such modal shift likewise fromnow on, and aim at further reducing emissions ofcarbon dioxide.
Current our company’s transportation modes are as
follows:

Marine transportation
Land transportation
Railroad transportation
Others

1,233 thousand tons
945 thousand tons
10 thousand tons
853 thousand tons

Hydrogen peroxide ISO tank container (railroad transportation)

Reduction of Transportation Energy
As far as transportation is concerned, to reducetransportation volumes and/or to reduce transportation
frequency link directly with reduction of transportationenergy and reduction of exhaust gas.
There are some products which can reduce theirtransportation volumes by being transported at highconcentration. On the other hand, by changing to uselarger size containers during transportation from 10
tons to 20 tons, transportation frequency can be
reduced. We have proceeded with this strategy
obtaining recipients’ cooperation and joint efforts,
centering large-scale consumers. By this, for a part ofour products we could reduce the relatedtransportation frequency by 40% - 50%.
While we will further promote these initiatives, we arenow, having rationalization of transportation withinsight, under study of minimizing transportation energy
through reorganization of production bases,
introduction of some swap system incorporating othercompanies of the same trade, etc.

(Pipeline, Air transportation, etc.)

Encouragement ofeco drive

Taking in sober activities such asencouraging eco drive to even transporters,
we will aim at synthetic initiatives.
Tanker for the exclusive use of methanol (marine transportation)

To stop idling
Economic velocity
Emission volume of carbon dioxide which is22emitted at the time of carrying 1 ton's cargo at
the distance of 1 km
Automobile
0.35 kg CO2/ton km
Railroad
Vessel0.02 kg CO2/ton km
0.04 kg CO2/ton km

Inspection of air pressure of tires
Do not gun the engine when driving a car
Smooth startEnvironmental Preservation

Efforts for Safety during Distribution
While we offer our customers MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet) regarding handling of our products, we have been
making an offer of safety information regarding products handling during transportation by the yellow card, productwarning labels, etc. in a body with distributors and trading companies.

Yellow Card, Product Warning LabelAt the time of transportation of our products, we not
only represent the way of appropriate handling andremarks on the product label, but we make a productwarning representation on it.
As regards highly hazardous products, we makedrivers of trucks and lorries always carry the Yellow
Card (an emergency response card) containing safety
information such as hazardousness of the products,
emergency measures to take at the time of
distributional accident, applicable laws and regulations,etc. and we prepare for prompt treatment on theoccurrence of an accident.

Product Warning Label

Yellow Card

Container Yellow Card
As far as small-scale transportation and consolidation
are concerned for which emergency responses are
difficult to take, we introduced Container Yellow Card
based on “Guideline on Response Measures at an
Emergency” issued by Japan Chemical Industry
Association.
The product label contains a representation of the
product's “UN No.” and “Guideline No.”, which has thefunction of Yellow Card. This system is made for the
purpose of taking appropriate measures against an
accident by simply contacting relevant public offices
starting with Fire Defense Agency of “Guideline No.”

Guideline No.153
UN No.3267

Container Yellow Card

Wide-area Backup System against Accidents inDistribution
In preparation for the occurrence of leakage of
products or fire accidents, we reviewed our emergency
contact setup and have built up our wide-area backup
system connecting workplaces.
In the event that an accident should have occurred,
upon request of the shipping workplace, the workplacein charge of the wide-area backup compartment (aworkplace being able to make prompt response),
according to the relevant instructions, not only submit
to a fire fighting organ necessary information such as
MSDS, Yellow Card, technical information, etc., but alsooffer disaster prevention equipment and materials
reserved at the workplace and support initial activities.
With these backup services we trust that such system
will contribute to a prompt accident treatment andprevention from expansion of damage.
Yokkaichi Plant
Naniwa Plant

Tokyo Plant

Guideline on Response Measures at an Emergency(Issued by Japan Chemical Industry Association)

Wide-area Backup Compartment
at Accidents in Distribution

Niigata Plant

Mizushima
Plant

Head Office/Companies

Kashima Plant

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Saga Plant

Yamakita Plant

Our Affiliates’ Environmental/Safety Activities
Our company has 40 affiliated companies under group management including those by the equity method, of which
27 companies are engaged in manufacturing and handling chemical substances. Along with the shift to groupmanagement of enterprises, we have proceeded with constructing cooperative setup, and we have been supporting
Responsible Care (RC) activities likewise as MGC Group. In 2003, we established Information Exchange Meeting
consisting of 11 domestic affiliated companies (34 workplaces). As regards overseas affiliates, we have continuously
been supporting their RC activities by visiting their workplaces.

Information Exchange Meeting
Information Exchange Meeting is held twice a year, andexchanged information is pertaining to improvement of theenvironment/safety, taking up as the object those themes of
construction of environmental management system, promotion ofsmall group activities, grasping of the actual status ofenvironmental loads, reduction of PRTR law specified
substances, correspondence to green procurement, trend oflegal restrictions, etc.
In addition, Information Exchange Meeting has been pushing
forward acquisition of ISO 14001 certification for the purpose ofeffectively operating environmental management system. At
present 6 domestic affiliates (13 workplaces) acquired thecertification, and 3 overseas affiliates also acquired it.

Affiliates Participating inInformation Exchange Meeting●JSP Corporation●Japan U-PiCA Co., Ltd.
●Fudow Co., Ltd.
Japan Hydrazine Co., Inc.
Japan Pionics Co., Ltd.
●A.G. International Chemical Co., Ltd.
●Mizushima Aroma Co., Ltd.
Eiwa Chemical Industrial Co., Ltd.
●Toyo Kagaku Co., Ltd.
Electrotechno Co., Ltd.
Japan Circuit Industrial Co., Ltd.

Reduction of Environmental Loads
Concerning grasping actual status of the environmental loads,
each affiliate has been implementing the measurement inconformity with the method Mitsubishi Gas Chemical has
adopted. Main items are Raw materials, Water, Consumption ofenergy, Emission volume of carbon dioxide (CO 2), Disposedvolume of wastes, etc., and we not only intend to further expand
the scope of measurement hereafter, but also we will initiate totake measures for the reduction of environmental loads.
As far as wastes are concerned, we will make the cooperation
relationship between our group companies much closer throughrecycling among our group companies, and effective use ofrefuse derived fuel (RDF) facilities and waste oil combustion
facilities, and will make efforts to reduce them.
The charts below show the performance by total 11 affiliates
pertaining to the environmental loads in comparison with ourcompany.
Raw Material Consumption/
Products Manufacturing●ISO 14001 Certification Acquired
Company

Disposed Volume of Wastes

tons/yr
120,000
100,000
80,00060,00040,00020,0001,443

0Energy Consumption/
CO2 Emissions

Water Consumption/
Drainage Volume

2,000

2,000

40,000

1,500

1,500

30,000

1,000

1,000

20,000500

500

10,00000
Raw material
consumption

Products
manufacturing

k tons/yr

527

Plant emission
Final landfill
Waste generated
volumevolumevolumeMember companies (11) Mitsubishi Gas Chemical

0
Energyconsumption

CO2 Emissions

k kr/yr (crude oilconversion)

k tons/yr

Water
consumption

Gross Drainage
Volumek m3/yr

Handling of PRTR Law Specified Substances
As far as the object substances of PRTR law which went into effect in 2001 are concerned, all affiliates have reported
the emission and transfer volumes based on the law, and they have taken the initiative in reducing those substances
voluntarily.

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PRTR (Pollutant Release and Transfer Register) Law Law Concerning Reporting, etc. of Releases to the Environment of Specific Chemical
Substances and Promoting Improvements in Their Management. A system that enterprisers disclose such information to the society
through administrative organs as emission volumes of chemical substances and transfer volumes of wastes.

Affiliated Companies at Information Exchange Meeting
Affiliated Companies of Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Group consist of largely 2 groups of manufacture/sale of chemicals
and manufacture/sale of synthetic resins. Companies in each group are engaged in the development ofenvironmental products and environmental technologies in their respective fields. Biodegradable plastics andrecycled products using recovered polystyrene at JSP Corporation, recycling technology of polyester (PET) resins at
Japan U-PiCA Co., Ltd., environmental load reduction unit in the field of semiconductor at Japan Pionics Co., Ltd.,etc. have acquired appreciation on the market. In manufacturing products all affiliates have acquired ISO 9000s
certification, and they have started activities for zero emission of wastes and green procurement which become now
social requirements.

JSP Corporation

Japan U-PiCA Co., Ltd.

Manufacture & sale of foamed Plastics

Manufacture & sale of unsaturated polyester Manufacture & sale of performance resins

Shinnisseki Bldg 4-2, Marunouchi 3-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Iino Bldg. 2-1-1, Uchisaiwai-cho, Chiyoda-ku,
Tokyo 100-0011 JAPAN TEL +81-3-3503-3981
Tokyo 100-0005 JAPAN TEL +81-3-6212-6300
http://www.u-pica.co.jp/index2.html
http://www.co-jsp.co.jp/jspi/jsp/index.html

Japan Hydrazine Co., Inc.

Japan Pionics Co., Ltd.

Manufacture & sale of hydrazine derivatives and Manufacture & sale of gas purifiers &surface heater
electronic devices
Iino Bldg. 1-1,Uchisaiwai-cho 2-chome, Chiyoda-ku,
Tokyo 100-0011 JAPAN TEL +81-3-3501-5656
http://www.hydrazine.co.jp/eng/index.html

Mizushima Aroma Co., Ltd.

Fudow Co., Ltd.
No.7th Daigo Bldg. 20-5, Nishikamada 7-chome,
Ota-ku, Tokyo 144-0051 JAPANTEL +81-3-3737-0611
http://www.fudow.co.jp/e-index.html

Eiwa Chemical Industrial Co., Ltd.
Manufacture & sale of blowing agents

Tokyo Sakurada Bldg.1-1-3, Nishishinbashi,
Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0003 JAPANTEL +81-3-3501-5656

Daido Seimei Co. Kyoto Bldg. 595-3 SanjoSagaru Karasuma-dori, Manjuya-cho, Nakagyo-ku,
Kyoto 604-8161 JAPAN TEL +81-75-256-5131
http://www.japan-pionics.co.jp/semicon/eng/index.html http://member.nifty.ne.jp/eiwa/page016.html

Manufacture & sale of Purified Terephthalic Acid
(PTA)

A.G. International Chemical Co., Toyo Kagaku Co., Ltd.
Inc.
Engineering plastics molding/resin

2-3-1,Mizushimanakadori, Kurashiki-shi,
Okayama 712-8072 JAPAN TEL +81-86-446-4570

Manufacture & sale of Purified Isophthalic
Acid (IPA)

Electrotechno Co., Ltd.
Manufacture of copper clad laminates forprinted circuit board
9-41 Aza-Sugiyama, Oaza-Yone, Nishigo-mura,Nishishirakawa-gun, Fukushima 961-8031 JAPANTEL +81-248-25-5000

molding & processing

51-497, Aza-Dodo, Oaza-Morowa, Togo-cho,Tokyo Sakurada Bldg. 1-3, Nishishinbashi 1-chome, Aichi-gun, Aichi 470-0151 JAPANTEL +81-561-39-0531
Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0003 JAPANTEL +81-3-3503-4811
http://www.toyo-kagaku.co.jp/020610.files/frame.htm
http://www.agic.co.jp/e_agic/index.html

Japan Circuit Industrial Co., Ltd.
Manufacture & sale of printed circuit boad
2-1236, Kamiike-cho, Toyota-shi,
Aichi 471-0804 JAPAN TEL +81-565-88-3718

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Communication on the Environment
Our company is providing information on its efforts for the environmental and safety activities to the public in various
ways such as publication of Environmental Report, response to questionnaire survey on the environment, participation
in JRCC’s Community Dialogue Meetings, etc.

Publication of Environmental Report
We have published our Environmental Report since
fiscal 2001, which we distribute to local people throughour workplaces, not to mention to government offices
and concerned enterprises. At the 2003 edition we
newly publicized “Environmental Accounting” in linewith the Guideline of the Ministry of the Environment.
In addition, to enable more people to understand ourefforts for the environmental and safety activities, we
disclose relevant information on our website.
From fiscal 2004 onward, we plan to publicize
Environmental Report in English on our website.
Further, our Niigata Plant is scheduled to issue its own
Environmental Report at the site before long. In
addition, other plants are also considering to publish
such local Environmental Report.

Participation in JRCC’s Community Dialogue
Meetings
As a member company of Japan Responsible CareCouncil (JRCC), we have positively participated inCommunity Dialogue Meetings held in each district. In
2003 our Mizushima Plant as manager company inOkayama district, and Kashima Plant and Yokkaichi
Plant respectively at the regional dialogue meeting in
Kashima district and Yokkaichi district, madepresentation of examples on the initiative taken in the
Responsible Care (RC) activities and intended to havecommunication with people in the community such as
related administrative authorities, neighboring
enterprises, local autonomies, etc.
Kashima district February 14: Kashima Plant
re. Activities for product stewardship
Okayama district February 27: Mizushima Plant
RC activities as a whole and an introduction of environment-considering
products
Yokkaichi district November 20: Yokkaichi Plant
Keynote announcement on the emission volumes of PRTR substances,
etc. of totaling 8 chemical companies

The 3rd JRCC’s Okayama
District Community Dialogue
Meeting

Environmental Report (2001 edition, 2002 edition)
http://www.mgc.co.jp/environment/res/

Response to Questionnaire Survey on theEnvironment
Our company publicizes its efforts for theenvironmental and safety through surveys done by
Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc., Eco Fund, environmental
rating organizations, etc.

Environment-related Exhibitions
We participate in exhibitions held by variousorganizations and exhibit environment-considered
products thereat.
Flower & Garden Show

Operation system
Environmental education
80
Warming
Distribution
MGC’s Environmental
measuresManagement Degrees(year 2003)(Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc.)

60
Vision40
20
0Contamination
risks

Product
measures

NEW Environmental Exhibition
MGC

Resources
circulation

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Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc.
SOMPO JAPAN INSURANCE INC.
UFJ Synthetic Laboratory
Nikko Eco FundGood banker, etc.

Industry average

Survey on Environmental
Management Degrees ofEnterprises
Woods of Beech
Green Wings

March, 2003
May, 2003

May, 2003

Flower & Garden Show (TOKYO BIG SIGHT)
Eco Greentech (TOKYO BIG SIGHT)“MGC Tree-planting System on Roof”“Memory Green Crystal”, etc.
“2003 NEW Environmental Exhibition” (TOKYO BIG SIGHT)
Fluorine Wastewater Treatment Agent “DiaFresh F-SON”

We introduced Environmental Management System into our company, and our all plants have acquired ISO14001
certification. Based upon the environmental policy determined at each plant, we strive positively to enhancecommunication with residents in local communities through landscaping activities in the facilities surroundingarea, acceptance of facilities visits, opening of the welfare facilities, participation in local events, and so forth.

Landscaping Activities in the Plant Surrounding Area
Periodical cleaning activities at roads and river banks
in the surrounding area of each workplace have been
made by our employees. We also participated in traffic
control at main intersections in order to contribute to
the traffic safety in the community.

Opening of the Welfare Facilities, Participationin Local Events
We periodically open grounds, gymnasiums, etc. of
our workplaces to high school students and children
soccer clubs. Niigata Plant provides to the public its
premises as a place of recreation for cherry blossomviewing when the cherry blossom is in full bloom.
Especially at the local festivals, we strive to cultivate
mutual friendship with the people in the local
communities through acceptance of “Mikoshi(portable shrines)” and “Dashi (float)”, and/or
attending to guests.

Cleaning at roads
surrounding our plant

Row of cherry trees at
Niigata Plant

Periodical cleaning, etc. implementing workplaces:
Tokyo Plant Niigata Plant
Mizushima Plant Yokkaichi Plant
Osaka Plant Yamakita Plant Kashima Plant
Tokyo Research Laboratory
Niigata Research Laboratory Hiratsuka Research Laboratory

Acceptance of Workplace Visits
We at many workplaces have organized open
observation visits making as the object local residents
as well as children and students from elementary
schools to colleges. At Tokyo Plant we held anenvironmental business observation visit for themembers of town assemblies in the neighborhood of
the plant. Also at Yokkaichi Plant it was impressive to
see high school students in the industry course actuallyenter the instrument room, write earnestly with a pen to
the explanation of a person in charge, and raisequestions positively.

Mizushima
port festival

Workplaces opening the welfare facilities, participating in local events
Tokyo Plant
Niigata Plant
Mizushima Plant
Yokkaichi Plant
Yamakita Plant Kashima Plant
Corporate Research Laboratory
Niigata Research Laboratory

Donation of a Tank Freight Car to a Freight
Railroad Museum

Plant visit by high school
students (at Yokkaichi Plant)
Workplaces accepting observation visitsTokyo Plant
Niigata Plant
Yokkaichi Plant
Yamakita Plant
Corporate Research Laboratory Niigata Research Laboratory
Hiratsuka Research Laboratory

Donation of Peracetic Acid for the SARS
Measures in China
In June, 2003 for supporting the measures taken for
Serious Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), we
donated approximately 20 tons of disinfectant
peracetic acid (trade name: Diapower) to the Peoples
Republic of China. The peracetic acid was delivered to
Chongqing City and Ordos City (Inner Mongolia
Autonomous Region), diluted to the concentration of
0.1 - 0.5%, and used for sterilization and eliminating
virus.

Yokkaichi Plant donated to “Freight Railroad Museum”(located in the premises of Tanwo River Station of
Sanki Railroad in Mie Prefecture) its hydrogen
peroxide exclusive tank freight car as the firsthydrogen peroxide exclusive car in Japan. The tankfreight car was the one abandoned for converting toISO container from privately owned railroad freight car.
This Freight Railroad Museum is first-in-Japan
museum exclusive for freight transportation byrailroad, and was established jointly by Sanki Railroad(Mie Prefecture) and a volunteer organization in
September, 2003. Currently, freight transportation byrailroad tends to be specialized in containers, and thismuseum was established aiming at providing a forum
for exchange of culture, opinion, friendship, etc. in andout of the district through collecting and exhibiting asa modernized inheritance of freight transportation such
wooden freight cars, etc. as are destined to beabandoned with finishing their role. We agreed withsuch intent and donated the tank car.

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Environmental Load Data at Main Plants
Tokyo Plant
Location: 1-1, Niijyuku 6-chome, Katushika-ku, Tokyo 125-8601
Land Area:120,000g
1SO14001:1200-1998-AE-KOB-RVA Rev.1（10/23/1998）
Input Data

Output Data

Energy

kGJ

501

Air

CO2

k tonsIndustrial water

kk

294

SOx

tons

2

Underground water

kk

0

NOx

tons

10

City water

kk

50

Drainagekk

304

Office papers

tons

8

COD

tons

2

Water area

Waste

(tons)

PRTR substances (tons)

Plant discharge

1,258

Dimethyl amide

0.370

8.700

Hydrazine

0.032

0.000

Outside incineration

561

Final landfill

0

Emission21

Hydrogen fluoride &its water soluble salt

0.015

Transfer

Main Products
BT resin materials for printed circuit boards
Epoxy materials for printed circuit boards
Info-advanced materials (Magnetooptic elements,
Liquid crystal materials)
Oxygen absorbers (AGELESS, AnaeroPack)
Water treatment agents/DEOPOWER/
Environmental agents

0.000

Niigata Plant
Location: 3500, Matsuhama-cho, Niigata City, Niigata Pref. 950-3121
Land area: 1,200,000 g
ISO14001: EMSC-1162 (6/5/1998)
Input Data

Output Data

Energy

kGJ

7,196

Air

CO2

k tonsIndustrial water

kk

2,504

SOx

tons

3

Underground water

kk

184

NOx

tons

384

River water

kk

7,435

Drainage

kk

6,912

Office papers

tons

9

COD

tons

36

Water area

450

Waste

(tons)

PRTR substances (tons)

Emission

Plant discharge

1,919

Ethylene oxide

11.0000.000

Outside incineration 1,127

Methyl methacrylate

1.200

30.000

Final landfill

Methylene chloride

0.360

3.600

128

Transfer

Main Products
Methanol/Ammonia/Formalin
Meta-xylene diamine
Methyl methacrylate
Polyamide resin (Nylon MXD6)
Bio-related products (Ubidecarenone)

Mizushima Plant
Location: 3-10, Mizushima Kaigandori, Kurashiki City, Okayama Pref. 712-8525
Land Area:540,000 g
ISO14001: JCQA-E-0145 (5/29/2000)
Input Data

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Output Data

Energy

kGJ

7,674

Air

Industrial waterkk

11,787

SOx

tons

381

Underground water

kk

0

NOx

tons

276

City water

kk

226

Drainagekk

10,692

Office papers

tons

7

COD

tons

124

Water area

CO2

k tons251

Waste(tons)

PRTR substances (tons)

EmissionTransfer

Plant discharge

1,884

Xylene64.624

20.632

Outside incineration 1,353

Hydrogen fluoride &its water soluble salt

16.148

0.027

Final landfill

Manganese & its compound

10.086

4.271

224

Main Products
Xylenes/Aromatic aldehyde
Neopentyl glycol
Phthalic anhydride
Purified iso(tere)phthalic acid
Tri(pyro)mellitic dianhydrideObject Period of Environmental Load Data: 4/1/2002 - 3/31/2003(This Report is reserved at each of our workplaces)

Yokkaichi Plant
Location: 4-16, Hinagahigashi 2-chome, Yokkaichi City, Mie Pref. 510-0886
Land Area:185,000 g
ISO14001: JQA-EM0502 (8/13/1999)
Input Data

Output Data

Energy

kGJ

1,914

Air

CO2

k tonsIndustrial water

kk

8,554

SOx

tons

31

Underground water

kk

0

NOx

tons

46

City waterkk

42

Drainagekk

954

Office papers

tons

5

COD

tons

46

Water area

180

Waste

(tons)

PRTR substances (tons)

EmissionTransfer

Plant discharge

8,544

Toluene67.2004.320

Outside incineration

231

Methyl ethyl ketone

46.0000.000

Final landfill

41

Hydrazine

2.088

0.000

Main Products
Hydrogen peroxide/Hydrogen peroxide forelectronic materials
Hydrazine hydrate
Sodium percarbonate
ELM Clean (Release agent for liquid crystal)
Polyacetal resin (Iupital)

Yamakita Plant
Location: 950 Kishi, Yamakita-machi, Ashigarakami-gun, Kanagawa Pref. 258-0112
Land Area:63,000 g
ISO14001: JQA-EM0859 (5/12/2000)
Input Data

Output Data

EnergykGJ

578

Industrial waterkk

0

Underground water

kk

200

Dam discharged water

kk

7,200

Office papers

ton

1

Air

Water area

CO2

k tons

7

SOx

tons

7

NOx

tons

4

Drainage

kk

7,377

COD

tons

10

Waste

(tons)

PRTR substances (tons)

EmissionTransfer

Plant discharge

419

2-aminoethanol

0.000

0.016

Outside incineration

86

Ethylene glycol

0.000

0.021

Final landfill

6

Cyclohexylamine

0.000

0.024

Main ProductsSuper-Pure hydrogen peroxide
Persulfates(Ammonium, Soda, Potassium, etc.)
Chemical polishing fluids/Peracetic acidKashima Plant
Location: 35 Higashi Wada, Kamisu-machi, Kashima-gun, Ibaraki Pref. 314-0102
Land Area:332,000 g
ISO14001: JQA-EM0345 (2/26/1999)
Input Data

Output Data

EnergykGJ

2,610

Industrial water

kk

615

Underground waterkk

0

Pure water

kk

882

Office papers

ton

1

Waste

Water area

CO2

k tons

46

SOx

tons

0

NOx

tons

9

Drainage

kk

1,564

COD

tons

91

PRTR substances (tons)

EmissionTransfer

Plant discharge

620

Dichloromethane

179.000

5.015

Outside incineration

10

Chlorodifluoromethane

1.100

0.000

Final landfill(tons)

Air

7

Main Products
Polycarbonate resin (Iupilon)
Hydrogen peroxide29●Essential factors of this report
Object Organization：Domestic workplaces listed in Company Profile
Object Scope：Reports focusing on environmental and safety
activities and environmental performance in
Responsible Care activities by MGC
Object Period：fiscal 2003 (1/1/2003 - 12/31/2003)
But environmental performance data are based on 4/1/2002 3/31/2003.

Date of Issue：March, 2004
Next Date of Issue：March, 2005
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Mitsubishi Bldg 5-2 Marunouchi 2-chome, Chiyoda-ku,
Tokyo 100-8324
TEL03-3283-4829

FAX03-3283-4840

http://www.mgc.co.jp/environment/res
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