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The Kawasaki Plant is located in Yako in southeastern Kawasaki City, Kanagawa
Prefecture. If you take the Keihin Kyuko Daishi Line and get off at Kojimashinden
Station, the last stop on the line, you will also notice the very conspicuous ZEON
logo in addition to ZEON's R&D Building No. 10, the highest-standing building inYako. The Kawasaki Plant is situated next-door to the R&D center.
While the name Yako (literally “night light”) seems to suggest the bright lights andtorches of the Keihin Industrial Zone, this interpretation is in fact incorrect. The true

Aerial view of the Kawasaki Plant

origin of the word relates to the construction of the Kawasaki Daishi temple, andcomes from a phrase meaning “ocean emitting a strange light at night.” Kawasaki Daishi is said to have originated ata time when, long ago, a fisherman, heeding the instruction of a Buddhist monk who appeared in his dream, cast hisnet where light was shining and pulled out a small statue of Kobo-Daishi, the founder of the Shingon school ofBuddhism. The Kawasaki Plant was built here in 1959 and, for over half a century since, has built mutual
relationships of trust with the local residents. For example, its neighborhood clean-ups, summer festivals, anddiscussions with local residents at neighborhood association meetings have helped the Kawasaki Plant to quietly
blend in and function as an intimate and integral part of the local community.

The Kawasaki Plant makes various efforts to increase interaction between itself and local residents as part of its
stated mission to be an open and transparent manufacturing operation. The first step in achieving that goal is forevery employee at the plant to maintain a clean and proper public image. For that purpose, the Kawasaki Plant
Group Leader Committee instructs employees on practicing basic social manners, such as not reading one's cell
phone while walking, not jaywalking, and not smoking while walking down the street.

1. Reducing toxic chemical emissions
The Kawasaki Plant is working to reduce emissions of butadiene and acrylonitrile, the main materials in our products,
by installing recovery equipment. Stabilizing operations and improving the operational rate of recovery systems has
allowed us to increase the amount of acrylonitrile we process. As a result, atmospheric emissions of butadiene andacrylonitrile in fiscal 2012 were 2.7 tons and 13 tons, respectively. We will continue to improve our technologies sothat someday we can achieve zero emissions.

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Substances subject to PRTR law

2. Reducing industrial waste
We have maintained efforts throughout the plant to reduce the volume of plant-generated industrial waste byseparating it for collection and reusing or recycling it (including heat recovery). The volume of waste sent to landfills
in fiscal 2013 was 0.4 tons, again less than 1 ton as in the previous year, as a result of our diligence in reducing
waste and introducing facilities to improve and stabilize waste treatment. In fiscal 2013, we will continue to reduce
industrial waste through separation and recycling and by reducing waste.

Amount of Waste to Landfill

3. Reducing air and water pollution
By carefully managing the waste we put in our incinerator we are making steady progress in the reduction of nitrogenoxides (NOx), carbon monoxide (CO), soot, and other atmospheric emissions from our operations.
We are also decreasing our environmental impact on water quality by reducing nitrogenous compounds in waste
liquid and improving removal rates by ensuring that our treatment facilities are operating efficiently. We aredetermined to improve our technologies to bring about less total nitrogen discharge and better removal rates.

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CO2 emissions

SOx and NOx emissions

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4. Saving resources and energy
Continuing from the previous year, in fiscal 2012 we worked to improve technologies to make our Co-generation*systems work more efficiently. Responding to power restrictions in Japan, we also reduced peak power consumption
by adjusting the production timing for products requiring higher energy use and revising our annual production. To
enforce energy conservation measures on a daily basis, we sent employees to patrol our facilities and make surethermostats were kept at 28℃ and lights not in use were turned off, among other inspections. Everyone at thefactory was especially vigilant during the more energy-intense summer months.
* Co-generation
A new type of energy supply system that uses waste heat from internal combustion engines, e xternal combustion engine, and other sources to extract power, heat, andrefrigeration while improving overall energy efficiency.

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5. Environmental Data
Kawasaki Plant

FY2008FY2009FY2010FY2011FY2012

21,902

21,75826,61323,054

22,841

3.1

2.3

4.8

2.6

2.7

9,576

9,556

12,034

10,67010,872

14

12

15

12

13

44,085

44,101

51,781

46,18644,709

27

21

30

26

26

34,50030,163

44,13247,71850,878

4,641

3,136

5,315

5,383

5,037

118

13

0.4

0.4

0.9

CO2 emissions (tons)

31,03033,90036,47827,60927,674

SOx emissions (tons)

1.0

0.6

0.7

0.1

0.1

1718

10

7.6

8.0

2,618

2,719

2,575

2,963

3,313

Butadiene consumption (tons)
Toxic substances

Butadiene emissions (tons)
Acrylonitrile consumption (tons)
Acrylonitrile emissions (tons)

Substances
subject to PRTR
law

Industrial waste

Atmosphericemissions

Consumption (tons)
Amount emitted (tons)
Amount generated (before volume reduction)(tons)
Amount generated (after volume reduction)(tons)
Amount sent to landfill (tons)

NOx emissions (tons)
Water resources (Industrial water + Ground water +3Waterworks) consumption (1,000 m )3
Total waste water discharge (1,000 m )Waste water

Energy

1,598

1,602

1,836

1,793

1,904

COD emissions (tons)

37

35

41

40

42

Total phosphorus discharge (tons)

0.8

0.2

0.1

0.2

0.2

Total nitrogen discharge (tons)

60

74

93

89

115

15,82915,167

16,23916,22016,539

97%

92%

78%

90%

91%

73,58774,803

94,34081,79082,757

Total consumption (crude oil equivalent, kL)
Unit consumption index (1990 = 100)

Production of PDR equivalent (tons)In line with ZEON's Mid-Term Management Plan, SZ-20, including the Enterprise Blueprint for 2020: “ZEON creates
the future today through the power of chemistry,” the Kawasaki Plant strives to produce the world's highest-quality
products and supply a steady stream of those products to customers.
Quality as stated here includes cost, quantity, delivery period, and reliability. Consistently providing the highquality that our customers require is both the mission and raison d'être of the Kawasaki Plant, which takes
satisfaction in being harmoniously integrated in urban surroundings. We also believe that our employees' pride in
producing the best products in the world can be a driving force for further quality improvements.

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Toward Higher Quality and More Stable Production

In its over 50 years of operations, the Kawasaki Plant has supplied its customers withoil-resistant synthetic rubber, used in key automotive components, and synthetic latex,
used in coated papers, nonwoven fabrics, and rubber gloves. We see the stableproduction of high-quality products as an important requirement for delivering theseproducts to our customers for many decades to come.
At the Kawasaki Plant, we are embarking on measures to further advance theseefforts and work to enhance our capacity in processes that are critical to productToshiaki Saya, Kawasaki Plant Managerquality. In other words, we will reduce variations and aim for quality right in the middle of our standards. To this end,-5-FY2013 CSR Website CSR > Site Reports > Worksites > Kawasaki Plant

we will identify factors that lead to changes in attributes critical to quality and modify our production equipment andrevise manufacturing conditions to ensure that those factors are controlled. Through these efforts we will create
systems with which anyone following a standardized method can easily produce products with consistent quality. To
reduce quality variations between product lots, we will improve management of raw material quality and seek to build
flexible production systems where seasonal and other variations have no impact on quality.

Becoming a plant that is open and transparent
To stay open and transparent as a manufacturing operation, the Kawasaki Plant
invites schools, companies, business associations, and other groups to visit and takea tour. Recently, overseas visitors have come from China, Taiwan, and Thailand. By
providing information about our products and our environmental and safety activities
through these visits, we are doing our best to help the public better understand ouroperations.

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