Contents
Editorial Policy

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Business Bases Covered by this Report

Message

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Environmental Performance5

Targets and Performance of Environmental Management

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Environmental Management Activities

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Impact on the Environment by Furukawa Electric8

Zero-Emission Activities

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Prevention of Global Warming

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Chemical Substance Management

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Green Activities

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Recycling Activities

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Eco-Design Activities

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Environmental Risk Management

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Environmental Accounting

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Environmental Preservation Performance Indicators

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Social Performance

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Social Contribution Activities

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Human Resources, Safety, Health and Compliance

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Environmental Education and Enlightenment Activities

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Environmental Performance of the Works

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Environmental Performance of Affiliated Companies

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Progress in Environmental Management301

Editorial Policy
This brochure reports on the environmental preservation activities of the Furukawa ElectricGroup in fiscal 2004. In addition to the articles covered last year, this report has included
compliance activities. The environmental impact data for Furukawa Electric alone, and also
the data of its group companies are provided, so that the situation of the entire Group can begrasped. In addition, concrete examples of the activities of Furukawa Electric, and the scaleof the environmental impact of its non-production bases are provided, to make the activitiesof Furukawa Electric and its Group easier to read and understand.
In compiling this report, we have made reference to the Environmental Reporting
Guidelines (Fiscal Year 2003 version) published by the Ministry of the Environment, as well as
the Sustainability Reporting Guidelines 2000 published by Global Reporting Initiative.

Business Bases Covered by this Report
1. All the business bases of Furukawa ElectricChiba works Nikko works Hiratsuka works Mie works Osaka works
Kambara works Shinagawa works Yokohama R&D Laboratories
Kambara works was closed in March 2005, but it continued its manufacturing operation until
December 2004. In this report, we have included its activities up to that time.
2. Affiliated companies
Access Cable Company
Asahi Electric Works Co., Ltd.
Furukawa Logistics Corporation and 35 other companies(Company names are described on page 7)*1) In this report, when “Furukawa Electric” is mentioned, it refers to the business bases of the item, 1. above
When “the Furukawa Electric Group” is mentioned, it refers to the business bases of the items 1 and 2 above(excluding pages 27 to 29).
*2) The business bases covered by this report are different to the previous report, due to the changes in thegroup companies. Therefore, the environmental impact data for Furukawa-Sky Aluminum Corp. is retroactively
extracted from the data of Furukawa Electric, and is included in the data of affiliated companies, as data for
Furukawa-Sky Aluminum Corp. For other companies, data is provided both for newly covered business bases
for fiscal 2004, and also for the business bases that had been traditionally covered.

Period Covered
From April 1, 2004 to March 31, 2005
Information regarding past events and fiscal 2005 is partially included.

Enquiries and further information
Safety, Environment & Quality Promotion Department
The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
TEL +81-3-3286-3090
FAX +81-3-3286-3540

Reorganization and alliance of electric power division during this period
The electric power division of The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. integrated with VISCAS
Corporation and Furukawa Industrial Cable Co., Ltd. on January 1, 2005 to create the new
VISCAS Corporation and Furukawa Electric Industrial Cable Co., Ltd. Considering the large
environmental impact of these divisions that significantly affects annual data counting, wecompiled the data for these divisions to be included in the conventional works to which eachdivision belonged to, carrying out the data counting on a full year basis up to the end ofMarch.
Also Shinagawa works has changed its nam e to the Head Office VISCAS due to thereorganization, but it is using the name as of April 2004 in this report and is covered by
Furukawa Electric solely.

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