History of Furukawa Electric’s CSR Activities
1972 Companywide Rules for Pollution Prevention formulated

1974

 Environmental Control Department established2002

 Nikko Works certified under ISO 14001
 YokohamaR&DLaboratories(nowYokohamaWorks)certified
under ISO 14001

 Energy Conservation Team established Green Procurement Preparation Committee established1976

 Central Quality Control Committee established1989

 Team for Reduction in Use of Specified CFCs established Furukawa Electric Basic Environmental Policy revised

1992

 TeamforReductioninUseofSpecifiedCFCsrenamedTeamforReduction in Use of Ozone Layer Depletion Substances Medium-TermPlanforEnvironmentPreservationActivities
2005 formulated (2003-2005)

1993

 Basic Framework for Protecting the Global Environment
formulated (Furukawa Electric’s voluntary environmentalpreservation plan)

1994

 CommitteeforCompanywidePromotionofEnergyConservation
established1996

 Use of specified CFCs and trichloroethane discontinued

1997 TeamforPromotionofReductioninIndustrialWasteestablished1998

 Furukawa Electric Basic Environmental Policy formulated

2003

 Green Procurement Executive Committee established LiaisonMeetingofConsolidatedEnvironmentalManagement
established Seminar for managers of consolidated companies held2004

 Compliance Committee established Furukawa Electric Group Action Guidelines formulated CommitteefortheDevelopmentofEnvironmentallyFriendly
Products established FurukawaNewLeafestablishedasaspecialsubsidiaryoffering
employment to people with disabilities

 Chiba Works certified under ISO 14001
2005

 Companywide Regulations for Pollution Prevention revised
to create the Companywide Regulations for Environmental
Management
1999

2000

 Green Product Management Committee established Compliance Handbook published2006

 Medium-TermPlanforEnvironmentPreservationActivities
2009 formulated (2006-2009)

 EnvironmentControlDepartmentandSafetyControlDivisionmergedtocreatetheSafety,EnvironmentandHealthPromotion
Department

 Risk Management Committee established Central Safety and Health Committee established Compliance Handbook Version II published Ecology and Energy Laboratory established Reportpublishedundertherevisedtitle“EnvironmentalandSocial Report”

2007 CSR Division established Liaison Meeting with Affiliated Companies established Chief Social Responsibility Officer (CSRO) appointed

 First Environmental Report published Hiratsuka Works certified under ISO 14001

 Safety,EnvironmentandQualityPromotionDepartmentsplit
intotheSafetyandEnvironmentPromotionDepartmentand
the Quality Promotion Department

 Osaka Works certified under ISO 14001

 CSR and Risk Management Committee established Meeting of Environmental Personnel established2001

 Medium-TermPlanforEnvironmentPreservationActivities
2005 revised Safety, Environment and Health Promotion Department
renamed Safety, Environment and Quality Promotion
Department

 CentralCommitteeforEnvironmentalManagementestablished Mie Works certified under ISO 14001

 Operating Officer System introduced Medium-TermPlanforEnvironmentalPreservationActivities
2002 formulated (for 2001-2002)

 FurukawaElectricGroupActionGuidelinespartiallyrevised Report published under the revised title “CSR Report”

 Details of environmental accounting published

Information available via our website
Our website features details of progress with our environmental
initiatives and PDF versions of this report and other previously
published environmental reports. The relevant materials can beaccessed via the following page on the Furukawa Electric website.
http://www.furukawa.co.jp/english/

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