Environmental Initiatives

The Showa Environmental Declaration

Through all of the Showa corporate activities, where we strive for maintenance of health and protection of earth's environment is most important corporate activity.

  1. Within a life cycle that includes the development, manufacturing, sales, service, and disposal of products, at their various stages, Showa strives to recycle materials, to save resources and to save energy.
  2. Showa strives to minimize and handle appropriately all of the waste materials and pollutants generated during the various stages of the manufacturing process in an appropriate manner.

Environmental Organization

Role
  1. At the corporate level, all fundamental policies, strategies and key policies dealing with the environment undergo planning, careful consideration, and overall coordination
  2. Consultations are carried out with regard to solution strategies for problematic issues involving our environmental management system
  3. Internal audits with regard to our plants and offices are executed.


Environmental Initiatives

Due to our International Standard ISO14001 certification regarding environmental management, we are executing initiatives that parallel our Environmental Management System (EMS).

Environmental Management System (EMS)

Prevention of global warming
  1. CO2 emission volume (tot. vol.) generated through domestic production is being reduced at the rate of 1% annually.
  2. CO2 emission volume (tot. vol.) generated through domestic production between the years of 2008 and 2012 is to be reduced to an average rate of 20% of the volume generated in 1990.
  3. Through modal shifts, the CO2 emission volume generated during product transfers is being reduced at the rate of 1% annually.
Effective use of resources
  1. The volume of waste materials generated in 2010 is to be reduce to a level 10% below the volume generated in 2000.
  2. The ultimate disposal volume of waste materials (direct landfill) is to be reduced to 0.
  3. The recycling rate of waste materials is to achieve a rate of over 85%.
  4. Water resource utilzation fees are to be reduced annually at a rate of 2%.
Prevention of air pollution
  1. The outputs of toluene, xylene, ethylbenzene, and 1-bromopropane in 2010 are to be reduced to a rate of 30% of the rate for 2000.
  2. The prohibition of use of chloric volatile organic solvent
    (dichloromethane, trichloroethylene, tetrachloroethylene)
Strict observance of environmentally related legislation
  1. Management practices assuring that there are no compliance infractions with regard to environmental legislation and the rapid expedition of rapid emergency responses with regard to violations
Promotion of environmental preservation activities
  1. Maintenance and continuous improvement of the ISO14001 certification.