Initiatives to Reduce our Environmental Burden

CO₂ Emission Reduction Targets

In December 2021, Amano formulated CO₂ emission reduction targets to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
To prevent global warming, we will continue efforts to reduce CO₂ emissions.

CO₂ emission reduction targets: a 46% reduction in FY2030 compared with levels in FY2013.

＊ Note: These targets concern Scope 1 and 2 corporate emissions.

Energy Saving Initiatives

In order to reduce CO₂ emissions, Amano is promoting energy-saving activities at each business site. As reducing electricity and gasoline consumption is the most effective way to reduce energy consumption, to achieve this, each business site is making continuous efforts by sharing and applying ideas.
Energy reduction measures that are common among the sites are as follows:

Appropriate air-conditioner temperature settings (implementation of Cool Biz and Warm Biz)
LED lighting and power saving
Reducing water consumption (Proper management of turning faucets on and off)
Turning off unnecessary computers
Implementation energy saving measures and modification facility equipment
Change to energy-saving multifunctional copiers upon renewal intervals
Give environmental lectures (garbage sorting, water draining, etc.) to cleaning contractors
Promoting company-wide energy saving campaigns
Reducing standby power consumption during long vacations

Renewal of energy-saving injection molding machines (Sagamihara Factory)

Renewal of substation facilities (Hosoe Factory)

Renewal of laser beam machines (Hosoe Factory)

Water Reduction Target

Since water is an indispensable resource in manufacturing activities, we will set new goals to reduce environmental impact, avoid risks, and achieve sustainable water use, in order to use limited water resources efficiently and appropriately.

Water reduction target : Reduce water usage by 1% compared to the previous year.

＊ Note: Targets are Head Office, Sagamihara Factory, and Hosoe Factory sites.

Criteria for Water

At the Hosoe Factory, we regularly measure the water quality of wastewater and manage it so that it does not discharge outside the factory, and there are no items that do not meet the current emission standards.

Item		Drainage reference value (mg/l)	Voluntary reference value (mg/l)	FY2022
Item		Drainage reference value (mg/l)	Voluntary reference value (mg/l)	Wastewater outlet 1(mg/l)	Wastewater outlet 2(mg/l)	Wastewater outlet 3(mg/l)
Standard items	pH	5.8 to 8.6	6.1 to 8.2	6.7 to 7.1	7.0 to 7.8	6.9 to 7.6
	BOD (maximum value)	30	27 (daily average 20)	18	Less than 2.0	24.0
	COD (maximum value)	30	27 (daily average 20)	12	Less than 9.3	26
	SS (maximum value)	40	36 (daily average 30)	11	2.3	7.8
	n-Hexane extractants (mineral oil content)	5.0	4.5	Less than 1.0	Less than 1.0	ー (＊)
	Phenols	1	0.9	Less than 0.5	Less than 0.5	Less than 0.5
	Copper	1	0.9	Less than 0.1	Less than 0.1	Less than 0.1
	Zinc	2	1.8	Less than 0.20	Less than 0.2	ー (＊)
	Total iron	10	9	Less than 0.30	Less than 0.3	ー (＊)
	Total chromium	2	1.8	Less than 0.05	Less than 0.05	Less than 0.05
	Total nitrogen	120	108	13	61	89
	Total phosphorus	16	14.4	2.4	Less than 0.80	7.2
	Number of coliform bacteria	3,000	2,700	1,400	44	48
Hazardous substances	Cadmium	0.002	0.0018	Less than 0.0002	Less than 0.0002	Less than 0.0002
	Cyanogen	1	0.9	Less than 0.1	Less than 0.1	Less than 0.1
	Organic phosphorus	0.1	0.09	Less than 0.01	Less than 0.01	Less than 0.01
	Lead and its compounds	0.1	0.09	Less than 0.01	Less than 0.01	Less than 0.01
	Fluorine compounds	8	7.2	Less than 0.80	Less than 0.80	Less than 0.80
	Arsenic and its compounds	0.001	0.0009	0.0005	Less than 0.0003	0.0004
	Trichloroethylene	0.3	0.27	Less than 0.005	Less than 0.005	Less than 0.005
	Tetrachloroethylene	0.1	0.09	Less than 0.005	Less than 0.005	Less than 0.005
	Dichloromethane	0.2	0.18	Less than 0.02	Less than 0.02	Less than 0.02

(＊)Drainage outlet 3 is excluded from measurement since it is used for septic tank drainage.

Reducing the Consumption of Copy Paper

In an effort to reduce the amount of paper used, the three sites (Head Office, Sagamihara Factory, and Hosoe Factory) are continuing their efforts to “not increase paper usage over the previous fiscal year”, such as by reducing paper distribution by promoting paperless meetings, double-sided printing, and using projectors. In addition, we are upgrading our conventional printers and copiers to multifunction machines, and striving to reduce paper by digitizing documents.
In FY2022, we were able to reduce paper usage by 8.6% compared to the previous year. We are using laptops to reduce the use of paper for meeting materials and improve the digitization of inspection table data, etc.

Battery Recycling

Since December 2012, Amano has been promoting initiativesthat contribute to the creation of a recyclingoriented society by recycling all the batteries ext racted f rom cleaning products.
In FY2022, 94.8 tons (approximately 3,388 batteries)were recycled.