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Preventing Global Warming
Helping to prevent global warming is one of the most important social responsibilities of the manufacturer today. The Konica Minolta Group is committed to helping prevent global warming from an overall product lifecycle perspective.
Our measures for reducing CO2 emissions cover not only emissions from our business sites during product manufacture, but also during product distribution and use at the customer’s site.
Beginning in fiscal 2006, Konica Minolta is targeting a 20% reduction in CO2 emissions by fiscal 2010 (as compared to the 2000 level) throughout the product lifecycle, from production and distribution to use. To ensure that we achieve this goal, reduction targets are set, respectively, for the following three parameters: CO2 emissions from sites in Japan, from manufacturing sites outside Japan, and during product use.
Global Promotion of Green Procurement
To ensure that products are environmentally sound, it is necessary to check the environmental impact of the raw materials and parts that go into those products. This is why the Konica Minolta Group promotes its Green Procurement policy globally. To our raw materials and parts procurement assessment criteria (quality, cost and delivery) we have added environmental factors to ensure emphasis on materials and parts with less environmental impact. We have also augmented our Green Procurement criteria with substance assessment, whereby we evaluate substances contained in raw materials and parts to be procured, both inside and outside Japan. We also use corporate assessment surveys to evaluate our suppliers in terms of their environmental management systems. These survey data are saved in an information database and shared throughout the Group.
Product Distribution
The Konica Minolta Group is promoting a modal shift away from long-distance trucking to transport by rail and sea. In Japan we have been using rail or sea for long- and mid-distance transportation of our products, such as photographic paper and films.
Furthermore, we have been working to improve our logistical efficiency through distribution center integration, joint transportation between distribution centers, and use of the return journey from product delivery to collect used copiers and photographic developer equipment.
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