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Fujikura Gakuen
Management
Environmental Relations
Global Environment Charter
Environmental Activity Promotion System
Environmental Management Action Guidelines
Environment Audit
Environmental Performance
State of ISO14001
Eco Products
Buy 'Green' & Procure 'Green'
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CSR

Green Procurement

Green Procurement

As a premise to deliver products of a high environmental quality to our customers, we must use materials and parts that are also of a high environmental quality. Fujikura is conducting the following activities with meticulous attention so as not to procure materials that contain substances of concern (SOC).

Survey on the Use of SOCs

The division in charge of procurement distributes a copy of Fujikura's guidelines on the use of SOCs to all its major suppliers, asks that they comply with the guidelines, and undertakes a survey on their use of substances of concern in products to be purchased by Fujikura. For products in which SOCs are used, their content percentage is identified and managed at the ppm unit level.

Database on SOCs

We have built a SOC database, in which data of about 4,500 materials and parts that we have purchased are registered. Via the intranet, the in-house divisions can access this database whenever they want to search and obtain information on the use of SOCs in the purchased materials and parts.

Requesting Suppliers to Cooperate in Environmental Management

We have asked our major suppliers to support us in environmental management by implementing the following measures:

  1. Discontinue or reduce the use of SOCs in products to be delivered to Fujikura (hereinafter, "Delivered Products")
  2. Pay environmental consideration in manufacturing the Delivered Products
  3. Provide information on hazards related to the Delivered Products and laws and regulations applied to them, including the submission of material safety data sheets (MSDS)
  4. Promote downsizing and weight reduction and select materials with less of an environmental impact for use in the Delivered Products
  5. Pay consideration to the recyclability of the Delivered Products, including the selection of easily recyclable materials and structures that are easily classified or disassembled
  6. Actively use recycled resources in the Delivered Products
  7. Pay consideration to the environmental impact in the transportation of the Delivered Products

In-House Analysis and Management of Purchased Goods

To provide our customers with safe products, we analyze and manage the use of substances of concern in the purchased products, using our ISO 17025-certified top-level analysis technology.

Inorganic analyses Atomic absorption, ICP, XRF, EPMA, XRD, and others
Organic analyses GC/MS, various spectroscopic measurement devices for UV absorption spectroscopy, etc., IC, and others

Environment and Analysis Center Accredited as a Laboratory Conforming to ISO/IEC 17025

The Environment and Analysis Center was accredited as a laboratory conforming to ISO/IEC 17025 on October 1, 2004 in recognition of the accuracy and reproducibility of its analysis values in the rubbers and plastics field. Under the ISO/IEC 17025-based laboratory accreditation system, accreditation bodies examine testing and calibration laboratories to check if they have the sufficient capacity to conduct tests in a specific field in compliance with the standards.
Accreditation by these bodies gives the following advantages:

  1. If a testing laboratory is accredited as conforming to the standards, it will be internationally recognized as having reliable technical competence and its data will be internationally accepted as effective.
  2. Achievement of one-stop testing (accepted worldwide): If the data provided by an accredited testing laboratory is used in an international transaction, the purchaser will not have to redo the testing after the purchase.
  3. In addition, if a company has its own accredited testing laboratory, it can increase the reliability of its own data for use in the company's PL measures and responses to environmental problems.

Survey on Environmental Management Efforts of Suppliers and Requests for Improvement

We conducted a survey on the environmental management efforts of our suppliers focusing on the following items:

  1. Establishment and operation of environmental management systems (ISO 14001-compliant systems and others)
  2. System to respond to emergencies that would exert a serious impact on the environment
  3. Occurrence/non-occurrence of environmental accidents for the past three years
  4. Compliance with environmental laws and regulations
    (The Waste Management and Public Cleansing Law, the Water Pollution Control Law, the Sewage Law, the Air Pollution Control Law, the Noise Regulation Law, and the Vibration Regulation Law)

Based on the results of the survey, we asked suppliers who were not implementing sufficient environmental measures to make related improvements.

Green Purchasing

Fujikura posts a list of stationery and office equipment to be purchased by the Company on its intranet, where environmentally friendly models are indicated with the Eco Mark and Green Project Mark. Employees are encouraged to choose environmentally friendly products from the list when they want to purchase goods in order to promote green purchasing across the Company.