Furukawa Electric Group has established the Furukawa Electric Group Environmental Committee to deliberate, decide, promote, evaluate, and provide instructions for improvement on matters related to environmental conservation activities. The committee is chaired by the General Manager of the Risk Management Division and its members consist of the general managers of each business division and each corporate division, who are members of the management. The progress is reported quarterly to the Board of Directors.
Furthermore, in order to facilitate smooth decision-making on environmental conservation activities, we have established the Subcommittee of Environmental Managers, consisting of the environmental managers of each business division and corporate division, to discuss environmental issues cross-departmentally and specifically.
Environmental Management - Scope of the environmental management
The Group has been working on activities to achieve environmental targets while establishing an environmental management system at each site.
And, domestic and overseas production sites have acquired the international standard ISO14001 certification.
Our works, domestic group companies, and overseas group companies that have acquired ISO14001
We conduct environmental education for all Furukawa Electric Group employees, from new employees to executive officers, based on the belief that it is necessary to raise employees’ awareness and promote their understanding. We aim to achieve “Furukawa Electric Group Environmental Vision 2050” and “Environmental Targets 2030” by understanding the Environmental Basic Philosophy and enhancing activities in line with the Action Guidelines.
In FY2010, the Group started the Environmental Activity Awards with the aim of motivational improvement of employees and organizations working on environmental activities. The award was renamed to the ESG Commendations "Environmental Contribution Award" from FY2018, for the purpose of expanding the scope of the award which was focused on global warming prevention measures to all environmental activities, and aimed to raise awareness of the environment and to improve the level of environmental activities. In FY2023, 2 Outstanding Performance Awards, 2 Excellent Performance Awards, and 3 Honorable Mentions were selected. The Outstanding Performance Award was given to a case in which an energy-saving device was installed in air conditioning piping, thereby contributing to the reduction of air conditioning energy use and GHG emissions, and to a case in which material waste in the first part of the extrusion process was collected and reused as raw materials, thereby reducing the amount of new resource input and making a significant contribution to resource recycling.
The Group has presented “CSR Procurement Guidelines” and “Green Procurement Guidelines” to its partners*, requesting them to give due consideration to the environment in their procurement activities and to work together to realize the Environmental Vision 2050.
Please refer to the link “Supply Chain” for information on activities to reduce environmental impact through collaboration with partners.
* In the Group, we call our business suppliers as the “Partners” to collaborate the value creation.