Environmental conservation costs amounted to some 1.33 billion yen in fiscal year 2011. By category, business area costs made up the largest portion, at around 75%. Costs for three Factories of Nitec Industries, Inc., which handles production for the Industrial Materials Business, were highest, mostly consisting of the depreciation cost for large facilities we installed in fiscal year 2011, such as the VOC combustion unit and the scrubber unit for the plate making process. We are striving to comply with environment-relate laws by responding to new issues that are expected to arise from the building of new factories. Following business area costs, R&D costs made up the second largest portion of the whole, at around 15%, mostly consisting of the cost for an analyzing device for chemical substances and personnel costs. Administration costs made up around 7% of the whole but are decreasing.
A large part of our environmental conservation expenditure comprised costs, of which depreciation costs and property taxes for industrial pretreatment facilities totaled 46%. This was followed by external costs such as facility maintenance and administration fees, at around 29%, and personnel costs, at around 20%. We have calculated upstream/downstream costs mainly from the cost of our supplier management group’s activities, which started in fiscal year 2011.
The scope for calculations this time includes all bases in Japan, in contrast to Headquarters in the past.
We plan to continue preparing environmental accounting data in the next fiscal year and onward, and hope to make the data even more meaningful such as by dividing it into maintenance costs for complying with environment-related laws and regulations and costs for actively reducing environmental impact (toward our environmental objectives and targets).
