Prevention of Further Global Warming

In fiscal year 2011, CO2 emissions from Nissha bases in Japan totaled 81,123 tons, significantly exceeding 72,984 tons in fiscal year 2010 by about 11% (approximately 8,139 tons).
CO2 Emissions from overseas production bases amounted to 8,456 tons, for an increase of approximately 9% compared to 7,732 tons in the previous year.
The increase at bases in Japan resulted from the new addition of emissions from the Tsu Factory (Nitec Industries, Inc.) and Himeji Factory (Nitec Precision and Technologies, Inc.). Equipped with large facilities such as VOC control equipment and clean rooms, the two factories combined emitted some 15,054 tons of CO2 even before the start of their full-fledged operation. Conversely, emissions from Headquarters decreased by 30% (4,521 tons), and that from existing bases continued to generally decrease or to remain level.
Despite the closing of Nissha Korea High Precision Plastics Inc., CO2 emissions from overseas bases significantly increased at Southern Nissha Sdn. Bhd., Nissha (Kunshan) Precision IMD Mold Co., Ltd., and a subsidiary of Nissha USA, Inc., Eimo Technologies, Inc. At 4,755 tons, emissions from Eimo Technologies, Inc. accounted for more than half of total overseas base emissions.

In fiscal year 2011, with the current basic unit targets, our CO₂ emissions rate (per net sales) was 0.79, significantly higher than 0.61 in the previous year, due to the drop in sales and an increased use of electricity and gas.
In addition to this outcome, with the enactment of the revised Act on the Rational Use of Energy, the comprehension and management of energy use became obligatory per company. To comply with this shift, we have started managing emissions under a basic unit* management in line with legal requirements based on factors such as production volume per company. With 1.00 indicating the benchmark fiscal year 2010 results of Nissha Printing Co., Ltd., and each affiliated company (production base), fiscal year 2011 results in light of targets (0.99 or less) were as follows. We have calculated the basic unit* for NISSHA in Japan from a sum obtained by multiplying the energy use rates of each company. Nitec Industries, Inc., which uses the largest portion of energy, affected the total, and we did not meet our fiscal year 2011 overall target.