Drop in the Recycling and Resource Reuse Rate for Nissha Operations in Japan to 99.4%

In the fiscal year 2009, the waste recycling and resource reuse rate for Nissha operations in Japan dropped to 99.4% due to adjustments made to calculations for the Kameoka Factory of Nitec Industries, Inc. and the Kumihama Factory of Nitec Mold Engineering, Inc. The Nissha Group will work in concert to raise the rate and achieve "zero emissions".
The Osaka Division Headquarters, which is a sales base, achieved "zero emissions" with a recycling and resource reuse rate of 99.9% in March 2008. This was finally made possible after several years by recycling waste that until now had been incinerated or sent to landfills, thus overcoming an issue commonly faced in a multi-tenant office building. This high rate of recycling and resource reuse is being maintained in the fiscal year 2010 as well.

Establishment of the Waste Management Standards for Nissha Business Sites in Japan

The Waste Management Standards for Nissha Business Sites in Japan was created in August 2008 based on the Waste Disposal and Public Cleansing Law and other related regulations, in order to standardize the level of waste management.
Beginning in September 2008, Nissha, under the initiative of the Environmental Management, conducted inspections of the waste management status at all its bases in Japan, including branch offices located in urban multi-tenant office buildings, based on the Waste Management Standards.
No instances of regulatory non-compliance were found, and guidance was provided to each business site regarding waste management from the perspectives of safety, accident prevention and information management with a view to further enhancing the level of risk management. In the future, Nissha will continue to strengthen waste management across the group based on the Waste Management Standards.

Initiatives at Overseas Production Bases

Nissha is also engaged in activities to sort and reduce waste at its overseas production bases with consideration to conditions in each country and region. Southern Nissha, Malaysia, achieved a recycling and resource reuse rate of more than 90% between February and March 2009, while Nissha (Kunshan), China, averaged 88% in the second half of the fiscal year 2009. Nissha attributes this to enhanced environmental awareness of all its employees. New goals for the fiscal year 2010 have been set for Southern Nissha, Guangzhou Nissha, Nissha (Kunshan) and Nissha Korea High Precision Plastics, and initiatives are currently underway.

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* Numerical data has been included for Nitec Mold Engineering, Inc. and Nitec Industries, Inc. (Koka Factory) since the fiscal year 2007, and for Osaka and Tokyo Division Headquarters from the fiscal year 2008.

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