Environment Board

Environmental promotion organization

The environmental management activities of the JVCKENWOOD Group are implementing environmental management and spreading the policies and measures decided by the Environment Board, management’s top level decision making body.

Environmental management system

The JVCKENWOOD Group set up an environmental management system based on the ISO14001 standard and maintains its certification.

Since fiscal 2012, we started integrating the environmental management systems of JVC and Kenwood. We are working to acquire certification for all offices, non-manufacturing facilities, and affiliated companies throughout Japan based on a unified environmental policy.

Environmental green logo concept

Environmental green logo

The environmental green logo is a symbol used to indicate the JVCKENWOOD Group’s stance and efforts regarding environmental concerns.

It appears on our catalogs and environmental posters as the symbol of environmental activities of the JVCKENWOOD Group and is used to enlighten people in the company and appeal to people outside the company.

Creating eco products

Meeting to brainstorm about eco-products

In our Environmental Sustainability Office, we are leveraging our originality to reflect our environmental ideas in the development of new products as we work to create eco products with the goal of contributing to society through our products and services.

Fixing our point of view on the expected lifestyle of 2050, our business groups are creating eco products following the theme, "People of the world going happily through their days with a natural awareness of the planet and a feeling of connectedness," based on the road map for our eco promotion plans until 2020.

Environmental training

Learning about waste management

The JVCKENWOOD Group is educating employees about the environment in general training, variedlevel training, and specialized task training as an enterprise developing, producing, and selling environmentally conscience products.

All of our employees are aware of the environmental impact of the work they are doing and are making positive efforts every working day. In addition, to build a sense of corporate responsibility and to sustain and improve environmental activities, we periodically hold classes for internal auditors and for legal compliance.

Complying with environmental regulations around the world

Seminar on environmental compliance

As environmental awareness is on the rise around the world, we are teaming up with sales companies overseas and business groups to constantly gather the latest legal information and requirements from the world’s markets.

We create easy-tounderstand materials from the information we gather from around the world and distribute them to employees at every level, from planning to design, and implement product assessment training to handle environmental compliance.

Collecting information on market trends and environmental regulations from
around the world and distributing it to all our operations

Analyzing environmental preservation costs

The JVCKENWOOD Group aims for transparent and highly refined environmental management through actively publishing information and by introducing environmental accounting in line with the Ministry of Environment’s guidelines.

Investment for environmental protection in FY2011 totaled 9.8 million yen in new plants and equipment and 674.9 million yen in expenditures. Main environmental preservation expenditure items that changed greatly from the previous year were increased management activities costs by 188.9 million yen and reduced upstream and downstream costs of 86.1 million yen.

Increases in chemical management costs for complying with REACH and other regulations are a major factor in the changes in the management activities costs. Also, the increase in green procurement control management costs on the one hand and the large decreases in costs for recycling products in Japan are a major factor in changes in the upstream and downstream costs. No significant changes to factors were recorded in other areas. The environmental results assure energy-saving effects and enable sale of valuable waste. However, there is a trend towards a reduction in the effect itself and shrinking scale of environmental accounting continuing.

We are promoting activities to reduce the burden on the environment and ensure environmental effect by the adequate application of environmental preservation costs.

JVCKENWOOD environmental maintenance costs: equipment investment and costs for environmental maintenance activities (Unit: Million yen)
Activity		Explanation	Equipment investment	Expenses	Total
Business area internal costs	Pollution prevention	Costs and investment required to prevent air and water pollution	6.55	70.04	76.59
	Global environmental costs	Global warming prevention and ozone layer protection costs	1.06	8.06	9.10
	Resource cycle	Waste material reduction, recycling, and reuse costs, etc.	1.98	53.23	55.21
		Subtotal	9.59	131.31	140.90
Upstream and downstream costs		Eco product and green procurement costs, waste home appliance countermeasures, and packaging and container recycling, etc.	0.00	12.43	12.43
Management activities costs		Environmental management costs, ISO certification, maintenance, training, and staff costs	0.26	530.52	530.78
R&D costs		Eco product development, energy conservation, and harmful chemicals replacement technology development costs	0.00	0.00	0.00
Social activities costs		Amenities, contribution and support costs, and information publication, environmental advertising, and environmental exhibition costs	－	0.00	0.00
Environmental damage costs		Soil contamination countermeasure costs, reparations, fines, and other costs	0.00	0.60	0.60
		Total	9.85	674.86	684.71

Environmental results	Reduction of amount of electricity used and waste processing costs through environmental maintenance activities	Sum (Million yen)
Classification		FY2011	Past cumulative total
Reduction	Energysavings at plants	10.20	75.08
	Reduction of waste processing costs	0.63	0.51
	Reduction of water and sewer service costs	2.95	5.70
	Reduction of packing materials and logistics costs	5.53	5.53
Income	Profits from sales of recycled plant waste products	107.03
	Profits from sales of recycled products	0.10
Total		126.44	193.96

Environmental accounting scope

Period	April 1, 2011 to March 31, 2012
Total scope	JVCKENWOOD Group R&D Center, Business Center, Main Japanese Manufacturing Sites and Affiliated Manufacturing Companies Hachioji Business Center, Hakusan Business Center, Head Office & Yokohama Business Center, Yokosuka Business Center, Kurihama R&D Center, Victor Creative Media Co., Ltd., Victor Interior Furniture Co., Ltd., Kenwood Yamagata Corporation (Yamagata Plant), Kenwood Nagano Corporation (Nagano Plant)
	Global Affiliated Manufacturing Company JVC America, Inc., JVC Electronics Singapore Pte. Ltd., JVC Manufacturing Malaysia Sdn. Bhd., JVC Manufacturing (Thailand) Co., Ltd., JVC Optical Components (Thailand) Co., Ltd, P.T. JVC Electronics Indonesia Shanghai Kenwood Electronics Co. Ltd., Kenwood Electronics Technologies Singapore Pte. Ltd., Kenwood Electronics Technologies Malaysia Sdn. Bhd., Kenwood Electronics Bretagne S.A.

Reference guidelines: Ministry of the Environment, Environmental Accounting Guidelines, 2005