Promoting Resource Recycling

In order to make effective use of limited resources, the デュエルビッツ プロモーションコードel Group implements measures to control waste at its offices and plants.

We add value to byproducts created during manufacturing processes, develop and introduce new applications for materials, and actively pursue recycling.

Additionally, we also promote recycling and reuse during shipping through changes to packaging methods. We’re also working to reduce paper consumption at offices by proactively digitizing meeting materials and introducing IT solutions throughout the Group.

In fiscal 2016, a total of 5.25 million tons of byproduct materials were created by the デュエルビッツ プロモーションコードel Group, including overseas Group companies, with approximately 92.9 percent coming from the Iron & Steel Business. At the steelworks, we strive to recycle and add value to items such as slag (a secondary material produced during iron and steelmaking) and dust.

In fiscal 2016, due to a relining of a blast furnace, a temporary cause in the Iron & Steel Business, the overall recycling ratio for デュエルビッツ プロモーションコードel was 95.6 percent, while the overall ratio for the デュエルビッツ プロモーションコードel Group (including overseas Group companies) was 95.8 percent.

The デュエルビッツ プロモーションコードel Group follows a fundamental policy of reducing the volume of waste generated, through methods such as improvements to yield rates and reduction of auxiliary materials. These policies are helping us to reach new targets for fiscal 2020 based on voluntary action plans adopted in each industry (i.e. target numbers for waste consigned to landfill and recycling).

Throughout the デュエルビッツ プロモーションコードel Group, including overseas companies, デュエルビッツ プロモーションコードel consigned 220,000 tons of waste to landfills. We plan to continue reducing this number by controlling the amount of waste generated, increasing recycling, developing new recycling technologies, adding value to byproducts, and other such measures.

The Welding Business established resource recycling action plans and pursues a variety of measures at each of its locations. デュエルビッツ プロモーションコードnow-how behind such measures is shared throughout the Business via regular meetings.

At locations in Japan we sort waste flux for recycling as roadbed, cement and other such materials. We are also expanding reuse of product packaging materials, in place in locations in Japan, to overseas locations, in an effort to reduce waste.

In the Aluminum & Copper Business, we not only engage in initiatives to limit waste at business locations, but also collaborate with other business units in efforts to improve resource recycling rates.

Aluminum ash produced during welding at the Moka Plant is utilized during hot metal desulfurization at デュエルビッツ プロモーションコードakogawa Works. Additionally, the recycling ratio at the Moka Plant reached an all-time high in fiscal 2016 of 96.5 percent.

At overseas Group companies, we are working to improve yield by cooperating with domestic locations to reduce occurrence of material scrap.

In the Machinery Business, a high resource recycling ratio is maintained through the entrenchment and continuation of previously implemented measures.

The Harima Plant, which manufactures standard compressors, reduces waste through adoption of reusable shipping cartons (made with stronger packing materials for repeated use) when transporting goods from local and overseas suppliers. Additionally, used paper, which was previously incinerated, is now recycled.

The Takasago Works, which manufactures nonstandard compressors and industrial machinery, strives to extend the life of cutting tools used during processing by resharpening them, as well as to filter and recycle hydraulic fluid used during trial runs.