Social Aspects of Environmentally-friendly Management
DOWA Holdings received a top rating in the environmental rating review system of the Development Bank of Japan as of January 31, 2012 among business entities promoting environmental management and obtained a loan under the system.
For our efforts for responding to important social issues, see "Social Performance".
Financial Highlights
While we faced severe situations including financial problems in Europe, floods in Thailand and shrinking domestic market, demands from automobile industries have recovered rapidly from the drop caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011. Demands for electronic materials including products for smartphones and tablets also have expanded. While metal prices remained high in the commodity market, the yen remained high in the exchange market.
Under such circumstances we have been striving to continue business on a stable basis, including reconstruction of production bases in Japan that were affected by the earthquake and responding to anticipated summer power shortage. We have also been promoting business deployment into Asia actively and responding agilely to the changing business environments. As a result we managed to keep consolidated recurring profits only by 10% less than the previous year, amounting to 20.9 billion yen.
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Economic Aspects of Environmentally-friendly Management
Economic Aspects per Our Business Establishment
In response to the nuclear power plants that ceased operations, each of our business establishments took measures to save electricity, increase in-house power generation and introduce gas power generation to cooperate with the governmental policies. The costs of our environmental management efforts in 2011 (environmental costs) and sales income from recycled resources both increased from the previous year. Investment in the cost items of environmental conservation increased compared to the previous year, and some costs of maintenance nature also increased that belong to the pollution prevention cost and a better result than is expected by the regulation could not achieved.
Environmental Costs
For the environmental costs in 2011, total expenses were 5,543 million yen and total investments were 1,395 million yen.
| Main efforts expecting environmental improvement effects | Expected environmental improvement amount per year |
|---|---|
| Reduction of LPG by upgrading boilers for air conditioning | 16,000kg |
| Reduction of water usage by changing routes of cooling water | 62,000m3 |
| Controlling high voltage motors using inverters | 200MWh |
| Recovery of heavy metals from bag dust | 210,000kg |
(Million yen)
| Title | Subtitle | Main expenses item | Expenses and depreciation and amortization in 2011 | Main investments | Amount posted to fixed assets in 2011 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In-house costs | Cost related to pollution prevention | Purchased neutralization materials, maintenance of dust collecting equipment and analysis of discharged water, etc. | 2,885 |
Purchased vehicles mounted with urea SCR equipment, replacement of bag filter cloth and work for effluent treatment facilities | 421 |
| Cost related to the environment conservation | Cost for outsourcing CFC disposal, implementation and depreciation of inverters, implementation and depreciation of energy saving furnaces, etc. | 104 | Installation of highly efficient electric furnaces, renewal of forced draft fans, etc. | 791 | |
| Cost related to resource-recycling | Outsourcing of recycling of ash dust and disposal of waste oil, etc. | 1,812 | Purchasing of iron scrap recovery facilities (disassembling workshops), etc | 149 | |
| Cost related to the upper and lower streams of supply chain | Transportation cost of returning pallets, etc. cost related to recycling of packaging materials, etc |
17 | Replacement of flow meters | 3 | |
| Cost related to management activities | ISO related or work environment measurement, etc | 359 | 32 | ||
| Cost related to R & D | Development and streamlining of processes, etc. | 265 | |||
| Cost related to social activities | Membership fees, etc. | 69 | |||
| Cost related to repairing environmental damage | Reserve for covering dumps with soil and planting | 33 | |||
| Total | 5,543 | 1,395 | |||
Sales Income from Recycled Resources
We gained 1,583 million yen for the sale of recycled raw materials, including metals, scrap and sediments from processed discharged water.
| Main products sold | Quantity (1000 t) | Sales income (Million yen) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | Iron scrap, copper wire, aluminum, etc. | 60 | 1,240 |
| Overseas | Paper, waste wood and scrap metal, etc. | 2 | 40 |
