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Environmental Accounting

Environmental Preservation Costs and Benefits

(Units: million yen)
Category Major
Activities
Environmental
Preservation Costs
Economic
Benefits
Accrued
Environmental Preservation Benefits
(Quantity)
Investments Expenses
Amount YoY Amount YoY Amount YoY Consumption/
Output Savings
YoY
Business area costs Pollution prevention Operation and maintenance of facilities used to prevent pollution 19.2 1,360% 22.8

116%

0

-

Use of Environmentally Hazardous Substances: 11.7 t

113%

Global environmental preservation Efficient operation and maintenance of equipment, such as air-conditioners, daily efforts to save energy, etc. 29.5 207% 42.6 1010 9.7 277% CO2 emissions per unit of production value: –0.06 t-CO2 /million yen

-

Resource circulation Appropriate processing and recycling promotion of industrial waste discharge 0

-

27.3 119% 95.6 62% Landfill waste amount:
-12.0 t

-

Industrial waste discharge per unit of production value:
–0.002 t /million yen
Sub-total - 48.7 311% 92.7 109% 105.3 67% -
Upstream /
downstream
Green procurement 0

-

1.1 147% 0

-

-
Administration Elimination of environmentally hazardous substances / Environmental management education, activities for the achievement of certification, etc. 0 -

 

172.9 103% 0

-

-
R&D Development of environmentally friendly products 0

-

50.0 111% 0

-

-
Social activity Initiatives to expand green areas at works 0

-

7.4 110% 0

-

-
Environmental remediation - 0

-

0

-

0

-

-
Total - 48.7 311% 324.1 106% 105.3 67% -
Environmental Preservation Costs

Our environmental preservation costs in fiscal 2011 increased against the previous fiscal year, in terms of both investments and expenses.
Investment costs increased due to the installation of equipment to enable wastewater reuse as a measure to reduce the environmental impact of one of our production works in China.Expenses increased due to an increase in costs associated with response to regulations concerning environmentally hazardous substances, such as the revised EU-RoHS Directive.

Economic Benefits

Economic benefits for fiscal 2011 declined against benefits for the previous fiscal year.
The main reasons for this are that we produced less waste able to be sold and a reduced amount of tools and equipment was available for reuse, with a consequent reduction in the economic benefit of reuse.

Environmental Preservation Benefits

With regard to environmental preservation benefits, our landfill waste amount declined, but we recorded increases in the other three categories.
The reasons for CO2 and industrial waste-related increases are explained in "Environmental Preservation Activities." In the case of environmentally hazardous substances, the increase was due to our increased production of touch panels, which involves numerous processes that use chemical substances.

*Accounting Procedure

(1)   SMK's environmental accounting practices adhere to the Environmental Accounting Guidelines 2005 published by Japanese Ministry of the Environment.
(2)   Figures are based on data on capital investments and other expenses (including depreciation cost) required for the environmental preservation activities, as well as data on the benefits accrued from them in terms of money and quantity, from all Japan and overseas sites of the SMK Group.
(3)   Data for environmental preservation benefits indicated a decrease in amount compared with the previous fiscal year. A year-on-year comparison is not presented for data without any reduction or comparable results with the previous fiscal year.
(4)   Economic benefits accrued are clearly demonstrable and do not include speculative benefits.
(5)   For environmentally hazardous substances in the category of environmental preservation benefits, aggregated subjects were the substances regulated under the Law Concerning Reporting, etc. of Releases to the Environment of Specific Chemical Substances and Promoting Improvements in Their Management (Pollutant Release and Transfer Register, or PRTR Law).

*Scope of calculations
Reporting period:FY2011(April 1,2011-March 31,2012)
Site in Japan
Head Office (Togoshi)
Gate City Office (Osaki)
Osaka Branch
Nagoya Branch
Ibaraki Sales Office
Hokuriku Sales Office
Fukuoka Sales Office
Toyama Works and Toyama Technology Center
Hitachi Works
Ibaraki Works
Yamato Works

Subsidiaries in Japan
Toyama Showa Co., Ltd.
Showa Denshi Co., Ltd.
Ibaraki SMK Co., Ltd.
 
Overseas Sites
ASIA
SMK High-Tech Taiwan Trading Co., Ltd.
SMK Electronics (H.K.) Ltd.
SMK Trading (H.K.) Ltd.
SMK Electronics (Dongguan) Co., Ltd.
SMK Electronics (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
SMK Electronics Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
SMK Electronics Singapore Pte. Ltd.
SMK Electronics (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd.
SMK Electronics (Phils.) Corporation
EUROPE
SMK Europe N.V.
SMK (U.K.) Ltd.
SMK Hungary Kft.
NORTH AMERICA
SMK Electronics Corporation U.S.A.
SMK Manufacturing, Inc.
SMK Electronica S.A. de C.V.