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.