SMK is working to improve its energy efficiency as part of its efforts to prevent global warming, an important management goal for the company. We are also working to reduce industrial waste discharge amount and to realize zero emissions (zero landfill waste), in an attempt to use our resources more efficiently.

◎SMK recorded increases in both CO2 emissions per unit of production when viewed in terms of nominal production value (111% against the previous fiscal year) and the amount of CO2 emissions (103% against the previous fiscal year), as indicated in "Environmental Preservation Activities" for 2010.

◎We have made progress since our base year (FY2005) in performing parts production (molding, stamping, etc.) in-house (rather than outsourcing them) in an attempt to increase our production efficiency. As a result of this in-house production, however, our CO2 emissions have displayed a tendency to increase year by year.
If we analyze trends in our CO2 emissions (trends in substantive CO2 emissions) in terms of our real gross output, which is minimally affected by price fluctuations and exchange rates, and exclude the increase due to in-house production, the emissions are largely equivalent to emissions in our base year. If we take into consideration the fact that we have expanded our ratio of production of touch panels, the production of which requires a great deal of energy, our emissions trends are actually showing an improvement. (See graph below).