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 an increase in CO₂ emissions per production when viewed in terms of unit of nominal production value (112% against the previous fiscal year), while the amount of CO₂ emissions recorded a slight decrease (96% against the previous fiscal year) for fiscal 2011, as indicated under the heading Environmental Preservation Activities. (See page 4)

 We have been working to progressively increase our level of in-house processing of parts (molding, stamping, etc.) rather than outsourcing since our base year (FY2005) towards the achievement of greater efficiency through integrated manufacturing. If we analyze trends in our total CO₂ emissions (trends in substantive CO₂ emissions) except the amount of increase due to this in-house processing by unit of actual production value (calculated with the effect of commodity prices and exchange rate change minimized), levels are almost equivalent to those for our base year. When we take into consideration the fact that we have expanded our production of touch panels, which requires the use of energy-intensive clean rooms, we can actually point to an improvement in our emissions trends. (See graphs below)