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Environmental Management Sustainability Report 2006 |
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| Environmentally Friendly Manufacturing (5) Environmental Investment and Environmental Accounting |
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| Environmental Investment |
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To reduce the environmental burden, Kobe Steel undertakes environmental capital investments of 2 to 5 billion yen annually and spends over 20 billion yen annually on the maintenance of plant and equipment. Furthermore, in order to reduce the number of processes and thoroughly recover exhaust heat, Kobe Steel has implemented various energy-saving capital investments. |
Environmental Measures: Total Maintenance Cost (Parent Company Only) |
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Environmental Measures: Total Investment (Parent Company Only) |
Energy-Saving Measures: Total Investment (Parent Company Only) |
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| Environmental Accounting |
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Kobe Steel's capital investments in fiscal 2005 amounted to approximately 3.55 billion yen and expenditures came to about 22.8 billion yen. Roughly 45% of total expenses were for air pollution prevention, 16% for water pollution prevention, and 22% for by-product and waste treatment. As these figures show, environmental measures and recycling costs accounted for a large part of total expenditures. R&D expenditures allocated for environmentally friendly product development and reducing the environmental impact of production processes accounted for approximately 7.5% of total expenditures, or 1.7 billion yen. |
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