Measures are being promoted on all fronts to reduce the environmental impact, with several billion yen invested annually in environmental facilities and more than 20 billion yen allocated each year to maintenance and management costs of plant and equipment. During 2007, additional capital investment was directed to installing dust-control nets and similar measures in response to the emissions problem. Energy-saving investment such as simplifying production processes for greater efficiency and recovering waste heat was also made.
Environmental Measures: Total Investment
Environmental Measures: Total Maintenance and Management Costs
Energy-saving Measures: Total Investment
Environment Accounting
Capital investment for 2007 totaled approximately 13.6 billion yen and expenditure reached about 39.5 billion yen. Of this expenditure, 49% went to air pollution prevention, 16% went to water pollution prevention, about 23% went to waste and byproduct processing. Also, lowering environmental impact accounted for approximately 6% of R&D expenditure, or 2.4 billion yen.
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