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Risk Management Activities at Overseas Locations
In accordance with our Basic Environmental Management Policies, the Kobe Steel Group aims for thorough environmental management at its locations throughout the world.
Principal Overseas Group Companies Subject to Risk Management Activities
As with operating locations and Group companies in Japan, the Kobe Steel Group plans to implement environmental management systems for overseas Group companies in line with Japanese standards. To this end, since fiscal 2009 the Kobe Steel head office has been carrying out environmental inspections at manufacturing bases worldwide in order to confirm local conditions regarding environmental management.
Hereafter we will continue to raise the level of environmental management activities at overseas bases and improve Groupwide environmental management systems.
Environmental Inspection of Indian Group Companies
Checking management of oil
separation tank
In fiscal 2012 environmental inspections were carried out at three Group company sites in India serving as production bases, in order to grasp the current state of affairs and extract problems. Necessary actions are being taken based on the results of the inspections. We will continue to carry out inspections at overseas locations in fiscal 2013.
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Kobe Special Steel Wire Products (Pinghu) Co., Ltd. (KSP) in China was selected as an excellent company as part of an environmental credit rating.
Kobe Special Steel Wire Products
(Pinghu) Co., Ltd.
Notification of results of
environmental rating
In fiscal 2011 the Zhejiang Pinghu Environment Bureau carried out an environmental credit rating of 99 companies in the Pinghu Economic Development Zone.
Rated for compliance with regulations on the management of acid waste, garbage, drainage, and other such issues, KSP was one of nine companies selected as excellent corporations.
