Supplementary Material for Integrated Report 2018

Message from the Chairman of the Environmental Management Committee

Through environmental management based on three corporate visions, Kobe Steel aims to be a leading environmental corporate group.

The Kobe Steel Group believes that it is its duty to pass on to future generations a healthy global environment in which all forms of life can thrive. To this end, we have established a Basic Environmental Management Policy as well as six initiatives for implementation. We strive to implement environmental management that takes the environment into consideration at every stage of our operations, and have set up a dedicated Environmental Management Committee to explore and make recommendations on these six areas. With the participation of all Group employees, we are dedicated to becoming a leading environmental corporate group.

Group Environmental Management System

Basic Environmental Management Policy

As a leading environmental corporate group, the Kobe Steel Group will fulfill its social responsibilities as described in these policies, improve its environmental capabilities, and enhance its corporate value.

Basic Environmental Management Policy

The Kobe Steel Group will continue to steadily promote environmental management.

Makoto Mizuguchi

Makoto Mizuguchi
Chairman Environmental
Management Committee
(Senior Managing Executive
Officer)

In order to regain everyone’s trust, we are working as a company to radically reform our corporate culture and approach to governance, while steadily pursuing environmental initiatives. We remain as dedicated as before to an environmental management policy based on three core approaches: pursuing environmentally friendly manufacturing; contributing to the environment through our technologies, products and services; and coexisting and cooperating with society.

Maintaining the highest sense of ethics and professionalism, we aim to build a richer and more livable society. We are committed to environmental friendliness in all aspects of our manufacturing. Through environmental management, we strive to contribute to the betterment of the natural environment through our technologies, products and services.

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