Environmental Accounting

The Kobe Steel Group continuously engages in environmental conservation.
The costs and benefits of these efforts are analyzed, and relevant information is disclosed in order to deepen stakeholders’ understanding of our initiatives.

Kobe Steel, Ltd. invests in the installation and continual maintenance of environmental equipment, and pursues environmental measures on a variety of fronts. In fiscal 2018, we invested approximately ¥3.1 billion, primarily to reduce CO₂ emissions, to prevent air and water pollution, and to recycle waste.

Expenses in fiscal 2018 totaled ¥35.2 billion. Moreover, we invested about 27% of total expenses, or roughly ¥9.4 billion, in R&D for technology development, including to make automobile weight reduction proposals that combine competitiveness in the raw materials of cutting-edge high-strength steel and aluminum with solution technologies, applying our strengths in steel, aluminum and welding materials.

In the future, we will continue to implement measures related to environmental preservation.