SustainabilityEnvironmentTargets and results

We have established three major themes and are working on environmental activities by setting targets at each site.
We have set a CO2 reduction target for fiscal 2030 of 46% lower than the level in fiscal 2013 in accordance with government targets.

Results in fiscal 2022 and targets for fiscal 2023

Results in fiscal 2022
We achieved our target in 36 out of 37 categories.

The Energy Conservation and Environment Conference, led by the newly established Environment Promotion Department, was held every three months to further promote environmental activities, including energy conservation throughout the Group. Specific initiatives included converting several sites to 100% power generated from renewable energy sources, upgrading to energy-saving, high-efficiency air conditioners, and creating power consumption visualization to help determine the next plan. Each TOCALO site sets independent environmental targets.

In fiscal 2022, the ratio of electricity consumption (MWh) to sales (millions of yen) was reduced to 1.07 from 1.61 in the previous fiscal year, showing results in our energy-saving and efficiency efforts.

The main themes in fiscal 2022 related to ISO 14001 were conserving energy and resources in our business activities, using our businesses to make a positive contribution to the environment, and mitigating climate change. As a result, although we did not achieve one of our energy conservation-related targets, we were successful in achieving all other 36 targets.

Targets for fiscal 2023
We are focusing on conserving energy and resources in our business activities, using our businesses to make a positive contribution to the environment, and mitigating climate change.

TOCALO has set the group goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 54% of the fiscal 2013 level by fiscal 2030. We will achieve that first by improving our production efficiency to consume less electricity and also by using solar power generation to produce our own power source and purchasing electricity generated from renewable energy sources.

We are also replacing the remaining fluorescent lights with LEDs and planning to recycle the cooling water used in plants. Although our environmental performance could waver slightly because of the order-driven nature of our industry, we are working to achieve our reduction targets for greenhouse gas emissions as quickly as possible.

In fiscal 2022, one of our measures was to install additional electricity monitors to visualize electricity usage. Going forward, our task is to determine how to efficiently reduce electricity consumption based on more detailed electricity consumption data. We will continue to try out various methods as we work toward further energy conservation.

Our main themes in fiscal 2023 related to ISO 14001 will continue to be conserving energy and resources in our business activities, using our businesses to make a positive contribution to the environment, and mitigating climate change. All of our bases will set goals and conduct activities toward the same targets.

Achieved Not Achieved
Site Environmental target Target for fiscal 2022 Fiscal 2022 results
Conserving energy and resources in our business activities
Miyagi Energy- and resource-saving activities Establishing technologies contributing to the environment (promoting automation)
(1) Energy-saving: Automating inspections
(2) Energy-saving: Automating inspections
(3) Resource-saving: Automating blasting
(4) Energy-saving: Automating thermal spraying 		(1) On hold
(2) On hold
(3) On hold
(4) On hold		 Achieved
Tokyo Gyoda Energy- and resource-saving activities Installing energy-saving hybrid chillers Completed order Achieved
Energy- and resource-saving activities Reducing electricity use by TD process Confirmed reduction impact Achieved
Energy- and resource-saving activities Exploring collection and material reuse of waste thermal spray materials Held meetings with material manufacturers
Selected manufacturers for reuse
Completed thermal spray testing with recycled materials		 Achieved
Reduction of the defect rate Thermal spray material use during rework/re-coating 1.8% or less of total material use/year 1.80% Achieved
Reduction of the defect rate Quality control nonconformance/complaint rate 0.07% or less/year 0.0004% Achieved
Tokyo Suzumi Energy- and resource-saving activities Reduce thermal spray material use by 10% Achieved 10 cases of at least 10% reduction Achieved
Energy- and resource-saving activities Keep dust collector operation time within 140% of arc time through booth environment improvements Dust collector operation time within 140% of arc time: 9 of 12 months Achieved
Energy- and resource-saving activities Examine resource consumption reduction methods Examined recycling carbide tips, grindstones, etc. Achieved
Reduction of the defect rate Quality control nonconformities: 3 cases or less/month 3 nonconformities or less: 9 of 12 months Achieved
Nagoya Energy- and resource-saving activities Investigate peak electricity consumption trends and rebalance use Lowered peak power consumption by dividing lunch breaks into three shifts smileface
Kobe Energy- and resource-saving activities Measures to reduce electricity consumption: 1 case/year 1 case Achieved
Water resource use Measures to reuse water resources: 2 cases/year 2 cases Not Achieved
Akashi Energy- and resource-saving activities Zero air leaks by visualizing air data through air flow management Formulated plan, executed action, confirmed zero air leaks through observation, continuing cycle Achieved
Promotion of recycling Recycle empty thermal spray material plastic containers: 1,000 kg/year 1,210 kg Not Achieved
Promotion of recycling of thermal spray materials by Thermal Spray 1 Department Recovery rate of A materials: 6,900 kg or more/year at Akashi Plant overall, 140 kg or more/year at Akashi No. 4 Plant Akashi Plant: 7,000 kg
No. 4 Plant: 150 kg		 Not Achieved
Promotion of recycling of thermal spray materials by Thermal Spray 2 Department Recovery rate of B materials: 130 kg or more/year 182.78 kg Achieved
Promotion of recycling of thermal spray materials by Thermal Spray 3 Department Recovery rate of C materials: 440 kg or more 465.8 kg Achieved
R&D Energy- and resource-saving activities Identify electricity consumption through installation of electricity monitors Installed electricity monitors for all equipment over 10 kW output Achieved
Kurashiki Reduction of paper usage Reduction of paper usage to 14,500 sheets or less/month, 174,000 sheets or less/year Average 13,418 sheets/month, 161,016 sheets for the year Achieved
Kitakyushu Energy- and resource-saving activities Reduction of the ratio of annual power consumption to sales by 5% from the previous fiscal year Reduced by 7.95% year on year Achieved
Contributing to the environment by promoting business activities
Headquarters New proposals/orders New project orders: ¥1,000,000 or more/month
Target: ¥12,000,000 or more/year		 ¥70,033,000 Achieved
Tokyo Suzumi New proposals/orders Orders received for new items: ¥350,000,000 or more/year ¥443,430,000 Achieved
Nagoya New proposals/orders Orders received for new items: ¥512,400,000 or more/year ¥530,003,000 Achieved
Kobe New proposals/orders Orders received for new items helping with customer GHG reduction: 10 orders/year 10 orders Achieved
Akashi New proposals/orders Number of new customer visits: 19 or more visits/month
Target: 228 or more visits/year		 Average 19.5 visits/month, 234 visits for the year Achieved
R&D New development activities Initiatives for new development: 60 or more cases/year 60 cases Not Achieved
New development activities In-house development of coatings or equipment to contribute to environmental improvements: 3 or more projects/year 4 cases Achieved
Kurashiki New proposals/orders Orders received for new items: ¥137,000,000 or more/year ¥184,820,000 Achieved
Kitakyushu New proposals/orders Orders received for new items: ¥252,000,000 or more/year ¥401,176,000 Achieved
Mitigating climate change
Headquarters Promoting business activities Disclose Group company environmental information Consolidated data partially disclosed on the corporate website smileface
Miyagi Energy savings/renewable energy Reduce CO2 emissions by switching to renewable energy
(1) Switch to electricity from renewable energy
(2) Reduce emissions by 50% during LP gas use by switching equipment
(3) Improve efficiency of solar power generation facilities and visualize generation results 		(1) Completed switch in October
(2) Construction completed in March
(3) Higher efficiency achieved in October through repowering
  Visualization completed in November		 sadface
Global warming mitigation Reduce CO2 emissions through work style reforms and sales activities
(1) Reduce CO2 emissions from commuting by 15% through telecommuting
(2) Eco actions (from improvement proposals to implementation): 3 cases/year
(3) Plan to introduce one EV vehicle and improve charging infrastructure in fiscal 2023 		(1) Achieved: Average reduction of 15%
(2) Achieved: 3 cases
(3) Introduction not completed, but examinations toward introduction completed		 smileface
Akashi Global warming mitigation Completely eliminate equipment using the R-22 CFC
Replace target equipment or formulate improvement plan		 All equipment eliminated except 2 units; upgrade plan formulated for remaining units smileface
Others
Nagoya Promotion of recycling Investigate and examine recyclable waste Contracted with contractor recycling 100% of waste plastics sadface
Akashi Reduction of waste Separate disposal of waste dust: 20,000 kg/year or more 25,670 kg sadface
Kitakyushu Reduction of waste Reduce waste emissions by 0.5% of sales year on year Reduced by 21% year on year sadface
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