Environmental Targets and Results
◎：Goal Achieved ▲：Partially Achieved ×：Not Achieved
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FY2024 Goals |
Results |
Comments |
FY2025 Goals |
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| Response to climate change | Energy consumption rate 1% reduction compared to FY2023 at all sites |
◎ | Goal achieved | Energy consumption rate 1% reduction compared to FY2024 at all sites |
| Loading size (loading rate) improvement Goal values set for each site |
◎ | Goal achieved | Loading size (loading rate) improvement Goal values set for each site |
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| Development and design of eco friendly products | Development of products using refrigerants with low global warming potential | ◎ | Completed the shift to natural refrigerants for all standard upright and undercounter refrigerators and freezers | Development of products using refrigerants with low global warming potential |
| Worked on adopting natural refrigerants for small and medium-sized cube ice makers | ||||
| Worked on switching some ice makers to refrigerant R-448A | ||||
| Improvement in product energy efficiency | ◎ | In working to shift products to natural refrigerants, we ensured energy efficiency equivalent to that of conventional models | — | |
| Promotion of effective use of resources | Rate of yield on metal materials Goal values set for each department and each relevant process |
▲ | Due to the product mix of production models and difficulties in procuring sketching materials, some departments were unable to achieve their targets | Rate of yield on metal materials Goal values set for each department and each relevant process |
| Internal failure costs of plastic materials Goal values set for each department |
◎ | We have achieved the target value for the annual cumulative amount. | Internal failure costs of plastic materials Goal values set for each department |
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| Reducing waste product generation Return rate of machines with market complaints (Reduction of market complaint products helps reduce waste generation) Head Office Plant: Target of 0.269% or lower (25% reduction compared to FY2020) Shimane Plant: Target of 0.103% or lower (30% reduction compared to FY2021) |
× | We did not achieve the targets for FY2024. Head Office Plant: 0.373% Shimane Plant: 0.143% |
Reducing waste product generation Return rate of machines with market complaints (Reduction of market complaint products helps reduce waste generation) Head Office Plant: Target of 0.269% or lower (25% reduction compared to FY2020) Shimane Plant: Target of 0.114% or lower (20% reduction compared to FY2024) |
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| Zero emissions Promoting the Recycling of Reusable Materials and Waste |
◎ | We continue to maintain zero emissions with a recycling rate of 99.4%. | Zero emissions Promoting the Recycling of Reusable Materials and Waste |
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| Compliance with efforts for legal obligations | Communicated the direction of initiatives to comply with the Act for Promotion of Recycling of Plastic Materials | ◎ | At the Environmental Management Supervisory Committee meeting in January 2024, it was reported that activities to promote the effective use of resources would continue | — |
| Conservation of the natural environment | Execution of activities for the conservation of the natural environment | ◎ | We cooperated with and participated in nature conservation activities and local cleanup activities | — |
* Scope: Hoshizaki Head Office Plant and Shimane Plant
Material Flow
* Results for FY2024
* Scope covers only Hoshizaki, non-consolidated basis in Japan