Demands from IT related and automobile industries remained relatively favorable due to the increased demand in connection with economic growth of emerging countries in Asia including China, as well as governmental economic measures in Japan. Prices of gold, silver and copper hit the record high and the price of zinc remained favorable. On the other hand, the value of yen went up further. We have not suffered significant damage by the Great East Japan Earthquake, but some disruptions from power shortages.
We continued to improve productivity and commercialized new products responding to changing market needs and recovery of demands. As a result, we saw profit increase in each business unit and our consolidated profit reached to 23.4 billion yen, a 69% increase compared to the previous year.
We have started the environmental accounting to clearly quantitatively show our efforts and performance for environmental conservation. We calculated the environmental costs, that is, the cost of our efforts toward environmental conservation and the environmental profits, that is, the revenue gained through sale of recycled resources.
This year we surveyed how much we had improved from the environmental standpoint for the items that we could expect environmental improvements, in addition to the lower environmental costs.
Environmental Costs
For the environmental costs in 2010, total expenses were 4,939 million yen and total investments were 1,108 million yen.
| Title | Subtitle | Main expenses | Expenses and depreciation and amortization in 2010 (Million yen) | Main investments | Amount posted to fixed assets in 2010 (Million yen) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In-house costs | Cost related to pollution prevention | Purchased neutralization materials, maintenance of dust collecting equipment and analysis of discharged water, etc. | 2,413 | Installation of exhaust gas equipment, new installation of detoxification equipment, renewal of bag filter bodies and expansion of effluent treatment facilities, etc. | 860 |
| Cost related to the environment conservation | Implementation and depreciation of inverters, implementation and depreciation of energy saving furnaces, and implementation and depreciation of screw compressors, etc. | 126 | Installation of solar power generation equipment and facilities, renewal of air conditioning equipment and facilities, etc. | 121 | |
| Cost related to resource-recycling | Recycling of drums, collection of heavy metals from dust, transportation for recycling and disposal of industrial wastes, etc. | 1,825 | Recycling facilities of drums, expansion of magnetic selectors, purchasing of iron scrap collection facilities and crushing machines of waste plastics, etc. | 125 | |
| Cost related to the upper and lower streams of supply chain | Cost related to the upper and lower streams of supply chain | Cost related to difference caused by green purchasing and cost related to recycling of packaging materials, etc. | 21 | ||
| Cost related to management activities | Cost related to management activities | ISO related or work environment measurement, etc. | 315 | - | 2 |
| Cost related to R & D | Cost related to R & D | Development of semiconductor materials, etc. | 165 | ||
| Cost related to social activities | Cost related to social activities | Membership fees, measures against damage caused by pine weevils, etc. | 70 | ||
| Total | Cost related to repairing environmental damage | Cost related to repairing environmental damage | 5 | ||
| Disaster recovery works, etc. | 4,939 | 1,108 | |||
| Main efforts expecting environmental improvement effects | Annual expected environmental improvement amount |
|---|---|
| Implementation of screw compressors Implementation of highly efficient lighting systems Installation of solar generation equipment and facilities Temperature rise setting timer Rainwater use |
200 MWh 20,000 kWh 10,000 kg-CO2 39,000 kWh 200 m3 |
Sales Income from Recycled Resources
We gained 1,280 million yen for the sale of recycled raw materials, including metals, scrap and sediments from processed discharged water.
| Main products sold | Quantity (1000 t) | Sale income (Million yen) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | Iron scrap, copper wire, aluminum, silver, palladium solution and used drums, etc. | 60 |
1,240 |
| Overseas | Iron scrap, corrugated cardboard, waste wood, etc. | 2 | 40 |
| Total | 62 | 1,280 |
