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Basic approach and related initiatives

Since fiscal 2001, OMRON has been implementing environmental accounting practices to quantitatively analyze and manage investments and costs associated with environmental conservation, along with the resulting benefits, toward the aim of more efficiently investing in environmental improvement. Based on the OMRON Environmental Accounting Manual that conforms to the Environmental Accounting Guidelines 2005 issued by the Ministry of the Environment, only direct benefits are calculated as economic benefits to make more effective use of environmental accounting for promoting environmental management. In fiscal 2006, environmental accounting was introduced at five additional sites, but integration/consolidation of sites resulted in the elimination of nine sites, resulting in a total of 43 sites implementing environmental accounting, four sites fewer than fiscal 2005.

In fiscal 2006, environmental investments amounted to approximately 300 million yen, while environmental expenses were approximately 4.3 billion yen. Environmental costs decreased approximately 2.9 billion yen compared to fiscal 2005, which corresponded to R & D costs spent to respond to RoHS during the previous year.

Environmental benefits totaled approximately 1 billion yen, due to the significant increase in gain from the sale of valuable resources resulting from soaring prices of metal.

Environmental Conservation Costs

(Units: Millions of yen)

Item Previous fiscal year Fiscal 2006 Change
(increase or decrease) vs.
previous year
Content of major efforts
Amount
of
invest-
ment
Amount
of
expense
Amount
of
invest-
ment
Amount
of
expense
Amount
of
invest-
ment
Amount
of
expense
(1) Costs within
business area
264.0 515.0 322.1 555.3 58.1 40.3  
Break
down
(1)-1
Pollution prevention costs
62.5 156.6 57.2 113.6 -5.3 -43.0 Costs for prevention of air, water and soil pollution
(1)-2
Global warming prevention costs
191.9 118.4 261.4 159.3 69.5 40.9 Costs of energy-saving strategies, prevention of global warming, etc.
(1)-3
Resource recycling costs
9.6 240.0 3.5 282.4 -6.1 42.4 Cost of waste recycling and processing.
(2) Upstream and downstream costs 0.0 3.6 0.0 814.6 0.0 811.0 Cost of product and packaging recycling, collection, etc.
(3) Management activity costs 0.9 562.8 0.6 479.9 -0.3 -82.9 Cost of environmental promotion activities, obtaining and maintaining ISO 14001 certification, assessing environmental impact, etc.
(4) R & D costs 0.0 6,079.4 0.0 2,423.4 0.0 -3,656.0 R & D costs of eco-friendly products
(5) Social action costs 0.0 16.4 0.0 16.4 0.0 -0.0 Costs of afforestation, local clean up, and other environmental improvement activities
(6) Environmental restoration costs 0.0 53.2 0.0 29.7 0.0 -23.5 Costs of restoring polluted soil or groundwater
Total 264.9 7,230.4 322.7 4,319.2 57.8 -2,911.2  

Note: Does not include "Other costs (G)"

Units: Millions of yen

Items with anticipated effect Previous fiscal year Fiscal 2006 Change (increase or decrease) vs. previous year
(1) Total investment for the term 41,100 44,400 3,300
(2) Total R & D costs for the term 50,500 52,000 1,500

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Environmental Conservation Effects
Description of effects Classification of index Unit Previous fiscal year Fiscal 2006 Change (increase or decrease) vs. previous year
(1) Effects corresponding to costs within business areas 1) Effects from resources invested in business activities Energy consumption (TJ) 1,579.4 1,624.1 45
Water consumption (10,000 m³) 98.1 87.3 -11
Amount of resources invested (t) 9,921.2 11,718.0 1,797
Amounts of PRTR substances handled (Chemical substances handled) (t) 64.7 64.1 -1
2) Effects related to environment impact and waste products from business activities Amount of atmospheric CO2 emissions (t-CO2) 66,312.6 67,899.5 1,587
Amount of waste water discharge (10,000 m³) 74.7 70.5 -4
Amount of waste discharged (t) 5,234.2 5,946.7 713
Amount of discharge of PRTR substances (Amount of chemical substances handled) (t) 7.9 5.4 -3
(2) Effects corresponding to upstream and downstream costs 3) Effects on products and services as calculated from business activities Amount of containers and packaging used (t) 2,858.8 2,787.0 -72
(3) Other environmental conservation effects 4) Effects related to transportation, etc. Amount of transport (t) 97,138.0 91,261.0 -5,877

Source: Mass balance data

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Economic Effects Accompanying Environmental Conservation Efforts

Units: Millions of yen

Items with actual effects Previous fiscal year Fiscal 2006 Change (increase or decrease) vs. previous year
(1) Revenue   931.5 931.5
(2) Cost reduction 97.4 25.4 -72.0
Breakdown (2)-1 Cost reduction due to resource inputs 30.1 20.7 -9.4
(2)-2 Cost reductions associated with environmental impact and waste discharge 67.3 4.6 -62.7
(2)-3 Cost reductions in environmental restoration   0.0 0.0
(2)-4 Other cost reductions   0.0 0.0
Total 97.4 956.9 859.5

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Range Covered
  Number of business sites
Production bases OMRON 5
Affiliated companies 12
Non-production bases OMRON 11
Affiliated companies 14
Total 42

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