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Environmental Management at Konica Minolta

Environmental Accounting

The amount invested in fiscal 2010 was three times greater, at about 3.6 billion yen, than the previous fiscal year. The main reason for the increase was capital investment in a plant producing TAC film for LCD polarizers, which was completed in July 2010 in Kobe. Expenses were approximately 11.9 billion yen, similar to the previous year. The main elements of the R&D costs, which accounted for 35.5%, were development of energy-saving technologies for office equipment, creation of new products that make an environmental contribution, and technological development for production processes.

Results for Fiscal 2010 and Budget for Fiscal 2011

(Unit: ¥1 million)

Types of Environmental Conservation Activities		Major Initiatives	Fiscal 2010 Results			Fiscal 2011 Budget
Types of Environmental Conservation Activities		Major Initiatives	Investment	Expenditures	Economic Benefits	Investment	Expenditures
1. Business area cost			2,589	4,233	14,882	717	4,252
	1) Pollution prevention cost	Implemented wastewater treatment facilities maintenance, reduced atmospheric emission of VOCs, and carried out chemicals management	1,476	2,094	1	139	1,923
	2) Preventing global warming cost	Promoted energy conservation	479	601	375	255	663
	3) Resource circulation cost	Recovered solvents and recovered silver from waste	633	1,538	14,506	324	1,666
2. Upstream / downstream costs		Recovered silver from collected products, and collected and recycled products in business technologies business	1	1,602	2,090	1	1,572
3. Administration cost		Implemented environmental management systems	9	1,511	0	3	1,311
4. R&D cost		Developed energy-saving products and products containing no hazardous substances, as well as new products that make an environmental contribution	980	4,240	2	461	5,313
5. Social activity cost		Implemented environmental conservation activities	0	106	0	0	107
6. Environmental remediation cost		Restored contaminated soil	2	237	0	0	427
7. Other costs			0	3	0	0	24
Total			3,581	11,933	16,975	1,183	13,004

Fiscal 2010 Results: Environmental Conservation Benefits
Stage	Type of benefit	Benefits
Production	Water use reduced *¹	241 thousand m³
	Electricity reduced *¹	12.6 million kWh
	Natural gas reduced *¹	2,339 thousand m³
	Heavy oil reduced *¹	115 kL
	Emissions of target chemical substances reduced *¹	5.8 t
	Resource input reduced *¹	98.7 kt
	External recycling and reuse of waste *²	22.0 kt
Sales	Packaging reduced *¹	229 t
Sales	Recycling and reuse of materials from used products *²	8.5 kt
Usage	CO₂ emissions reduced *³	4.7 kt-CO₂

*1: Calculated by subtracting the actual consumption amount from the consumption amount estimated for the case in which the environmental preservation activity was not implemented.
*2: The environmental conservation benefits are calculated as the volume recycled and reused.
*3: CO₂ emissions are calculated for major new products that were shipped in fiscal 2009 by subtracting the estimated CO₂ emissions associated with the new products in use from the estimated CO₂ emissions associated with the conventional products in use.

Fiscal 2010 Results: Impact of End User Usage
Stage	Type of benefit	Benefits
Usage	Electricity consumption reduced *⁴	9.4 million kWh
Usage	Electricity bills reduced *⁵	135 million yen

*4: Electricity consumption reduced is calculated for major new products that were shipped in fiscal 2009 by subtracting the estimated energy consumption of the new products in use from the estimated energy consumption of the conventional products in use.
*5: Calculated by multiplying the average electrical power unit price over the Group's production sites in Japan by the amount of electricity consumption reduced.