Environmental Policy

Implementing an integrated environmental management system that ensures that corporate activities are good for both people and the environment

The Konica Minolta Group conducts all of its corporate activities in harmony with people and the environment by integrating environmental, economic and social perspectives into the Group’s corporate strategy, as the Environmental Policy of the Konica Minolta Group. The Group’s basic approach is to work steadily to solve environmental issues, based on securing reliable data and quantitative measurement of performance and impacts.
Based on this policy and approach, the Group works to reduce the environmental impact of its products and services over their entire life cycle. The Group places particular emphasis on preventing global warming, supporting a recycling-oriented society, and reducing the risk of chemical substances.
Furthermore, in the area of biodiversity, Konica Minolta evaluates the impact of its business activities on ecosystems and examines specific measures for managing the potential effects.

• Konica Minolta Environmental Policy

Management System

Operating environmental management system based on ISO 14001

To ensure efficient implementation of environmental management throughout the Group as a whole, Konica Minolta operates its management system based on ISO 14001, and adopts as its basic policy that all Group production sites around the world obtain ISO 14001 certification.
To address a range of environmental issues, it is necessary to implement measures that take into account each stage in the product life cycle. To accomplish this, Konica Minolta believes that it must operate not only its manufacturing sites, but also its product development, sales and administration divisions, under an integrated management system with efficient cooperation between divisions. Based on this concept, Group companies in Japan have acquired multi-site ISO 14001 certification so that the entire Group can be managed under a single ISO certification.
In conducting activities, the Group sets numerical targets and periodically evaluates attainment. The evaluation results are reported back to each site to enable continuous improvement.

Environmental Audits

At Konica Minolta, the Group Internal Environmental Auditing Committee, which is chaired by the head of the Corporate Audit Division at Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc., directs the internal environmental auditing for the entire Group.
In addition, internal environmental audits are carried out at least once a year to confirm proper functioning of the management system and to assess compliance. In this way, the Group ensures that all its organizations are fully compliant.

Compliance with Environmental Regulations

Strengthening the compliance system and making provisions for future regulations

As environmental awareness grows around the world, new environmental regulations are being put into place in various countries and regions. These regulatory initiatives focus not only on strengthening and revising existing anti-pollution measures, but also address wider issues of protecting the environment. To reduce the business risks that compliance entails, it is necessary to look beyond existing legislation and make robust provisions for future regulations.
Konica Minolta is implementing its compliance system worldwide using compliance diagnosis in order to understand and comply fully with these regulations. In addition, the Group is reinforcing its systems to monitor regulatory trends in each country and region where it operates. Further, Konica Minolta is building a system that enables a two-way exchange of information between the four specialist compliance organizations located in Japan, China, Europe, and the United States and the production sites that they oversee. In fiscal 2010, there was no major infringement of environmental regulations.