Customer Needs

Environmental Benefits to Customers

The Kurita Group calculates the environmental impact reductions that customers have achieved by adopting the Kurita Group's improvement proposals as "environmental benefits to customers."

Fiscal 2011 Environmental Benefits to Customers

This section reports on the environmental impact reductions achieved at our customers' factories and other sites in fiscal year ended March 2011.

Type of benefit Environmental benefits to customers*1
CO2 CO2 emissions reduction
Waste Waste reduction
Substances of concern Reduction of substances of concern
Water pollutants Wastewater treatment
Soil and groundwater pollutants Remediation of contaminated soil
*1. The results shown above include the environmental benefits to customers regarding “societal needs.” The environmental benefits to customers are calculated not based on actual results but on estimates (“deemed effect”). Specifically, based on the environmental impact reductions that we have estimated in our specifications and proposals submitted to customers, we calculate the annual difference between the amounts of the customer’s environmental impact before and after adopting our proposal. *2. CO2 conversion factors: 0.65 kg- CO2 /m3 for tap water and sewage water *3. Definite data on greenhouse gas emissions in Japan from April 1, 1990 to March 31, 2010 announced by the Greenhouse Gas Inventory Office of Japan, the Center for Global Environmental Research on April 26, 2011 *4.Use by a household of four members (according to the 2009 survey on water utilization in daily life conducted by the Bureau of Waterworks, Tokyo Metropolitan Government) *5. Amount of waste generated by a household of four members, which is calculated based on per-capita waste generation shown in the Annual Report on the Environment, and the Sound Material-Cycle Society and the Biodiversity in Japan 2010 (released by the Japanese Ministry of the Environment on June 2010)

The Kurita Group's Products, Technologies and Services

We propose and provide products, technologies, and services that support customers to improve productivity while reducing their environmental impact.

Water Treatment Chemicals We manufacture and sell water treatment chemicals, and provide maintenance services
Boiler water treatment chemicals
Cooling water treatment chemicals
Process treatment chemicals
Wastewater treatment chemicals
Water Treatment facilities We manufacture and sell water treatment facilities, and provide maintenance services, outsourcing services and ultrapure water supply services.
Water treatment systems
Wastewater treatment systems
Water treatment systems
Soil and groundwater remediation

Customer Needs

 

Environmental Activities

Interview with the President
Environmental Management
Approach to Environmental Improvement Activities
Environmental Management System/Acquisition of ISO 14001 Certification/Compliance with Environmental Laws and Regulations
The Three Aspects of Kurita’s Environmental Improvement Activities
Societal Needs
Customer Needs
Environmental Benefits to Customers
Examples of Initiatives That Brought Environmental Benefits to Customers’ Factories and Other Sites/Examples of Environmental Benefits for Customers
Internal Change
Total Environmental Impact
Environmental Accounting
Results in Fiscal Year ended March 2011
Targets for Fiscal Year ending March 2012
Site Report
Social Contribution Activities
Third-Party Opinion
Environmental Report Download Page

The Kurita Group's Environmental Improvement Activities