Regarding the direction of the Kurita Group’s environmentally sustainable management, which the Group regards as one of its social responsibilities, Katsuhiko Kokubu, a professor at Kobe University’s Graduate School of Business Administration and an expert in environmentally sustainable management, talked with President Hiroshi Saito of Kurita Water Industries Ltd.

Each and every employee of the Kurita Group is conducting environmental improvement activities based on the Basic Environmental Improvement Policy and the Action Guidelines.

By taking the three-pronged approach for the environment, the Kurita Group achieved the following results in fiscal 2009 and set the following targets for fiscal 2010.

• [Special Topic] Initiatives from the Aspect of “Customer Needs”
• Environmental Benefits to Customers
• Examples of Initiatives That Brought Environmental Benefits to Customers

• [Special Topic] Initiatives in the Aspect of “Internal Change”
• The Kurita Group’s Total Environmental Impact
• Environmental Accounting
• Reduction of CO2 Emissions
• Reduction of Waste
• Strengthening Management of Chemical Substances

The Kurita Group is engaged in a variety of social contribution activities based on its corporate philosophy. For example, we support R&D in the field of water and the environment and conduct cleanup activities around our sites nationwide to improve the local environment.

To ensure the disclosure of highly reliable information on a continual basis and to improve the quality of our environmental management, we ask the Institute for Environmental Management and Accounting (IEMA), as a third party, to give us their opinion concerning our environmental activities.

The Kurita Group Environmental Report PDF data