KURABO Annual Environmental Report

Environmental Burden

Perspective

The Kurabo Group has been endeavoring to constantly supply high quality products and services to the market in its efforts in contributing to the improvement of life and culture, and to correctly grasp to reduce environmental load imposed by its business activities.
The Kurabo Group's material flow of fiscal 2010 is shown below:

Environmental Targets

We, at Kurabo, have declared the interim environmental targets (3 years) in order to promote the environmental conservation activities in a more systematic manner, and have been working on the prevention of global warming and effective use of resources.
With regard to the result in FY2010, the CO2 emission reduction target has remained unachieved. Although production dropped due to sluggish economy during FY2009, the base year, production has in general shown a recovery in FY2010. Despite a sharp reduction obtained from the fuel shift of Tokushima Plant, CO2 emission of the entire Group showed a slight increase along with production increase. However, progress toward higher efficiency has been confirmed because many plants showed a reduction in terms of the basic unit of production in which emission amount is divided by production amount. As for reduction of copy paper consumption, the target value was not attained because of an increase in the number of slips, etc. as a result of production increase.
As for other targets, satisfactory progresses were made and all the target values have been attained.

Target Item	Targeted Establishment	FY 2010
Target Item	Targeted Establishment	Target	Result	Eval
Reduction of CO₂ emission	Entire Kurabo Group	7% reduction on FY 2009 result	Increase by 1%
	(General establishments)	(Reduction by 1%)	(Increase by 8.8%)
	(Kurabo Tokushima Plant)	(Reduction by 22%)	(Reduction by 18.2%)
Promotion of Zero Emission	Maintenance or achievement of Zero Emission (Establishments with a high recycling rate)	16 plants	17 plants
Promotion of Zero Emission	Improvements on recycling rate (Establishments with a low recycling rate)	Over 1% improvements on FY2009 result	4.5% up
Green purchasing promotion	Entire Kurabo Group	Over 88%	91.5%
Reduction of copy paper consumption	Entire Kurabo Group	1% reduction on FY 2009 result	Increase by 1.1%

Self-evaluation:

: Significantly exceeded the target;

: Achieved the target;

: Insufficient;

: Yet to achieve the target