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Minebea strives to contribute to higher quality, more comfortable lifestyles by providing truly valuable products and services. At the same time, the Company works to minimize the environmental burden of its various activities and promote greater harmony, thereby contributing to the preservation and improvement of a healthy environment.
Environmental Policy
1. Development/Design
Minebea shall focus on the development and design of products that contain no chemical substances harmful to the environment or the health and safety of humans, consume little energy and satisfy the "3R" criteria, that is, can be "reduced," "reused" or "recycled".
2.Manufacturing
Minebea shall set targets and restructure and revise its manufacturing procedures by using materials that contain no chemical substances harmful to the environment or the health and safety of humans, thereby improving yield, reducing waste output and lowering energy consumption.
3.Distribution
Minebea shall employ packaging materials that contain no chemical substances harmful to the environment or the health and safely of humans and satisfy the "3R" criteria, as well as procedures that lower energy consumption and prevent the release of harmful substances.
4.Cooperation with Authorities and Local Public Entities
When coordinating manufacturing and/or distribution activities in other countries, Minebea shall observe environment-related rules and regulations imposed by local atuhorities and support environmental protection efforts of local communities. At the same time, Minebea shall take a proactive approach to sharing new environmental protection technologies.
5.Overseas Activities
In its manufacturing and distribution activities overseas, Minebea shall observe environment-related protection rules and regulations imposed by local authorities and do its best to preserve the environment in adjacent areas. Minebea shall also be an aggressive supplier of new environmental protection technologies.
6.Environmental Audits
Minebea shall conduct periodical environmental audits at all of its production and other facilities with the aim of ensuring the effective implementation of its environmental management system and improving the system as necessary.
7.Employee Education
Minebea shall require employees to attend related courses to encourage their involvement in environmental protection activities in the workplace and at home.
8.Observe Minebea's Environmental Policy
All Minebea Group employees and other individual working at our sites shall adhere to Minebea's Environmental Policy. If any individual has an environment-related concem, he or she shall report it promptly to his or her manager, who shall respond prompty.
Note: We share the common environmental policies of the Minebea Group.
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