800 Environmental business Items 2002.04.15

In line with the expansion of global incentives such as the Kyoto mechanism for reducing greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, environmental policy and institutional incentives in Japan, and social incentives for each company's environmental management system. The items of the environmental business have increased rapidly recently. That number roughly 800. The environmental business is an economic incentive for the continuous improvement of environmental impacts in various fields, and promotes the improvement activities by the economic effect. In other words, it is a business that provides products and services that contribute to improvement activities, and is a business that promotes new industries and new jobs.

As a factor in the commercialization of the environmental business of each company, the method of developing the product (equipment and goods) and the service by taking advantage of the company's specialty first, and another is a method of changing the existing product and the service of the company to the environment consideration type. For example appliances. Environmental Conscious products = based on the concept of environmentally conscious product, we have adopted the method of LCA, quantitative evaluation of environmental impact such as energy saving and resource saving, and evaluation of demolition and recyclability, etc. We are trying to improve the environmental efficiency and environmental performance of our products.

The idea of eco-design and the advancement of environmental consideration in such a design stage can expect the market share of the domestic maker to be greatly expected when the prospect of green of the world market in the future. Business items will continue to grow in the environment. Incentives for businesses based on the new values of the environment, such as the creation of new public works related to the legislation of the Nature Regeneration Promotion Act and the development of the infrastructure of a recycling-oriented society, are occurring one after another. The big wave in the age of environmental business is coming.