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Message from the Top Management
The ratio of Anritsu products sold outside Japan has
been rising year after year and 50% of our products were used by customers
outside Japan in 2005. The ratio is forecasted to rise further in the
future. Anritsu has R&D and manufacturing sites in the United States, the
United Kingdom, Denmark and France. Under the circumstances, it is an
important issue for management to conduct environmental management globally.
As a first step toward this objective, we called for the Global Environment
Management Meeting in the fall of 2005 to enlighten participants and instill
Anritsu Group's environment philosophy into the members of the Group. As
organs of the Global Environment Management Meeting, we at Anritsu Group
established the Global WEEE Meeting and the Global RoHS Meeting to cope with
EU directives most effectively.
These meetings are globally promoting compliance with the WEEE Directive
for collection and recycling of wastes which was enacted in August 2005 and
the RoHS Directive on the content of hazardous substances in products to be
enacted in the summer of 2006. At present, measuring instruments and
checkweighers - major Anritsu products - are not subject to the RoHS
Directive. However, we consider it our corporate social responsibility not
to use hazardous substances in our products and it is one of our major
environment management priorities to promote on a global basis the
development of products that do not use such substances.
In Japan, we have established an environment management system
encompassing all Group Companies to promote environment management.
Particularly in 2005, we made efforts to achieve the objectives of
countering global warming, cutting wastes, reducing environmental risks and
developing environmentally friendly products to lessen the burden on the
environment.
As for the efforts to counter global warming, the Anritsu Group participated
in Team Minus 6%, a national project advocated by the Ministry of the
Environment in order to attain the rate of reduction of C02 discharge volume
promised by the Japanese government under the Kyoto Protocol, and rigorously
controlled air conditioning temperature settings in summer and winter. As a
result, energy consumption in summer dropped 8% from the year 2004 and
leveled off in winter despite unusually cold weather. We will continue to
take measures to help prevent global warming and at the same time try to
reduce the environmental load by diminishing environmental risks and
slashing use of resources.
Outside Japan, our production site Anritsu Ltd. in the United Kingdom set up
an environment management system and obtained the ISO14001 certificate, but
the other overseas production sites have yet to build such systems. These
sites will also establish an environmental management system during fiscal
2007 and reduce the environmental burden, by setting objectives.
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Koichiro Takahashi
Vice President
General Manager
of Environmental Promotion Center
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