Resource-saving efforts represent a key component of global environment conservation. In addition to reducing materials used for our products, we can implement various measures to control the use of resources in day-to-day business. Currently, I am advocating the use of Century Gothic to reduce ink use for printing. According to research, you can reduce ink use by about 30% using Century Gothic in place of Arial. I will encourage coworkers across the company to adopt this small effort to raise their overall environmental awareness.
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Eco Management, Eco Mind
Developing corporate environmental management groupwide, Anritsu further advances its activities toward the creation of Eco-Offices, Eco-Factories and Eco-Products with Eco-Minded Employees.
The Anritsu Group’s Environmental Principle
Anritsu strives to give due consideration to the environment in both the development and manufacture of our products. Through sincerity, harmony and enthusiasm we will endeavor to foster a prosperous society at one with nature.
*The articles in "Preserving the Global Environment" cover Anritsu Corp. and the following Group Companies:
Group Companies in Japan: Anritsu Industrial Solutions Co., Ltd., Tohoku Anritsu Co., Ltd., Anritsu Customer Services Co., Ltd., Anritsu Devices Co., Ltd., Anritsu Networks Co., Ltd., Anritsu Precision Co., Ltd., Anritsu Engineering Co., Ltd., Anritsu Kousan Co., Ltd., Anritsu Techmac Co., Ltd. and Anritsu Pro Associe Co., Ltd.;
Group Companies outside Japan:
Anritsu Company (USA), Anritsu Ltd. (UK) and Anritsu A/S (Denmark)
Environmental Management Promotion System
In response to increasing demand for global efforts, including responses to the European RoHS directive and the environmental expectations of customers, we reviewed our environmental management promotion system in fiscal 2005 and set up a Global Environment Management Meeting to deliberate and decide on environment-related matters. The Meeting acts as a superagency over the WEEE and RoHS meetings set up in 2003. In Japan, the Environment Management, Product Assessment and RoHS Steering Committees promote the environmental management system, the development of environmentally conscious products and the elimination of harmful substances in products, respectively.
» Environmental Management Organization (Japan)
The environmental management organization of the Anritsu Group in Japan is led by the director of environmental management (executive officer of Anritsu Corporation and head of the Environmental Promotion Center) and promotes environmental management activities.
» Environmental Management Systems
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Anritsu Corporation
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Address：490 Jarvis Drive |
» Environmental Audit (Japan)
On-site patrol during an NEC partner companies’ mutual environmental audit
In fiscal 2009, Anritsu underwent a regular audit by an ISO14001 certification body without any indication of nonconformance. In addition, we carried out two internal environmental audits checking the conformance and effectiveness of our environmental management system and environmental performance in June and compliance status in November. There were 38 and 11 indications, respectively. We share and improve common issues of the Group through the Environment Management Committee. Furthermore, the Atsugi site underwent an NEC partner companies’ mutual environmental audit that was carried out from a different perspective (environmental management perspective) from that of the certification body. We will work to develop an efficient environmental management system by resolving the issues found in these audits.
Survey on Environmental Consciousness of Employee
To measure the degree to which we share Eco-Mind awareness, we conducted the Fourth environmental awareness survey covering all employees of Anritsu Group companies in Japan. We designed the questionnaire to check respondents' understanding of environmental terminology and actions related to environmental issues. Using these results, we analyzed how the respondents' degree of environmental awareness correlates to their relevant actions and compares with the previous results. The proportion of the Eco-Excellence group characterized by advanced environmental knowledge and environmentally friendly behavior increased to 31% from 26% of 2008. We will implement training to raise the response rate for the next survey and the number of Eco-Excellence employees.
