Environmental Management

The Environmental Management Committee convenes every three months. The executive officer in charge of the environment chairs the meeting, which is attended by the president, executive officers, general managers of our business departments, and representatives of our major group manufacturing companies. The committee serves as a forum for deliberations related to groupwide environmental conservation activities, covering our responses to climate change and other issues raised in the Environmental Division’s monthly meetings with regional environmental managers.

Our environmental conservation activities are conducted in accordance with the ISO 14001 environmental management systems.

Nippon Electric Glass Co., Ltd. (four business sites in Japan) and its Group companies in Japan and overseas seek to continually improve the organization’s environmental performance by applying the ISO 14001 environmental management systems with a PDCA (Plan, Do, Check, Action) cycle to its manufacturing activities. Our environmental activities follow the recommendation of the International Organization for Standardization, and we upgraded to ISO 14001:2015 certification in fiscal 2017 and ISO 14001/Amendment 1 certification in fiscal 2024. At the end of January 2025, we had obtained ISO 14001 certification for 88.9% of our sites, including our four domestic business sites and domestic and overseas manufacturing subsidiaries.

In fiscal 2024, we met 38 of the 43 environmental targets set for four plants in Japan. For fiscal 2025, we aim to further reduce CO2 emissions, energy use, and resource consumption through 42 new targets directly related to our core operations.

We consider all employees integral to our environmental efforts and provide comprehensive training on environmental management. This includes skill development for employees, internal auditors, and evaluators of environmental management.

In fiscal 2024, we held advanced training sessions for internal auditors and offered training for 20 employees with the goal of preparing them to become new internal auditors.