Unipres : Environment［P14-32］(1.8MB)

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Environmental Management

Basic Approach and Policy

Guided by our Environmental Policy, we will comply with environmental laws and regulations, and build, maintain, and continuously improve our environmental management system.

In addition to ensuring safety when developing products, we will strive to minimize their impact on the environment by reducing environmentally hazardous substances and conserving resources and energy.

Various environmental regulations have been put in place to ensure our society is sustainable. This has prompted Unipres to set out the fundamental thinking behind all its activities in the form of its Environmental Policy, which forms the basis for our efforts to preserve the environment.

Based on our management philosophy of "Achieve Sustainability Management," Unipres

Corporation contributes to global environmental preservation from an international perspective by providing environmentally friendly and safe products through our excellence in press technologies.

To pass down a beautiful and rich earth to the next generation,

Unipres promotes the following activities:

1. We comply with environmental laws and regulations as well as other requirements to which our company agrees, and we work to protect the environment.
2. We endeavor to curb greenhouse gas emissions by bringing together materials, dies, equipment, and products on an entirely new plane.
3. We strive to prevent pollution of the air, water, and soil by reducing and limiting our use of environmentally hazardous substances (including harmful chemicals).
4. We endeavor to curb our use of mineral and water resources and our production of waste by conserving energy and resources, as well as reusing and recycling.
5. We collaborate with local communities and society at large to help preserve biodiversity and ecosystems.
6. We seek to maintain and upgrade our environmental management system by making ongoing improvements.

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Promotion System

The Sustainability Committee, under the supervision of the Board of Directors, discusses and determines environmental policies, targets, and action plans, including climate change countermeasures, and the Environment Committee, established under the Sustainability Committee, promotes initiatives and regularly conducts quarterly progress checks.

The Environment Committee, consisting of the executive officers and environmental managers of each district, meets four times a year. The Committee is chaired by the Executive Officer in charge of general affairs.

In addition, we have established the Carbon Neutral Working Group and the ISO 14001 Working Group under the Environment Committee. The Carbon Neutral Working Group grasps the actual situation within the company, examines energy conversion, and studies initiatives to reduce CO2 emissions, in order to achieve carbon neutrality. The ISO 14001 Working Group promotes efforts to maintain and operate environmental management systems and to resolve environmental issues.

Environmental Management System

Since 2004 the Unipres Group has been working to earn certifications under the ISO 14001 international standards for environmental management systems. We are operating our environmental management system and pursuing measures to reduce the impact on the environment of our corporate activities.

<_fy20223a_ iso="" 14001="" certification="">> Of all the business sites of the Unipres Group, 78.3% are certified.

* Based on the number of production sites

(Domestic: 100% Overseas: 61.5%)

●Fuji Plant (Fuji, Fujinomiya)

●Tool & Die Plant

●Tochigi Plant (Moka, Oyama)

Domestic●Unipres Kyushu Corporation

●Unipres Mold Corporation:

Fuji Plant, Hiroshima Plant, Moka Plant

●Unipres Precision Corporation

●Unipres Southeast U.S.A., Inc. ●Unipres Mexicana, S.A. de C.V.: Manufacturing plant for auto body parts, Manufacturing plant for transmission parts

Overseas●Unipres (UK) Limited ●Unipres Guangzhou Corporation

●Unipres Zhengzhou Corporation

●Unipres Precision Guangzhou Corporation●Unipres India Private Limited

*The percentage of certification status has been corrected due to calculation errors.

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Climate Change Countermeasures

Basic Approach

The Unipres Group recognizes and supports the importance of the "The Paris Agreement" and various other agreements on global warming countermeasures. We support the Japanese government's move toward decarbonization, and we comply with the country's climate change-related laws and regulations, such as Act on the Rational Use of Energy and the Law Concerning the Promotion of Measures to Cope with Global Warming, and submit annual reports to the government on our energy consumption, progress in achieving energy conservation targets, and greenhouse gas emissions. And, in June 2021,

efforts toward carbon neutrality by JAPIA, and actively participating in seminars on carbon neutrality.

The Unipres Group has identified "climate change countermeasures" as one of its material issues and is working throughout the Group to mitigate the effects of climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, which are considered the main cause of climate change. Specifically, we will introduce high-efficiency equipment, review production methods, and introduce renewable energy.

If the position of an industry association is significantly more retardant than or inconsistent with our Group's environmental policy or carbon neutrality goals, we will talk to the association and, in the unlikely event of a discrepancy, will give priority to our own position.

Online link：-Supporterslist of TCFD -JapanClimate Initiative (JCI) -TheEnvironmental Voluntary Action Plan provided by the

Japan Auto Parts Industries

Association (in Japanese)

Unipres expressed its support for the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). We are part of Japan Climate Initiative (JCI), which is a broad network of companies and organizations actively working to stop climate change. We also set targets for reductions in greenhouse gases, using as a reference the Environmental Voluntary Action Plan provided by the Japan Auto Parts Industries Association(JAPIA), an industry group to which we belong. Now, We are making efforts to collect information by answering a questionnaire on our company's

■ Response to TCFD Recommendations

Unipres has expressed its support for the TCFD and issued a TCFD report in June 2023 summarizing the disclosure items recommended by the TCFD.

By promoting information disclosure based on the TCFD recommendations, we will build a sustainable management foundation including a trust relationship with stakeholders.

Online link：TCFD Report

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Targets and Results	(✓: 90% or more △: Less than 90% ✗: Less than 50%)
Medium- and Long-term Targets	FY2022 Targets	Results	Level of
Achievement
30% reduction in CO2 emissions from our business	10% reduction in CO₂ emissions (relative to FY2018)	▲36.0%	✓
activities in FY2030 (relative to FY2018)	*Scope1・2
	Ratio of green purchases：41.6% or more	39.2%	△

[Unipres Corporation/UNIPRES R & D Co., Ltd.]

Reduction of 82.4t- CO2 or more in distribution		▲93.7ｔ-CO2		✓

[Unipres Corporation/Unipres R & D Co., Ltd./ Unipres Kyushu

Corporation/Unipres Mold Corporation/Unipres Precision

Corporation]

<Setting goals to achieve carbon neutrality>

The Unipres Group set new CO2 emission reduction targets to achieve carbon neutrality.

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Performance reporting and initiatives

■Production Efforts

[Global Energy Use]

Our energy use across the globe in FY2022 dropped 4.8 percent from FY2021. The main reason for the decrease was lower capacity utilization in the Chinese region due to recurrent of COVID-19.

[MWh]
600,000
					Purchased electricity			Thermal			Fuel
400,000		374,105
						303,287			298,328				315,578	300,566
200,000
0
				FY2018		FY2019	FY2020	FY2021		FY2022
																							Unit [MWh]
						FY2018	FY2019	FY2020		FY2021		FY2022
Total use				374,105	303,287	298,328		315,578	300,566
	Purchased		269,564	234,999	206,583		208,085	202,019
	electricity
	Thermal						485	592	608		594	591
	Fuel				104,056	67,696	91,137		106,899	97,956

Unipres Corporation and its consolidated subsidiaries in Japan and overseas

• The data for FY2018 and FY2021 have been revised from the Unipres Sustainability Report 2022.
• Unipres Kyushu (Tobata area), Unipres North America, and Unipres Thailand were added to the scope of tabulation in FY2021, and Unipres Wuhan was added in FY2022.

[Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions]

Our greenhouse gas emissions across the globe in FY2022 dropped

7.2 percent from FY2021. The main reasons for the decrease were due to lower capacity utilization affected by COVID-19 and a revised CO2 emission factor per unit of purchased electricity.

[t-CO₂]

200,000 182,224

150,000			148,723
			122,278	125,032	116,633
100,000
50,000
0
	FY2018	FY2019	FY2020		FY2021		FY2022
												Unit [t-CO2]
				FY2018		FY2019		FY2020	FY2021	FY2022
Total emissions	182,224		148,723			122,278	125,032	116,633
	Scope 1	22,775		14,412			21,792		23,078	20,431
	Scope 2	159,449		134,311			100,486	101,955	96,201

Unipres Corporation and its consolidated subsidiaries in Japan and overseas

• Data for FY2021 for energy-derived CO2 in the scope of Unipres Corporation and Unipres R & D Co., Ltd. has been verified by the third party (SGS Japan Inc. ) (see page79 for details).
• The data for FY2018 and FY2021 have been revised from the Unipres Sustainability Report 2022.
• Unipres Kyushu (Tobata area), Unipres North America, and Unipres Thailand were added to the scope of tabulation in FY2021, and Unipres Wuhan was added in FY2022.
• PFCs and SF6 are not emitted from Unipres' operations.

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