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Nikon group is promoting a programme of green procurement, which features a host of activities geared toward reducing the environmental impact of our products.
Green procurement activities can not be achieved without cooperation by business partners. Nikon Group held briefing sessions for its business partners to deepen their understandings about our Green Procurement Standards, and requires them to enter into "Nikon Green Procurement Declaration". In the year ended March 2007, we held briefing sessions for the business partners of Nikon Corporation and Nikon Group Companies in Japan and abroad, accelerating to enter into the Agreement with them one by one.
Nikon Group has established the "Green Procurement Analysis & Promotion Conference" and launched monthly activities for enlightenment on analysis techniques and knowledge to employees in charge. Its vigorous activities using the evaluation results of Nikon products as learning tools enable the persons responsible for the green procurement analysis of each department to deepen their understanding about analysis equipment and methods.
Focusing on the Nikon Companies manufacturing the products containing the substances defined by the RoHS Directive established by EU in July 2006, hazardous chemical substance inspection of products/materials procured, screening of them using fluorescent X-ray analysis, alternative technologies and switching to substitute products and materials were completed so far. The comprehensive survey of metal materials, paints and bonding agents commonly used by these companies was also carried out. The data from these surveys/inspections are accessible via intranet within the Nikon Group. According to the Nikon Environmental Action Plan, we have set out the targets even for the products that do not contain the substances defined by the RoHS Directive, and actively promoted environmental activities.
Moreover, all manufacturing departments of Nikon Group have completed the responses to "Administrative Measure on the Control of Pollution Caused by Electronic Information Product (Chinese RoHS)" enforced in China in March 2007.
Rate of green purchasing
In June 2006, we revised the "Nikon Group Green Purchasing Implementation Guidelines" for certain sorts of office supplies and equipment/machinery to strengthen our green purchasing activities.
Our rate of green purchasing was 94% in the year ended March 2008: 93%, 94%, 94% and 94% of the rate were achieved in the first, second, third and forth quarters, respectively.
The same kinds of activities are also promoted throughout all Nikon Group Companies.