Konica Minolta’s Excellent Green Factory Certification System will involve its suppliers, customers and communities in its efforts to reduce CO2 emissions and achieve Excellent Green Factory certification standards at all of its major production sites around the world by fiscal 2018.
Under its original Green Factory Certification System, Konica Minolta attained its goal of achieving Level 2 at all of its production sites around the world by fiscal 2015.
The Excellent Green Factory Certification System is being launched as the next step to achieve higher goals.
In addition to complying with the conventional certification standards for reducing environmental impacts from internal sources, the new system is designed to meet the standards for reducing CO2 emissions from external sources by working in unison with suppliers, customers and communities.
As an ultimate goal, Konica Minolta aims to achieve the standards for Sustainable Green Factory certification by sharing its environmental technologies and know-how with external stakeholders to reduce CO2 emissions from external sources by an amount which equals CO2 emissions from internal sources.
According to the Excellent Green Factory Certification System, a production site that has met all the following criteria is certified as an Excellent Green Factory.
From external sources: reduce CO2 emissions from suppliers, customers and communities by an amount which equals 10% of CO2emissions from Konica Minolta’s internal sources.
From internal sources: reduce CO2 emissions (per unit of production) by 6% from the fiscal 2015 level; reduce waste discharged externally (per unit of production) by 6% from the fiscal 2015 level; reduce water consumption (per unit of production) by 6% from the fiscal 2015 level.
Certification as Sustainable Green Factory requires reducing CO2 emissions from external sources by an amount which equals CO2 emissions from internal sources.
