KUBOTA Worldwide
Medium-Term Environmental
Conservation Targets
The KUBOTA Group has created new medium-term targets for environmental
conservation through FY2016.
The Group systematically advances environmental conservation activities
at the production and product development stages.
| Issues | Actions | Management Indicators*2 | Scope | Base FY |
Targets FY2016 |
Results FY2015 |
*6 Self- evaluation |
Achievement Status |
| Stopping climate change | Reduce CO2 | CO2 emissions per unit of production*3 | Global Production | 2009 | -14% | -26.0% |  |
We are making progress on energy conservation in production facilities, air handling systems and lighting, etc. |
| Energy conservation | Energy use per unit of production | Global Production | 2009 | -14% | -23.4% | |
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| Working towards a recycling based society | Reduce waste | Waste discharge per unit of production | Global Production | 2009 | -14% | -30.6% | |
We are making progress on waste separation and introduction of returnable containers. |
| Recycling ratio*4 | Production sites in Japan | － | 99.5% or above | 99.8% |  |
We are maintaining a resource recycling ratio above the target. | ||
| Overseas produciton sites | － | 90.0% or above | 89.8% |  |
Landfill disposal was reduced as the result of changing contractor consignment. We are now very close to achieving our target. | |||
| Conserve water resouce | Water consumption per unit of production | Global production | 2009 | -21% | -39.1% | |
We are making progress on water conservation by the installation of waste water recycling facilities. | |
| Controlling chemical substances | Reduction of VOCs*1 | VOC emissions per unit of production | Global Production | 2009 | -21% | -29.4% | |
We are making progress on VOC reduction by improving coating efficiency and use of non-VOC paints. |
| Improve environmental performance of products | Expand line of Eco-Prodeucts | Sales ratio of Eco-Products*5 | Global | － | 40% | 36.6% | |
n FY2015, we certified 43 products as Eco-Products. |
| *1 | VOCs comprise the six VOCs that are most prevalent in emissions from the KUBOTA Group: xylene, toluene, ethylbenzene, styrene, 1, 2, 4-trimethylbenzene, and 1, 3, 5-trimethylbenzene. |
| *2 | The figures per unit of production represent the intensity of the environmental load per unit of production money amount. The exchange rate of the base fi scal year is used when translating the production value of overseas sites into yen. |
| *3 | CO2 emissions include greenhouse gases from non-energy sources. We use the emissions coefficient for electricity of the base fi scal year in our calculation of CO2 emissions from energy sources.; |
| *4 | Resource recycling ratio (%) = (Sales volume of valuable resources + External recycling volume) / (Sales volume of valuable resources + External recycling volume + Landfi ll disposal) × 100. Heat recovery is included in external recycling volume. |
| *5 | Sales ratio of Eco-Products (%) = Sales of Eco-Products / Sales of products (excluding construction work, services, software, parts and accessories) × 100 |
| *6 | Self-evaluation rating symbols:  Target exceeded (by at least 20%)  Target reached  Target not yet reached. |
