An environmental liaison committee has been established to coordinate and cooperate on environmental activities with personnel in charge of environmental issues from respective operating companies and Seiko Holdings. Under this environmental liaison committee, five sub-committees and working groups have been set up: Sub-committees on “Environmental Products,” “Packaging and Printed Materials,” “Environmental PR,” “Environmental Office Management” and “Environmental Accounting.” Members are developing activities under the policies of respective groups and periodically report and share their achievements. Furthermore, our staff are given opportunities to attend environmental seminars by external invited lecturers. Also, environmental topics are posted via the intranet to allow sharing of updated information on environmental activities at respective companies.

Each operating company is taking steps to reduce power consumption.

They promote energy conservation efforts, including using lower luminance lighting and improving existing energy facilities, as well as introducing cogeneration facilities and improving operating efficiency through the introduction of auxiliary units incorporating heat pumps. Another area is “visualization” and “energy conservation” that have been realized by implementing “GreenTALK,” an energy conservation package, and wireless network systems for saving energy, which is used to measure temperature, humidity, luminance, CO₂ emissions and power consumption.

Each operating company has quickly taken action to comply with hazardous substance regulations of respective countries. They apply their compliant product specifications as global standards and sell compliant products to other markets as well. Manufacturing companies are carrying out measurement and analysis of hazardous substances such as cadmium, lead and mercury that may be contained in products as well as investigations under the Green Purchasing standards. Regarding fluorescent X-ray analyzers used, eco-friendly types are selected that do not need liquid nitrogen, as well as those requiring significantly less measuring time.

Following the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster, Seiko EG & G Co., Ltd. has actively supported sales of products such as germanium semiconductor detectors (radiation detectors utilizing germanium semiconductors) and survey meters (devices used to measure the amount of radiation in the air and on the surfaces of target objects) so that they can provide verification of the safety of all our customers’ products.