NIKKA TECHNO, INC.

We consider protection of the global environment as one of our important issues a corporation should address as important as our business philosophy like product quality improvement and cost performance. We aim to understand market demands and supply high quality products stably and promptly. We aim to comply with social rules and to contribute to societies as are “environment and safety”.

With a surge of the social interest for the global environment protection, not only the reduction of the environmental load with the production activities of the factories but also the action to the environmental consideration of product itself has become to be important as affecting the social recognition, the competition superiority of the company, and the company’s existence. Nikka Techno, Inc. considers protection of the global environment as one of our important issues corporations should address as important as our business philosophy like product quality improvement and cost performance

We make effort every day to protect the global environment with focusing the following points.

Regarding products and environment protection:

1. Reduction of CO2 emissions → energy saving activity
2. Reduction of waste → promotion of resource saving and recycling
3. Reduction of volatility organic compound (VOC) emissions → installation of VOC emission processors
4. Investigation and cleaning up of the soil and the groundwater contamination → control of organochemical
5. Promotion of environment-conscious manufacturing → application of environment-friendly techniques

Regarding products and environment protection / promotion of environment-conscious production design

Response to Fluorocarbons recovery and destruction law

Law concerning the recovery and destruction of fluorocarbons

Response to Ozone layer protection law

Law Concerning the Protection of the ozone layer through the control of specified substances and others

Response to the Directive of RoHS

EU Directive stands for "the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment".

Response to the Examination and regulation of manufacture of chemical substances law

Law concerning the examination and regulation of manufacture, etc of chemical substances

Response to the Nuclear reactor regulation law

Law concerning the regulations of nuclear material substances, nuclear fuel substances and nuclear reactors

Response to German regulation for daily necessities

Regulations for production, import and retail of daily necessities containing azo pigment that generate specified amines

Prohibition of use of the substances that are doubted to be endocrine disruptors

Dioxins, PCB, phthalates (plasticizer), alkylphenol (e.g. the materials of interfacial active agent), bis phenol A, several dozen kinds of agricultural chemicals

Prohibition of use of the substances that FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) prohibits use

Prohibition of use of the substances that are doubted to generate dioxin

Measures against VOC

Deodorization equipment

VOC means “Volatile Organic Compounds”, and WHO defines it as the general term of organic compounds that the boiling points are 50 - 260 degrees Celsius and exist as gas in the atmosphere. These involve the generation of suspended particulate matters and oxidant that are main causative substances of photochemistry air pollution.

Response to labor safety and sanitation law

The law aims to assure labors’ safety and health and also to promote the formation of comfortable working environments.