We are devoting our energy to environmental preservation, aiming toward a society that is in harmony with the environment.

Toward the realisation of a society and lifestyle that exists in harmony with the environment, DENSO pursues environmental protection in all of its business fields, including research and development, manufacturing and sales and service operations.

We believe that contributing to the development of environment-friendly vehicles is DENSO's global mission as a leading supplier of automotive parts. We take the utmost effort therefore to develop new technologies that reduce the environmental burden of automobiles.

Locally, DENSO Group in Australia has a leading history of being environmentally focussed. For example, not only was Australian Automotive Air one of the first manufacturers in Australia to be certified with the internationally recognised Environmental Management System accreditation ISO14001, but it was also one of the first to release CFC-free car air-conditioners.

GLOBAL PRINCIPLES:

At DENSO Corporation, we hereby declare that we will focus the efforts of the DENSO Group on two objectives which will enable us to continue as an environmental leader in the effort to make the increasingly active recycling economy a reality, and these objectives shall be the pursuit of research and development to ensure harmony with the environment and the pursuit of sustainable environmental conservation.

Furthermore, this decision has been made in accordance with our perception that environmentally friendly corporate management will create a new corporate standard into the new century. Both DENSO EcoVision 2015 and the Third Environmental Action Plan are to be developed as five-year plans, effective until fiscal 2015.

1. We undertake to focus the efforts of the DENSO group on strengthening environmental management from a global perspective.
2. We undertake to pursue environmentally friendly development, design and production activities from a comprehensive viewpoint, encompassing every stage in a product's life cycle including production, use in the marketplace, and eventual disposal.
3. We undertake to vigorously create external alliances outside the framework of our particular fields of business, to disseminate information, and to work toward a higher degree of communication with stakeholders.

DENSO EcoVision 2015:

The Fourth Environmental Action Plan

ACTION GUIDELINES:

Strengthening of environmental management that supports consolidated management

1. Reinforcement of DENSO group's efforts to deal with environmental issues in order to ensure successful reinforcement of DENSO group's efforts to deal with environmental issues, fundamental principles and action guidelines are to be shared equally and developed jointly by all of the companies in the DENSO group.
2. Expansion of the environmental management systemIn order to further strengthen our environmental management system and make ourselves more externally accountable, we have made every effort to receive confirmation of compliance with ISO 14001, the international standard for environmental management systems. We shall, in addition, continue to ensure that each company in the DENSO group achieves ISO 14001 certification as part of our effort to further strengthen the foundations of our consolidated management structure.
3. Optimization of the organization for promotion environmental factors shall be assigned with maximum priority in terms of management issues, and in order to provide full support for this approach, the Environmental Committee organisation shall be optimised and this committee shall be effectively operated, thus providing a mechanism for consolidated and unified discussion and decision making.

Environmentally friendly development and design

1. Perfection of environmentally friendly designWe undertake to both construct and promote a design review system which - during a product's development and design stages - shall carry out advance evaluation of the environmental impact of factors such as fuel economy, exhaust-gas discharge, recycling, and substances which adversely affect the environment.
2. Promotion of environmentally friendly procurement systemAs a means of reducing the overall load that a product exerts on the environment, including all of the materials and parts which are purchased for its manufacture, we undertake to create an environmentally friendly corporate structure through partnership with suppliers, and in this, to promote a green (or environmentally friendly) procurement system which allows the purchase of materials and parts with lower environmental loads.

Clean factories through reduced environmental load

1. We undertake to further reduce the load exerted on the environment by implementing production activities focused on the conservation of raw materials, energy and the like.
2. We undertake to establish a system which both allows the setting of management targets which are more independent in nature and also enables continuous reductions in environmental load. Through said efforts, we shall endeavor to make the clean factory a reality.

Promotion of environment-related external links and dissemination of information

1. We undertake to work toward establishing additional external alliances with academic societies and administrative bodies beyond our conventional business framework. Furthermore, we shall endeavor to make valuable contributions to society through environmentally considerate product production and business operation.
2. We undertake to work vigorously both to realize efficient communication of environmental-based information to all stakeholders and to strengthen communication with the local community.