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Green Products

We will strive to ensure that our activities benefit customers who use our products, while aiming to develop Super Green (SG) products and to achieve a 25% improvement in the eco-efficiency of products by 2012.

Fiscal 2010 Targets and Results

Enhance range of super green products
Develop a total of five or more certified SG products Group-wide ⇒ Five products certified

Enhance eco-efficiency
Enhance the eco-efficiency of core products by 15% ⇒ Achieved for 10 of 18 core products

Improve the recycling ratio of specific materials
Establish materials collection systems, establish designs that make products more easily reusable, monitor materials collection results and consider numerical targets for 2011 and beyond ⇒ Established a collection system for xenon cinema lamps, implemented a collection service

Development of Environmentally Conscious Products

At USHIO, we incorporate our Environmentally Conscious Product Assessment Manual into our Design Standards so we can preevaluate the environmental impact of our products starting in the design stage. When the environmental performance of a product has been improved based on this evaluation, it is certified as an Environmentally Conscious Product. If a product is outstanding even among environmentally conscious products, and uses innovative environmental technology on a completely different level from existing products, it is certified as an SG product.

USHIO's System of Environmentally Conscious Products

Development of Super Green Products

Products eligible for certification as an SG product must be the best in their class, while offering superior environmental performance in terms of energy efficiency, extended lifetime, 3R design, materials used, applications and so forth. In addition, the product must satisfy our new USHIO environmental factor* requirement, which was established to clarify our standards following a fiscal 2009 review of certification requirements in light of recent trends in society. As of March 2011, the Group has certified five SG products, and plans to certify a furtherfive during fiscal 2011.

* Environmental factor= (Power output ratio x lifetime ratio) √{(Input ratio)2 + (3R volume ratio)2 +(Chemical substance content ratio)2}

Super Green Products Label

Implementing LCA

No matter how much CO2 emissions are reduced at factories, these activities are not meaningful if CO2 emissions increase when the manufactured products are actually used by customers. Meanwhile, products can provide both cost and environmental benefits for customers if they use energy-efficient products. Therefore, to quantitatively measure the environmental impact of products and services over the entire lifecycle, USHIO formulated LCA guidelines in 2006 and has implemented LCAs ever since. In fiscal 2009, LCAs were implemented for all major USHIO lamp products. Going forward, we will expand LCA activities to various devices in order to satisfy the needs of customers.

Initiatives Ahead

In fiscal 2011, USHIO will not only certify SG products, it will take steps to provide information about these products, and to put them into use. 1) Certification of SG products (Group total so far: 10 products) 2) Promote SG products’ systems in Group companies 3) Enhance the eco-efficiency of core products by 20% compared with fiscal 2000. 4) Make the sales contribution from environmentally conscious products visible, thereby raising awareness in each division.

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