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• Concept
• Action Guidelines

Concept

In the desire to contribute toward a truly rich human society, we develop materials and products, devise and maintain production activities, and supply products worldwide.

However, we cannot deny that our business activities as well as our products themselves unintentionally affect the global environment and consequently have some impact even on biodiversity.

We take this impact seriously and work throughout our organization to reduce our environmental burden as one of the important ways in which we practice the Murata Philosophy, the vision under which we were founded.

Action Guidelines

• Not restricting ourselves merely to the observance of environmental laws and regulations, we will establish a voluntary management standard and strive to improve our management standards for environmental protection.
• We will strive to reduce the environmental impacts of our products.
  • 2-1. In our R&D and design activities, we will consider approaches that will minimize the environmental impact of our products.
  • 2-2. In cases where a product contains an environmentally hazardous substance, we will seek ways to reduce the amount used or incorporate a more benign substitute.
  • 2-3. In an effort to minimize the amount of packaging materials used with our products, we will adopt a ”reduce, reuse and recycle” policy.
  • 2-4. We will promote eco-friendly products.
  • 2-5. We will develop procurement activities through which we will select materials that have minimal direct or indirect environmental impacts.
• We will strive to reduce the environmental impacts of our business operations.
  • 3-1. To help prevent global warming, we will implement energy conservation and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
  • 3-2. Where production processes make use of environmentally hazardous substances, we will seek ways to reduce the amounts used or incorporate more benign substitutes.
  • 3-3. We will aggressively seek to reduce, reuse and recycle wastes, and seek to minimize the amount of waste produced and conserve resources.
• We will actively engage in environmental and social contribution initiatives that are closely connected to local communities.
• We will work to protect biodiversity.
• 5-1. We will advance our forest protection initiatives known as "Murata Forest."
• 5-2. We will promote greenery around our workplaces following a long-term vision of coexistence with the surrounding environment.
• While making all employees aware of the environmental policy, we will strive to raise employee awareness of higher environmental ethics. Moreover, we will develop timely and appropriate educational as well as public relations activities.
• We will strive to become a corporation focused on environmental management and active public disclosure of our achievements in this area.
• To implement each of the above action guidelines, we will establish and adopt our environmental action plan while continuously striving to improve our environmental performance.