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• 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 production activities as well as our products themselves are unintentionally affecting the global environment. We fully acknowledge this impact on the global environment and are taking actions to reduce our environmental impacts as one of the important initiatives being put into practice as part of our Murata Philosophy and establishment vision.

We will unite the efforts of our management organization, repeatedly work toward reducing our environmental impacts, and through management efficiency determine the points at which business and environmental interests converge.

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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 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.
• Through aggressive social initiatives, we will adopt environmental preservation activities in close contact with the local community and promote afforestation of corporate land according to a systematic long-term plan while working to improve the local 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.