Clean Factories - Environmentally-Conscious Factories

• CF Accreditation System concept

To reduce the environmental impact of our manufacturing activities, we have in place our Three-Year CF Plans for individual factories. The CF Plans stipulate measures and investment strategies concerning energy conservation, the reduction of total waste arisings, reduction in chemical substances release/transfer, and effective utilization of water.
   Our Three-Year CF Plans are revised every year based on the achievements of the current year. For monitoring purposes, we collect monthly environmental performance data from our 319 factories across the world by using our own environmental information gathering system. Feedback on the analysis of the data is given to factories, business domain companies, and regional headquarters, in the form of Monthly Statement of Environmental Performance, to help them further improve and promote their CF plans and initiatives.
   To improve the environmental performance of all our factories by augmenting their efforts, we established our CF Accreditation System in fiscal 2006. Under this system, which is based on the ISO 14001 Environmental Management System, we evaluate the efforts of individual plants to reduce environmental impact, as well as assessing site-specific CF initiatives. Our global target is that at least 90% of all our factories obtain CF accreditation by fiscal 2011. Ultimately, we aspire to make every single one of our factories a Clean Factory.

[Related Data File]

• 78% of factories accredited as CFs
• Superior CFs
• Superior CFs in fiscal 2007[PanaHome Corporation’s Head Office Plant]
• Superior CFs in fiscal 2007 [Panasonic Wanbao Compressor (Guangzhou) Co., Ltd.]