Resource Conservation in Factories

Panasonic is globally committed to reducing its water consumption in response to serious water shortages across the world. In fiscal 2009, we achieved a 48% reduction against the target of an 8% reduction in water consumption per basic unit^*1 from the fiscal 2001 level. Globally, we reduced our water consumption by 12% from the fiscal 2008 level. Because we have thus achieved a reduction far beyond the target for fiscal 2011, we have newly set a target per basic unit^*2 without price adjustment. We will strive to achieve 22% and 24% reduction in fiscal 2010 and fiscal 2011, respectively.

In particular for China, where people are facing serious water shortages, we have added effective use of water resources to the criteria of the CF Accreditation System, thereby steadily reducing our water consumption in the country. At our factories where measures were implemented under the China Eco Project, water consumption per unit of production^*3 in fiscal 2009 decreased by 5.1% on average from the fiscal 2008 level, while our global reduction rate was 2.7%. We set a reduction target designed to regional characteristics and continuously reduce an amount of water consumption.

• *1 Water consumption/(consolidated sales/Bank of Japan´s corporate goods price index [electrical machinery and equipment])
• *2 Water consumption/consolidated sales (result for fiscal 2009 calculated using this formula: 20% reduction from the fiscal 2001 level)
• *3 Water consumption/unit of production