MXI Environmental Statement
In its mission to become a
globally responsible
citizen, Memory Experts
International, Inc. has
taken it upon itself to
contribute to the
development of a sustainable
society by promoting global
environmental conservation.
The Corporate Trust:
Corporate entities should
now strive to assume
corporate social
responsibility in addition
to playing their essential
roles of increasing
corporate values and
pursuing profitability. In
terms of corporate social
responsibility, companies
are required to focus on
legal compliance, cope with
public needs, define
ambitious goals and take
positive and responsible
actions to attain those
goals, and continue to find
new added values, thereby
earning the public's trust.
We strive to promote social
responsibility-driven
management as a part of our
corporate value as well as
engage in global corporate
expansion to contribute to
the development of a
sustainable society.
Our mission must be to conserve the global environment:
The rich resources of our
planet Earth have given
birth to many forms of life
and have supported the
wide-ranging and ambitious
activities of mankind.
Nevertheless, recent
activities have exceeded the
life-sustaining abilities of
the Earth. This poses a
threat not only to our
coexistence with other forms
of life on this planet, but
also to the future of the
human race itself. Global
environmental conservation
is the most urgent issue
that the whole of mankind
faces. We must be committed
to restoring the Earth to
its full capacity, and pass
this on to future
generations. To achieve
this, we need to be more
aware of the importance of
the Earth in our personal
lives, not just in our
businesses, and strive to
continuously modify our
corporate activities and
lifestyles to reduce the
impact our society has
on the global
environment to a level that
the planet can cope with.
Continuous environmental
conservation activities
Based upon this idea, Memory
Experts International, Inc.
has for some time taken it
upon itself as a global
citizen to conduct
environmental conservation
activities on a continuous
basis with the participation
of more people. Companies
can continue an activity
only if they themselves
survive, grow, and develop.
We therefore need to gain
new economic values through
environmental conservation
activities. We define
sustainable environmental
management as the management
of a company that
contributes to environmental
conservation and generates
economic values for that
company. All Memory Experts
International, Inc.
employees are engaged in
environmental conservation
activities while pursuing
profitability based on the
concept of Memory Experts
International, Inc.'s
definition of sustainable
environmental management.
Commitment to sustainable
environmental management
through the development of
environmental technologies
and activities conducted by
all employees:
To improve sustainable
environmental management, we
have incorporated our
"environmental viewpoint"
into all aspects of our
management. Also, to limit
the environmental impact of
our corporate activities to
a level that the Earth can
deal with, we are conducting
environmental management and
improvement activities on a
daily basis. We market
environmentally-friendly
products to the public
aggressively based on the
development of
environment-related
technologies, and thus,
potentially reduce our
environmental impact
indirectly through our
customers.
Environmental conservation
activities should not be
conducted only by employees
in development and
manufacturing departments.
All our employees, including
those in business planning
and marketing, have some
impact on the natural
environment as a result of
their work. Thus Memory
Experts International, Inc.
encourages all employees to
participate in environmental
conservation activities.
Specifically, employees are
encouraged to develop and
provide environment-friendly
products and services and to
organize their workplaces to
have less impact on the
environment. These
activities are expected to
spread to business partners,
customers, and employees'
families all over the world.
With this in mind, Memory
Experts International, Inc.
is strongly supporting the
environmental conservation
activities of its employees.
Through these measures,
Memory Experts
International, Inc. is
committed to continuous
environmental conservation
activities to improve
sustainable environmental
management.
Towards a sustainable
society with a long-term
perspective
In order to limit the
environmental impact we have
on the Earth to a level that
the natural environment can
deal with, what kind of
changes should we make in
our attitudes and actions?
All global citizens,
including national and local
governments, companies,
citizen groups, and
individuals, need to be
aware of their own
environmental impact. After
understanding what needs to
be done to move closer to
the ideal, concrete goals
and action plans for
promoting sustainable
environmental management
will be established.
With the launch of the
current fiscal year's
environmental action plan
-yet another in a series of
such action plans- Memory
Experts
International, Inc. lends
its weight to a growing
community for the
development of a sustainable
society by demonstrating
through its own actions that
a company can conduct
environmental conservation
activities continuously
through sustainable
environmental management and
by encouraging more people
around the world to
participate in developing a
sustainable society.
A Recycling-based Society as
a “Requirement for Life”
Memory Experts
International, Inc.
contributes and is driven to
the development of a
sustainable society.
The 21st Century Ecology of
use; represents a
sustainable society that
re-circulates resources, the
kind of society we pursue.
The circles in the diagram
represent the partners in
that recycling-based
society. The upper route
represents the arteries of
the system, and the lower
route the veins of the
system. Resources taken from
the natural environment by
materials suppliers shown at
the upper right are
processed into products,
moving from right to left
along the upper route, and
are finally delivered to
users (customers). The
economic values of these
resources increase in the
process and are highest when
the final products are
delivered to users. The
end-of-life products move
from left to right along the
lower route. To achieve a
sustainable society that
re-circulates resources, it
is necessary to recycle
products through the inner
loops of the 21st Century
Ecology of use and promote
re-circulation that is
highly economical and causes
less environmental impact.
Partnerships among the
partners represented by the
circles are also important.
Memory Experts
International, Inc.
contributes to the
development of a
recycling-based society by
emphasizing the following
five activities.
(1) Determine and Reduce
Environmental Impact at All
Stages
(2) Priority on Inner Loop
Recycling
(3) Promoting a Multi-tiered
Recycling System
(4) More Economically
Rational Recycling
(5) Partnership at Every
Stage
Three Steps
Sustainable Environmental
Management of the Memory
Experts International, Inc.
From Passive Stage to
Proactive Stage and
Responsible Stage
To continue its efforts to
reduce environmental impact
from a long-term
perspective, Memory Experts
International, Inc. needs to
continue business and grow
as a company by promoting
sustainable environmental
management that generates
economic values through
environmental activities. In
its past environmental
conservation efforts, there
were three stages. Memory
Experts International, Inc.
first went through a Passive
Stage, and then a Proactive
Stage, and now it is moving
into the Responsible Stage
of sustainable environmental
management.
In the Passive Stage, Memory
Experts International, Inc.
coped with social pressures
by dealing with laws and
regulations and competing
with other companies. In the
Proactive Stage, however, it
began to take voluntary
actions to reduce the
environmental impact of its
business activities and
products with a sense of
mission as a global citizen.
In the current Responsible
Stage, Memory Experts
International, Inc. aims to
achieve continuous
environmental conservation
by pursuing economic values
while aggressively reducing
the environmental impact of
its business activities and
that of its business
partners.
Working towards the ideal
society
To move closer to the ideal
society, Memory Experts
International, Inc. has
improved the level of
sustainable environmental
management by developing
environmental technologies
and encouraging all
employees to participate in
environmental activities.
Each employee in the Group
is encouraged to have a
strong environmental
awareness and set higher
goals voluntarily. Memory
Experts International, Inc.
will continue to work to
realize the ideal society it
is pursuing by aggressively
developing environmental
technologies, encouraging
all employees to participate
in environmental activities,
and providing customers
around the world with
products and services with
less environmental impact.
Three Steps in Environmental
Conservation Activities
(From Passive Stage to
Proactive Stage and
Responsible Stage)
*Activities to improve
quality, control costs, and
manage delivery times
Goals and Promotion
- Year 2010 Long-Term
Environmental Goals and
Promotion -
Year 2020 Long-Term
Environmental Goals and
Promotion
Action Plan for Fiscal 2005
and Thereafter
Fiscal 2002-2004 Action Plan
and its Results
Memory Experts
International, Inc. sets
goals using absolute values
to reduce the environmental
impact of its entire
business.
Establishment of goals based
on "Environmental Corporate
Responsibility"
Looking
ahead as far as we can and
reviewing the current
situation from a point in
the future, we need to share
our vision of the ideal
society and global
environment, set target
values to realize our
ideals, and aggressively
promote environmental
conservation activities.
In fiscal 2005, Memory
Experts International, Inc.
established the Year 2010
Long-Term Environmental
Goals which state reduction
goals for "integrated
environmental impact".*
These goals cover all
environmental impact caused
in all business areas. The
Group aims to reduce
absolute values by 20% over
the figures in fiscal 2000.
The Environmental Action
Plan that forms part of the
medium-term management plans
for fiscal 2006 through 2008
was prepared based on the
Year 2010 Long-Term
Environmental Goals. Memory
Experts International, Inc.
also plans to reduce the
integrated environmental
impact by 35% over the
figures in fiscal 2005 by
the end of fiscal 2007.
*Integrated environmental
impact is obtained by
integrating all
environmental impact caused
by CO2 emissions, use of
chemical substances, etc.
Currently, Memory Experts
International, Inc. is
calculating the integrated
environmental impact using
EPS, which is an integrated
analysis method developed in
Sweden. The unit is the ELU.
The integrated analysis
method used is subject to
change as necessary.
Reduction Areas of
Environmental Impact (Eco
Balance)
Management System
ISO 14000
Zero Waste to Land Fill
WEEE
National Environmental
Performance Track
State of California WRAP
Program
We are promoting
participatory sustainable
management by all employees
based on the
Plan-Do-Check-Action (PDCA)
cycle for the entire Group,
including each business site
and division.
Memory Experts
International, Inc.
environmental management
system (EMS) is an important
tool in facilitating
sustainable environmental
management on a global
scale. Memory Experts
International as a whole,
and each of its business
sites and divisions, is
promoting participatory
sustainable environmental
management by all employees
based on the PDCA cycle.
The achievements of the
environmental action plan
prepared by each business
site are evaluated in
management reviews* using
environmental accounting.
Furthermore, based on the
Group-wide Strategic
Management by Objectives (SMO),
which takes an environmental
conservation perspective,
Memory Experts
International, Inc.
continually evaluates the
business performance of its
divisions. Sustainable
environmental management
will be further promoted by
incorporating EMS into the
business process by product.
Participatory Approach by
All Employees
Memory Experts
International, Inc. is
making an effort to improve
sustainable management based
on an "all-employee
participatory approach."
This "all-employee
participatory approach"
means that all employees in
all divisions, such as R&D,
product design, materials
procurement, manufacturing,
transportation, sales,
maintenance/services and
collection and recycling,
participate in environmental
activities. These activities
are regarded as just as
important as "QCD
activities,"* which involve
pursuing profitability. To
improve environmental
activities, internal
benchmarks and know-how are
provided to all employees
from time to time to make
them more environmentally
aware.
* QCD
means activities to improve
the management of Quality,
Cost, and Delivery.
Sustainable Environmental
Management Activities
Participated in by All
Employees
Strategic Management by
Objectives (SMO)
Memory Experts
International, Inc.
introduced SMO in 2005 to
clarify evaluation standards
for environmental
conservation activities that
are used in divisional
performance evaluations.
This system is based on the
Balanced Scorecard system, a
performance management
system developed in the
1990s in the United States
and characterized by the use
of four perspectives. Memory
Experts International, Inc.
has added a specific
environmental conservation
perspective to the system
and is promoting SMO for
global sustainable
environmental management.
Memory Experts
International, Inc SMO
Promotion of Sustainable
Environmental Management by
Sales Companies
All sales companies in
Canada, Europe, and the
Asia-Pacific region have
developed their own programs
to evaluate the performance
of sustainable environmental
management and promote these
programs based on the PDCA
cycle. European sales
companies have been
implementing the
Sustainability
Self-Assessment Program (SSAP)*
since fiscal 2005. SSAP
contains evaluation
categories that cover not
only such environmental
aspects as collection and
recycling and
energy/resource conservation
but also social
responsibility.
ISO9001 and ISO14001
Certified R&D and
Manufacturing
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