Using Distinctive Insulation and Anti-corrosion
Technologies to Preserve the Natural Environment

By offering such attributes as heat resistance, prevention of fluid leakage, soundproofing and anti-corrosion, the NICHIAS Group's products fulfill customers' environmental needs with respect to energy and resource conservation, safety and hygiene, and environmental preservation, helping to reduce their environmental impact at the stage where NICHIAS products are used. NICHIAS has undertaken its business activities over the years with the environment constantly in mind. Thanks to its deep involvement in the environmental field, NICHIAS has long shown itself to be an environmentally conscious company.

Basic Stance on Environmental Activities
The NICHIAS Environmental Charter and NICHIAS Environmental Action Guidelines express a dedication to the development of environmentally friendly products that conserve resources and energy, as well as NICHIAS' commitment to pursuing respectful management of the workings of nature and harmony with the global environment in all of its business activities.

NICHIAS Environmental Charter (PDF)

Environmental Management
NICHIAS has actively promoted environmental conservation activities since the 1970s, establishing an Environmental Improvement Committee when environmental issues such as soot and wastewater first began to be widely discussed. To better organize these activities, NICHIAS took steps to obtain ISO 14001 and other environmental management certifications.
As of July 2010, certification was completed or renewed at five of the Company's factories, seven domestic subsidiaries and eight overseas subsidiaries, with activities under way to obtain certification for the entire NICHIAS Group.

Environmental Performance
NICHIAS is enacting initiatives at its manufacturing sites aimed at reducing energy and resource consumption by manufacturing processes, as well as the volume of chemical substances and waste these processes generate. NICHIAS is also shifting away from the use of fuel oil at its sites in favor of city gas in an effort to help prevent global warming by reducing its carbon dioxide emissions. Deodorizing equipment, meanwhile, has been introduced to reduce the burden on the local environment stemming from manufacturing operations. Through these and other means, NICHIAS is striving to minimize the impact of its operations to achieve greater harmony with both the global and local environments.

Environmentally Conscious Activities
The urgent need to develop a recycling-oriented society today is sparking renewed calls by society to practice the "3Rs"-Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. In addition to reducing waste generated by its business sites, NICHIAS has built systems for recycling certain of the products that it sells, including calcium silicate materials, waste rockwool materials and waste ceramic fiber materials.

Environmentally Friendly Products
With "environmentally conscious manufacturing" as a key slogan, the NICHIAS Group supplies environmentally friendly products that demonstrate concern for conserving resources and energy, and generating few substances that impact the environment, at every stage of the product lifecycle.

Green Procurement
To develop products low in substances that impact the environment, NICHIAS established green procurement standards in 2005 for new purchases of raw materials and auxiliary materials. The NICHIAS Group also promotes green procurement for its existing products.