Environment

Environmental Policy

As a highly respected industry partner, the DJK Group’s goal is to contribute to the development of a highly innovative global society.

In accordance with its basic philosophy and policy on sustainability, the DJK Group will contribute to a sustainable, enriched world.
To accomplish our corporate philosophy, “Connecting People, Connecting Technology and Enriching the World,” we are committed to resolving customers’ environmental issues through our business activities by capitalizing on our engineering functions. The DJK Group aspires to always be a valued partner for its stakeholders.

• We operate an environmental management system (EMS) established based on the environmental policy and strive to continuously improve it.
• We handle products that help protect and improve the global environment and contribute to the mitigation of climate change through our business activities.
• We recognize the importance of biodiversity, as well as the importance of forests, water, and other limited resources, and strive to reflect this recognition in our business activities.
• We comply with applicable environmental laws, regulations, and accords in Japan and internationally in conducting business activities.
• We provide continuous education to help all directors, executive officers, and employees of the DJK Group deepen their understanding and awareness of environmental management.

Environmental Management System/ISO14001

System for Promoting the Environmental Management System

Since January 2004, we have operated an environmental management system (EMS) based on ISO14001 to systematically promote the reduction of environmental impact.
We have designated the Representative Director, President & CEO as the top management and the General Manager of the Administration Division as the person in charge of environmental management. Based on our environmental policy, the EMS Promotion Committee plays a central role in implementing the PDCA cycle and making continuous improvements. Through this system, we are accelerating our initiatives to address climate change in terms of both risks and opportunities.

Acquired ISO14001 Certification

We have acquired certification for ISO14001, an international standard for environmental management.

ISO14001 Certification

Responses to Climate Change

Endorsement of TCFD Recommendations

In August 2022, we declared our support for the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) recommendations. Taking the opportunity of this declaration of support, we will analyze and study the risks and opportunities to our business posed by climate change and progressively disclose information in line with the TCFD recommendations.

Efforts to Reduce Environmental Impact

Promoting Wider Use of Eco-friendly Products

Among all the types of industrial machinery we handle, we are strengthening our efforts to expand sales of products that contribute to resource recycling, resource conservation, and reduction of workload and workforce in our customers’ product manufacturing. The variety of environmentally friendly products has been increasing year by year, and in recent years, many of them have become useful for social infrastructure. The Group considers the provision of products and services to be a contribution to society through business, and will continue to expand the range of products it handles, recognizing that environmental friendliness is the most important issue in business.

Efforts toward Plant Safety

We have been working on building smart factories and conservation by making effective use of cameras, sensors, and other devices, to address social issues including the aging of plant facilities and labor shortages. We use a gas leak detection system made by KONICA MINOLTA, INC. By using the camera for gas leak inspections that were conducted in the past with gas detectors, we can easily identify the sources of leaks and check for abnormalities in high places. The system also makes it possible to visualize accumulations of gas from volatile solvents visible on job sites, which improves the work environment and prevents accidents. We will promote their introduction not only in plant facilities, but also on fuel bases, tankers, and production sites.

Contributions to Sustainable Industrial Development through LOGITO

With the aim of solving the problem of population and labor decline in the manufacturing industry, we have been developing the LOGITO brand and providing logistics automation solutions to realize automation and workforce reduction in production sites, factories, and logistics warehouses.
Engineers with a wealth of field experience select the optimum equipment from among various manufacturers all over the world and propose custom designs to realize high cost performance. We provide one-stop solutions, from factory analysis to layout proposals, equipment selection, construction, and after-sales service.
By promoting workforce reduction and labor saving at production sites, factories, and so forth, we will contribute to the sustainable development of industry in various aspects, including productivity, efficiency, and consideration for the environment.

Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM) Business

This is a mechanism used in order to quantitatively evaluate contributions of Japan to greenhouse gas emission reductions and removals which are achieved through the diffusion of, among others, leading decarbonizing technologies as well as through the implementation of measures in developing countries and others, and in order to use such contributions to achieve Japan’s nationally determined contribution (NDC).

Adopted Projects

*2: Greenhouse gas

Toward the Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

As part of the Group’s overall efforts to reduce greenhouse gas (CO₂) emissions, we have achieved virtually zero CO₂ emissions by using carbon-offset electricity at the Daiichi Jitsugyo Berries Farm, a facility owned by the Company.
The facility is experimentally producing strawberry seedlings free from diseases and pests using state-of-the-art seedling growth technology, and is leveraging electricity consumption for environmental value.
We will continue to promote a variety of initiatives to reduce CO₂ emissions and implement concrete measures to combat climate change.

Other Environmental Initiatives

For company vehicles used in Japan, the ratio of environmentally friendly vehicles, including hybrid vehicles, is over 90%.
In addition, in the office environment, we are promoting paperless meetings, and using web conferencing systems to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from business trips.
We are working to expand green procurement by prioritizing the use of Eco Mark certified and recyclable products for office consumables and environmentally friendly inks and paper materials for booklets and other publications.
We believe that the accumulation of such steady efforts can also contribute to environmental conservation, and we will continue to promote internal efforts to reduce the burden on the environment.