Electric Home Appliance Recycling Activity

For the promotion of recycling of the used electric home appliances (air conditioners, CRT/LCD/ Plasma TVs, refrigerators, freezers, washing machines, cloth driers), the "Electric Home Appliance Recycling Law" was enforced in April, 2001, and all the manufacturers were obliged to make recycling disposal of the used electric home appliances.

Under the circumstances, our company established a recycling disposal company, "Fuji Ecocycle Ltd." in Fujinomiya City, Shizuoka Prefecture and started operation in 2001 and then, constructed a new factory in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture starting operating in April, 2010 to strengthen the disposal capacity.

Furthermore, we are promoting "closed recycling" of resources such as recycling the PP material (polypropylene) collected from the used washing machines into resources at Fuji Ecocycle and adopting them for the parts of our company's air conditioners. In FY2010, we used 171 tons, 160% up from the previous year.

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• Resource recycling

-Realized the industry's top class product recycling rate by complete manual disassembly and enhancing the accuracy of crushing and sorting.

• Environmental consideration for factory vicinity

-Enhancing the sound insulation and minimizing the noise

-Disposal method without using water (No waste water generated)