Environmental issues are global and affects future generations of human beings and ultimately their survival. It is each of our major responsibilities to preserve the Earth and pass a sound environment to future generations.
To fulfil the responsibility, INNOTECH takes active measures to protect global environment and pursues corporate activities, keeping harmony between its economic activities and preservation of global environment.
Policy for Environment
INNOTECH is an electronic company which engages in technology development for software, semiconductor test equipment and electronic components. INNOTECH is committed to have all of its employees recognize the impact on environment as the company pursue its business and take active roles in protecting global environment in its business area.
INNOTECH, as part of its activities based on the Basic Policy for Environment,is working hard on establishing the environmental management system which supports the ISO14001 standards, its compliance with applicable environment-related laws and regulations, sales and promotion of environment-friendly products, and enhancement of entire employees’ awareness on environmental preservation.
INNOTECH was certified for the environmental management system, ISO14000 in 2003 and has been working on reduction of paper, power and wastes. In 2011, INNOTECH has decided to utilize the same certification body for the environment management system (ISO14001) and quality management system (ISO9001) and INNOTECH took the opportunity to switch the environmental objectives to objectives which have indirect impact per each business unit, such as expansion of sales of environment-friendly products and since, INNOTECH has been active in the area. As for paper and power consumptions as well as generation of wastes, INNOTECH makes constant effort, such as measuring and monitoring the amount of such consumptions and wastes so that such amount will not exceed the amount of the year before.
INNOTECH provides education programs on its company-wide environmental policies and measures for environment
as part of its employee training programs for new graduates and those who are hired by mid-career recruitment.
Also, for employees who work in the organization which administers ISO-related matters, INNOTECH provides
seminars and alike on important subjects, such as changes in laws and regulations, so that such employees
renew their knowledge and brush up their expertise. Furthermore, INNOTECH takes measures to continuously
enhance the employee awareness on the environmental matters, such as providing updates on the ISO bulletin
board on the company intranet and sharing relevant information at the Communication Meetings.
●Education Program on Environment for new graduates and mid-career new employees;
●Content shared at Communication Meetings
INNOTECH headquarter building includes various environmental measures from its original design and construction in 1998. Furthermore, as part of INNOTECH environmental management efforts undertaken since 2017, all the lighting systems in the INNOTECH building were replaced by low-power LEDs, thus its annual power consumption has been reduced by 35 percent compared to similar-sized office buildings.
Such achievements were recognized by the Japan Electric Association, Kanto Branch, and INNOTECH was awarded the Grand Prize of the year 2017 by the Electricity Usage Rationalization Committee for Kanto District of the Association.
Resource-saving Measures and Recycling
INNOTECH is working hard to go paperless, such as digitizing various forms and reports, distributing meeting
materials electronically prior to the meetings and sharing such materials utilizing tablets, taking
statistics
of monthly total numbers of copies and printing materials and publishing such numbers inside the company to
increase employees awareness and to motivate them to make further progress on going paperless.
Also, all the waste generated by INNOTECH Group during its course of business activities are appropriately
separated and disposed in compliance with the relevant laws and regulations and each Group company is
working
on its reduction.
In Kanagawa Prefecture, where INNOTECH headquarter is located, a feasibility study for a so-called upcycling is conducted, utilizing “LIMEX” which is new material mainly made of limestone without using almost any water nor wood and turned into alternatives of paper and plastic. The word “upcycling” means to turn used materials to higher value-added materials than the original materials, while recycling means turning the used materials back to reusable materials (often with lower quality than original materials).
INNOTECH supports the upcycling efforts and participates as one of the partner companies in the “Kanagawa Upcycle Consortium”, which promotes the upcycling models proposed by Kanagawa Prefecture.
INNOTECH utilizes LIMEX for its company brochures and we save 4.1 trees and 20,500 litters of water per 1,000 copies of our company brochures.
Related Link:
Kanagawa Upcycle Consortium
https://www.pref.kanagawa.jp/docs/bs5/upcycle.html
(written
in Japanese only)
https://upcycle-consortium.com
(written in Japanese only)
Energy and Water
INNOTECH business model does not require massive utilization of energy and water to maintain its facility as it outsources its manufacturing and utilizes cloud for its data storage.
In addition, INNOTECH has set up solar panels on the rooftop of its headquarter building to utilize renewable energy. Part of power consumed by the building is supplied by the power generated in-house by these solar panels.
Power consumption of INNOTECH headquarter portion as well as the common area of INNOTECH building is 2,156,402kWh in 2023 （2,133,250kWh in 2022）and water consumption was 50,259㎥ in 2023 (46,592㎥ in 2022).