Eco Process for Minimizing Environmental Impacts of Business and Production

The Eco Process in pursuit of environmentally conscious factory supports the Energy Approach and the Eco Products Approach under the overarching theme of Environmental Vision 2050.

Toshiba Group's target was initially a 25% reduction in energy-originated CO₂ emissions in FY2010 compared with FY1990 (based on rate to net production output). Following the achievement of a 42% reduction in FY2007, Toshiba Group revised the target for FY2010 (a 45% reduction) and has set a target for FY2012 (a 47% reduction). Although the absolute amount of 2 emissions increased by 0.25 million tons from FY2006 to 2.6 million tons, partly because of the start-up of a new fab at Yokkaichi Operations (Japan), introduction of state-of-the-art facility has resulted in a high energy-saving rate.

Toshiba Group will promote investment in energy saving, pursuit of energy-saving clean rooms, and innovation in production processes to curb CO₂ emissions.