Environment

To address global warming and achieve its target of a reduction in CO₂ emissions of 20 million tons by 2020 over the 2005 level, the Fujifilm Group is developing products and services with outstanding CO₂ reduction effects using innovative technologies. These products, including data archiving onto high-capacity magnetic tape using barium-ferrite (BaFe) magnetic media developed by Fujifilm, and SYNAPSE, its IT solution for medical clinics and multifunction devices that boost convenience while reducing energy consumption, have led to reduced CO₂ emissions while in use at our customers. Fujifilm is engaged in increasing the visibility of its contribution to reducing CO₂ emissions based on its internal guidelines, defining the relationships between the types of products and services that contribute a high level of contribution and the scale of that contribution.

In addition, activities are underway to promote greater awareness of CO₂ emissions reductions by adding carbon offset to products, in addition to the energy-saving effect. At the Carbon Offset Awards organized by the Carbon Offset Network, which recognizes outstanding carbon offset activities, Fuji Xerox won outstanding recognition for customer use of multifunction devices installed at convenience stores (5th Award) and Fujifilm won for its skincare series ASTALIFT (6th Award). Fujifilm will continue to promote the use of products and services that contribute to reducing CO₂ emissions to achieve its 2020 target.

Multifunction devices (Fuji Xerox) (left) and the skincare series ASTALIFT (FUJIFILM Corporation) (right) won awards at the Carbon Offset Awards.

• Reducing CO₂ Emissions in Cooperation with Customers

Energy-saving data storage that achieves an energy reduction of 74%

In the explosive growth of data volume in recent years, represented by big data, reducing the energy consumed by data storage has become a social issue. The hard disk drive, which is currently the mainstream medium for data storage, requires electric power to continuously rotate the disk, regardless of whether there is access. Of approximately 1 trillion kWh of energy consumed per year in Japan, data centers reportedly consume roughly 10 billion kWh (*1), and some 1.8 billion kWh of this volume is being consumed for data storage (*2). When storage in business enterprises and private homes is included, power consumption is estimated at roughly 3.6 billion kWh, (*3) double the aforementioned volume.

Fujifilm's dternity On-site Archive, is an energy-saving archiving system using high-capacity magnetic tape for storing low-use data, which is estimated to account for more than 80% of stored data, on magnetic tape that requires power only when reading/writing data. Compared to all the storage of data on HDDs, power consumption and CO₂ emissions can be reduced by roughly 74%. The system combines the convenience of the HDD with the low cost, long-term storage and energy-saving features of magnetic tape, for use not only by large users but also by medium and small scale users, for energy conservation on a grand scale across society. The high-capacity magnetic tape uses barium ferrite developed and commercialized for the first time by Fujifilm with a dramatic improvement in data tape capacity. Technological development will continue for further increases in data capacity in the future. The product has won recognition as a business model that achieves energy conservation through migration of low-use data from HDDs to magnetic tape for long-term storage, winning the Director-General's Prize from the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy in the Product Category & Business Model Category of the Energy Conservation Grand Prize 2016 organized by the Energy Conservation Center.

*1 Source: New Developments in the Energy Service Industry and Users, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry

*2 Source: 10th Energy Efficiency and Conservation Subcommittee Meeting, Committee on Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Advisory Committee for Natural Resources and Energy

*3 Source: Energy Conservation with Use of Tape Storage 2016, JEITA Tape Storage Technical Committee