[Priority Issue 1] Promote Global Warming Countermeasures: Outline of Activities in FY2016 “Design for Environment”

Fujifilm has been working on reducing environmental impact for its all new and renewed products according to “Rule for Design for Environment” since 2003. In FY2016, the Medium-Term CSR Plan (SVP 2016) to “reduce CO₂ emission by 20 million tons by FY2020 (compared to the 2005 level)” neared completion. Our “Onsite Archive System” business model with energy saving using magnetic tapes won the Director General's Prize at the Agency of Natural Resources and Energy Award, and our cosmetics products with a carbon offset won recognition for excellence in the Carbon Offset Awards.

We are currently assessing the volume of contribution for products and services based on our internal guidelines to Calculate the Environmental Contribution for the Reduction in CO₂ Emissions (*) formulated in 2013. In FY2016, we increased the visibility of the contribution made by all our products to include software, services and IT systems products.

For water usage which is now growing world attention, we are making effort to visualize water usage across the product life cycle, under the internal guidelines to Calculate the Water Footprint formulated in 2014.

* The internal guidelines to Calculate the Environmental Contribution for the Reduction in CO₂ Emissions: The guidelines set out the policy and methods for calculating the volume of CO₂ emissions that can be reduced when customers use our products and services by comparing to the emissions when our products or services are not in use, or when other alternatives are used.

Fuji Xerox hopes to contribute to both solving issues and reducing environmental impact at customer offices through its products and services. At the core of its mission is our concept of “RealGreen,” our policy on realizing both environmental performance and convenience. The goal is to achieve “Comfortable Eco,” an ideal rooted in our conviction that to achieve true environmental performance, our product must be stress-free for customers as well earth-friendly. We have a strong belief that true eco functions do not impose any stress on customers, and we are working hard to create new value in which the environmental technologies that we have developed so far are organically fused. Utilizing the products developed under such a concept and belief, we are directing our focus on customers' problem solving and work style reform.

In FY2016, sales of our solution service business—which incorporates a high CO₂ reduction effect—increased, which in turn increased the amount of contribution for CO₂ emission reduction at customers' sites by 265 kt-CO₂ resulting in a total of 3,727 kt-CO₂. Also, our efforts in paper resource recycling through development and sales activities for the Trust-Eco1500 shredder, which employs an unconventional “tear and crush” system, led us to receive the Chairperson's Prize in the 3Rs (Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle) Promotion Merit Awards 2016 (hosted by 3R Suishin Kyogikai (3Rs Promotion Council)). As paper is torn, mixed, and compressed in this new model of shredder, it will help curb environmental impact through a paper resource saving worth 900 million sheets (annual estimated value for FY2015) and 2,200 tons of CO₂ reduction that could be generated by incineration of the same amount of paper.