Environmental Accounting

Corporate Profile

Name: Canon Inc.

Establishment: August 10, 1937

YUSUKE EMURA

Managing Director

Chief, Global Environment

Promotion Committee

Headquarters: 30-2, Shimomaruko 3-chome, Ohta-ku, Tokyo

Representative: Fujio Mitarai, President and CEO

Capital: ¥164,796 million (as of December 31, 2000)

BUSINESS DECISION Building a sustainable society, an idea espoused by the whole world, is the ultimate goal of environmental conservation. With this understanding, the Canon Group adopts "maximization of resource efficiency" as its guiding principle for environmental activities.

BUSINESS BENEFITS from the introduction of the cell production method in 1998 to 2000, 380,000 m2 of 6 floor space was saved, 16,000 m of belt conveyors removed, 25 units of automatic warehousing facility abolished, and 80,000 m2 of external warehousing space made unnecessary.

decrease of 8,000 tons of carbon dioxide, a significant reduction equivalent to 6.6% of the total environmental burden produced from Canon's operations.

reduce 100 billion yen worth of intermediate inventory

reduced was the amount of work in process, approximately 28 billion yen in value, without which the current system can produce the same number products

recently set up the mechanism to expand the reuse of parts and recycling of copying machines, as well as developed and adopted recycling technologies as represented by sandwich molding and the CO2 dry cleaning technologies.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION The various innovative undertakings by Canon in 2000 created a multiplying effect, resulting in remarkable achievements.

In production, for example, the innovative shift from conveyor-based processes to the use of a cell production method.

Canon has also carried out the recycling of toner cartridges worldwide for the last 10 years, has recently set up the...