OREANDA-NEWS. Konica Minolta, Inc. (Konica Minolta) has launched the Excellent Green Factory Certification System and plans to involve its suppliers, customers and communities in its efforts to reduce CO2 emissions and achieve Excellent Green Factory certification standards at all of its major production sites around the world by fiscal 2018. The company today published Konica Minolta CSR Report 2016 (Japanese version) on its official website, disclosing the results of the past fiscal year and plans for its environmental management, including the new certification system.

Under its original Green Factory Certification System, Konica Minolta attained its goal of achieving Level 2 at all of its production sites around the world by fiscal 2015. The Excellent Green Factory Certification System is being launched as the next step to achieve higher goals.
In addition to complying with the conventional certification standards for reducing environmental impacts from internal sources, the new system is designed to meet the standards for reducing CO2 emissions from external sources by working in unison with suppliers, customers and communities. As an ultimate goal, Konica Minolta aims to achieve the standards for Sustainable Green Factory certification by sharing its environmental technologies and know-how with external stakeholders to reduce CO2 emissions from external sources by an amount which equals CO2 emissions from internal sources.

Konica Minolta can address global environmental challenges by itself only to a limited extent, but by collaborating with external stakeholders, including suppliers, customers and communities, it is possible to make a more substantial contribution to environmental sustainability. With this realization, Konica Minolta has been striving to create value and achieve growth together with external stakeholders under its Medium-Term Environmental Plan 2016.

By launching the new Excellent Green Factory Certification System, Konica Minolta aims to expand the scope of its activities involving suppliers, customers and communities, instead of working only within the limits of its responsibility. The goal is to reduce CO2 emissions extensively, even beyond the level of Scope 3* supply chain emissions. Konica Minolta believes that by working with a wider range of external stakeholders, it can bring greater benefits to the global environment.