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Honda 取り組み事例集と補足情報 2 0 11 EnvironmEntal annual rEport 2-1-1 Minami Aoyama, Minato-ku Tokyo 107-8556, Japan Honda Motor Co., Ltd. Case Studies and Supplementary Information 51 Honda global environmental symbol and slogan Our goal under the Honda Environmental Vision is to leave the joy and freedom of mobility for future generations (for our children). That is why we must create a sustainable society where people can enjoy life (blue skies). These aspirations are symbolized in our environmental slogan and symbol. Production company (Japanese and English versions) SHIAN INC., Tokyo, Japan Publisher Environment & Safety Planning O󰮐ce Manager Michio Shinohara Editors Hisashi Kato, Fumie Kimijma, Shunsuke Kawasaki Persons responsible Sales and services Automobile Shigeaki Kato Yasumasa Shimizu Motorcycle Masaharu Iuchi Power Products Takaoki Watanabe Service and Parts Noriya Kaihara Recycle Promotion O󰮐ce Hideaki Kobayashi Purchasing Akifumi Suganuma Factory and o󰮐ce operations environmental administrators Saitama Factory Shigeo Ono Tochigi Factory Koichi Aonami Hamamatsu Factory Masamichi Matsumura Suzuka Factory Masaomi Ajioka Kumamoto Factory Takayoshi Fukai Automobile New Model Center Hiroyuki Yoshihara Quality Innovation Center Tochigi Yukihiro Kariya Head O󰮐ce Takao Aoki Honda R&D Co., Ltd. Automobile R&D Center (Wako)/ Fundamental Technology Research Center/ Aircraft Engine R&D Center Akio Yagasaki Motorcycle R&D Center/Power Products R&D Center Fumihiko Nakamura Automobile R&D Center (Tochigi) Jun Yanada Automobile R&D Center (Takasu Proving Ground) Koji Kawai Honda Engineering Co., Ltd Masuhiro Sakurai Logistics Products and service parts sets Toshihide Nakai Administration Administration Takao Aoki Personnel Tetsuya Tsutsui Corporate Communications Masaya Nagai Intellectual Property Yuichiro Kawamura Note: Current as of June 1, 2011. Please direct enquiries to: ● Environment & Safety Planning Office Tel: +81-(0)3-5412-1155 Fax: +81-(0)3-5412-1154 This report can also be found on the Honda Worldwide website: http://world.honda.com/environment/report/ index.html?id=6 Environmental information disclosure The Honda Environmental Annual Report is published yearly. It presents environmental corporate information, including Honda’s policies and future direction with respect to the environment. The report focuses particularly on the results of the year’s initiatives in each management domain, and on progress made toward targets from the point of view of Honda's corporate activities throughout its products’ life cycles. Complementing the disclosure of environmental corporate information, Honda’s website (http://world.honda.com/environment/index. html) provides further details about the results in each domain (for instance, environmental impact data for each Honda facility), and also presents the history of Honda's environmental initiatives. By disclosing a wide range of information, we hope to facilitate communication and feedback, thereby strengthening our environmental conservation initiatives going forward. Environmental annual report The Honda Environmental Report is comprised of two parts: the Main Report, which focuses on annual environmental initiatives, and the Case Studies and Supplementary Information, available exclusively on Honda’s web site, which covers specific initiatives in each of the domains introduced in the report. The Honda Worldwide website’s environment section http://world.honda.com/ environment/index.html Information focusing on annual initiatives Comprehensive environmental information Editorial policy for the Honda Environmental Annual Report Early in its history, Honda recognized that an involvement in e󰮏orts to combat various kinds of environmental problems was one of its most important management priorities. We publish the Honda Environmental Annual Report to inform the public about our environmental initiatives over the preceding year. This is the 14th edition of the Honda Environmental Annual Report, which was rst published in 1988. As of 2011, Honda regards global climate change and energy issues as being particularly important among the many environmental problems that exist today. (see Page 6 for details.) To combat these problems, Honda is working to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases resulting from its business activities and from the use of its products, and has set medium-term targets for this purpose (see Page 8). Under our mid-term management plan, we have also formulated and are steadily implementing environmental initiatives to combat other environmental problems (see Page 10). We will continue to inform the public about these initiatives, and in particular about the progress we have made each year, through the Honda Environmental Annual Report. Other information, including details and data, are regularly posted on our website, as indicated in Disclosure of Honda Environmental Information. Other key information disclosure Honda’s environmental reports and website also contain corporate information other than that concerning the environment. Honda is continuously working to enhance communication with its stakeholders by making information about its various activities easy to understand and encourages feedback. Honda regards full communication with all stakeholders as essential to further improving its activities, and welcomes feedback to this and all of the reports listed below. V CSR Information Presents Honda’s ideas on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), and its initiatives in the areas of quality and safety, environment and society. CSR website: http://world.honda.com/CSR/index.html CSR report: http://world.honda.com/CSR/report/ V Investor Information Presents information on Honda’s business performance. Investor information: http://world.honda.com/investors/index.html Annual report: http://world.honda.com/investors/library/annual_report/ V Information on Philanthropic Activities Presents the ideas behind Honda’s philanthropic activities, and its main initiatives. Social activities website: http://world.honda.com/community/index.html V Safety Information Presents Honda’s safety initiatives from two perspectives: activities aimed at promoting product safety and those aimed at promoting tra󰮐c safety. Safety activities： http://world.honda.com/safety/index.html Driving safety promotion activities： http://www.honda.co.jp/safetyinfo/ (This URL is Japanese only) Report on driving safety promotion activities： http://www.honda.co.jp/safetyinfo/report/index.html (This URL is Japanese only) Online Case Studies and Supplementary Information Main report CONTENTS Honda Group case studies Initiatives in Japan 04 Adding 2.4MW capacity thin-lm solar panels at business sites in Japan  HomePowerGenerationBusinessPlanningO󰮐ce HondaMotorCo.,Ltd. 07 CO 2 emissions reduced by approximately 1,400 tons through thermal recycling and the development of a smaller VOC treatment facility  PlasticDepartment,SaitamaFactory,HondaMotorCo.,Ltd. 11 VOCs reduced by 50% through the use of water-based base coatings and special coatings for inner panels  Paint&PlasticDepartment,SuzukaFactory,HondaMotor,Co.,Ltd. 16 New treatment facilities deliver best wastewater quality in the industry  FacilitiesDepartment,SuzukaFactory,HondaMotorCo.,Ltd 20 Eco-responsible initiatives combined to create advanced Green Factory  BusinessAdministrationDivision,FacilitiesControlDepartment, HamamatsuFactory,HondaMotorCo.,Ltd. 25 Cutting CO 2 by 21% through a modal shift  ProductionOperations,ProductionPlanning&LogisticsDivision, HondaMotor,Co.,Ltd. 28 2010 Honda Green Conference  HondaMotor,Co.,Ltd. 32 CO 2 emissions reduced by 30% through installation of a gas heat pump  HondaMotorCo.,Ltd.,AdministrationDivision, RealEstateManagementDepartment  KyowaSogoManagementCo.,Ltd.  ShinryoCorporation  HokkaidoGasCo.,Ltd.,R&DCenter  HokkaidoUniversity,GraduateSchoolofEngineering,Laboratory ofBuildingEnvironment 36 Reducing CO 2 emissions through a water cycle framework  KanetaKogyoCo.,Ltd. 40 Product development 41 Product recycling (reduce, reuse, recycle) 43 Administration Additional information 44 Automobile environmental performance information (Japan) 45 Motorcycle environmental performance information (Japan) 46 Power products environmental performance information (Japan) 47 Japan facilities information 1 Advancing operations in regions 6 656,000 1,241,000 608,000 190,000 372,000 398,000 15,011,000 1,682,000 273,000 256,000 1,243,000 Europe/Middle East/Africa China Japan Asia/ Oceania Automobiles Motorcycles Power products and other 0 50,000 100,000 150,000 (¥ billion) ■ Unconsolidated ■ Consolidated 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 (FY) -2,000 2,000 6,000 10,000 0 8,000 4,000 ■ Unconsolidated ■ Consolidated (FY) (¥ billion) 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 -1,000 5,000 4,000 7,000 0 6,000 1,000 2,000 3,000 ■ Unconsolidated ■ Consolidated (FY) (¥ billion) 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Driven by its philosophy of building products close to the customer, Honda has manufacturing operations in six re- gions worldwide. In FY2011, Honda delivered 27 million products to its customers around the world. Always con- scious of the environmental impact of its operations, Honda is working hard to take environmental responsibility to ever higher levels around the world. In 2006, Honda announced global CO 2 emissions reduction targets for 2010, the rst announcement of its type by a company in the automobile industry. In 2011, we adopted “the Joy and Freedom of Mobility” and “a Sustain- able Society where People Can Enjoy Life” as the Honda Environmental Vision. Under this vision, Honda is deter- mined to accelerate its global e󰮏orts to nd solutions to climate change and the energy problem. Annual sales in Honda’s six regions by unit volume (FY2011) Power products: included in gure for Asia/Oceania Net sales Operating income Net income Financial information 2 3 1,465,000 2,094,000 184,000 159,000 1,744,000 118,000 0 50,000 100,000 200,000 150,000 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 ■ Unconsolidated ■ Consolidated (FY) Number of associates Net sales by operational area (consolidated: FY2011) Net sales by region (consolidated: FY2011) Company name: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. Head o󰮐ce: 2-1-1 Minami Aoyama, Minato-ku Tokyo 107–8556, Japan Established: September 24, 1948 President & CEO: Takanobu Ito Capital: ¥86.067 billion (as of March 31, 2011) Sales: Consolidated: ¥8.9368 trillion (Results of FY2011) Unconsolidated: ¥2.9154 trillion Number of associates: Consolidated: 179,060 (as of March 31, 2011) Unconsolidated: 25,673 (as of March 31, 2011) Consolidated subsidiaries: 383 (as of March 31, 2011) Major products: Automobiles: Standard-sized vehicles, compact vehicles and mini-vehicles Motorcycles: Scooters, mini-bikes, motorcycles, ATVs and personal watercraft Power products: Power product engines, lawnmowers, marine outboard engines, CIG thin lm solar cells, and household gas- engine cogeneration units Note: Honda is a member of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). Company overview Automobiles 76.0％ Financial services 6.3％ Power products and other 3.3％ Motorcycles 14.4％ Japan 16.8% Europe 6.8% Asia 20.7% North America 43.9% Other 11.8% North America South America 2 3 Honda Group case studies 1 From creating products that people use everyday to the energy production business                                        2 19,000 panels installed at 15 sites in one year               󰮏       Home Power Generation Business Planning O󰮐ce, Power Products Operations Division, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. General Manager Omura Thin-lm solar panels at the Hamamatsu Factory In scal 2010, Honda installed thin-lm solar panels with a total capacity of 2.4MW at 15 major business facilities in Japan. Together with panels previously installed, this brought the total capacity to 3.2MW. We interviewed Eiichi Omura, head of the Home Power Generation Business Planning Office in the Power Products Operations Division, which has coordinated the implementation of this project, about the reasons for Honda’s decision to install solar panels at its main business facilities. Adding 2.4MW capacity thin-lm solar panels at business facilities in Japan 4 5   󰮏                   3 Honda CIGS thin-lm solar panels aim to be the best in the world 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   5 The Honda Smart Home concept —produce at home, use at home    󰮏       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reduce emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). The RTOs enabled VOC concentrations to be reduced below the required standard while also reducing energy requirements through heat recovery, without changing the existing facilities. We also succeeded in reducing the size of RTOs after discovering the leveling e󰮏ect of activated charcoal on VOC concentrations. These measures have reduced CO 2 emissions by about 1,400 tons annually.  1 Improving processes without changing existing facilities                  󰮐  󰮐 2 Minimizing energy used by RTOs                                Plastic Department, Saitama Factory, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. The VOC treatment facility at the Saitama Factory CO 2 emissions reduced by approximately 1,400 tons through thermal recycling and the development of a smaller VOC treatment facility Masahiro Nakao Hisashi Saito 6 7 A bumper coating booth   3 Heat from RTO utilized in two thermal recycling pathways                               Structure of a Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer (RTO) Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer (RTO): This is a generic term for a system that accumulates heat while breaking down gases through combustion. * The RTO can be fueled by LNG or VOCs. Burners Gas burner Oil burner Poppet damper Heavily shielded, durable, easy to maintain Thermal insulation support grid Input/output ducts Incinerator VOCs and aromatics broken down at high temperatures (800ºC or higher) Honeycomb ceramic heat absorption material ・ Large contact area̶ high heat exchange efficiency ・ Direct gas flow̶pressure loss reduced Thermal insulation 250mm thick̶This reduces thermal radia- tion and keeps the surface temperature of the system low. Hot bypass damper This efficiently uses thermal energy from the spontaneous combus- tion of hot VOCs. Cleaned air is carried through this recycling duct. Burners fueled by LNG in the air-conditioning chamber 8 9 [...]... three times There is one baking after electrodeposition1, another after the application of the middle coat, and a third after the application of the base and clear coats On the new line, the use of drying ovens after the application of the middle coat was eliminated, leaving one baking stage after electrodeposition and a second after the application of the other three coats (middle, base, clear) The result... production,”recalls Mr Toki.“We knew that the compressors were the biggest users of energy, so we decided at the outset to reconcile the goals of reliable air supply and the reduction of CO 2 emissions.”After working on the power aspects of facility management, as a member of the Environmental Secretariat, he experienced the task of asking people to save energy.“People often told me that they wanted to save energy... unable to do so because of a lack of funds I therefore resolved to go back to power system management and make the savings myself.” Tatsuo Toki Having set the goal of making the Hamamatsu Factory’ compressors s the best in the world in terms of air supply efficiency, his first concern was to change the attitudes of those responsible for the management of the system.“I wanted to change the perception that... panels Another priority in the construction of the new factory was to use solar energy, and 2,000 thin-film solar panels manufactured by Honda Soltec were installed The panels have been installed not only on the roof and walls of the factory, but also along the employee access route, which is visible from the entrance, and on the roof of the multilevel bicycle parking structure There are now 2,563 thin-film... Fuji by gradually increasing the number of solar panels to 3,776, which is the 23 A solar power system has been installed on the roofs and walls of the new factory height of Mount Fuji in meters The latest batch of installations, finished in January 2011, added another 400 panels on the multilevel parking structure, 10 on the wastewater treatment facility, and 110 on the Hosoe Plant.“Whenever buildings... the participation of all of Honda domestic domains and s many suppliers as well, reaches beyond the Honda Group to become an event for sharing environmental efforts over the full life cycle of products The eighth Honda Green Conference, held at the Aoyama Headquarters in December 2010, attracted 300 people engaged in environmental affairs at each of Honda divisions and at suppliers s Honda Motor, Co.,... the amount of energy consumed in VOC treatment by 40%,”reports Mr Nakao.“What is more, the amount of energy recycled exceeds the amount of energy used to drive the system This initiative began with the idea that it was wrong to waste heat from the exhaust gases. The temperature of gases processed in the concentration system was only 27–28ºC, and nobody had thought of recovering and recycling the heat... reduce the size of the main RTO unit by 30% The concentration system also turns VOCs into fuel LNG is burned to raise the temperature in the RTO At a certain concentration, VOCs undergo spontaneous combustion, helping to maintain the temperature in the incinerator If the amount of heat provided by the VOCs falls, the LNG burners ignite, ensuring that the temperature is constantly maintained at 830ºC The. .. be ideal for application to the panels’ complex shapes With this new approach, the coat could be made thinner, reducing the amount of coating materials used and the amount of VOCs emitted The development of specialized inner-panel coatings was the key to the reduction of coating use According to Mr Onishi, the idea of using specialized coatings on inner panels arose while the engineers were considering... center of the site was rebuilt as an advanced factory with enhanced efficiency in terms of space, production and the environment According to Tetsuji Fujiwara, an engineer in the Business Administration Division of the Facilities Control Department, one of the reasons for the central location was a policy of maintaining straight paths for material flows.“By locating assembly operations in the middle of the . initiatives going forward. Environmental annual report The Honda Environmental Report is comprised of two parts: the Main Report, which focuses on annual environmental initiatives, and the Case Studies. environmental initiatives over the preceding year. This is the 14th edition of the Honda Environmental Annual Report, which was rst published in 1988. As of 2011, Honda regards global climate. combat various kinds of environmental problems was one of its most important management priorities. We publish the Honda Environmental Annual Report to inform the public about our environmental initiatives