Oki Releases Environmental Report 2004

"Oki puts importance on environmental activities as part of its CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) and gives high priority to such activities in the corporate management strategies," said Yutaka Maeda, Senior Vice President of Oki Electric, responsible for all of the Oki group's environmental protection strategies. "This is the sixth report to be published and we hope it gives a better understanding of our environmental activities to our stakeholders including customers, local citizens and governmental agencies."

In the Oki Eco Plan 21 (2003 version), Oki's environment protective activity plan, the company set a target in three areas: global warming prevention, resource recycling and chemical substance reduction. Last fiscal year Oki focused on reducing chemical substance contained in its products. Oki expanded the usage of COSMOS, the information system for chemical substances contained in products, that can easily gather information on how much chemical substances are contained in products at the design level. In addition, Oki has been promoting green procurement and achieving lead-free in new information systems to prepare for RoHS Directive, the EU's regulations for the restriction of hazardous substances contained in electric and electronic equipment, which starts from July 2006.

For global warming prevention, Oki worked on reducing CO2 by reducing the number of servers and developing low power consumption printers and achieved to reduce CO2 by 9,000 tons. The company also reduced chemical substance by calculating how much chemical substance each product contains at the designing level. Utilizing the technologies and knowledge Oki cultivated over the years on environment, from the fiscal year ending March 2004, the company started business to provide environment solutions, such as providing a lead-free soldering qualification recognition program to educate lead-free soldering technicians to achieve lead-free products.

Other major initiatives implemented by the Oki group during the last fiscal year are given below:

[Reduction of Environmental Impact]

1. Reduce chemical substances
   • Develop equipment for lead-free soldering and research lead contained in procured components
   • Achieve 100% lead-free for new information equipment systems.
   • Provide lead-free soldering qualification recognition program from December 2003
   
   
2. Prevent global warming
   • Reduce CO2 by 600 tons by shifting to high performance server
   • Trial of "unified evaluation" to evaluate overall environmental impact
   
   
3. Recycle resources
   • Enhance recycling of used products, as being approved as a Designated Recycle Manufacturer

[Enhance Environmental Compliance]

1. Increase educational programs towards approx.1000 sales representatives on waste disposals through e-learning systems

[Deploy Environmental Solution Business]

1. Provide information systems to calculate the chemical substance contained in product
2. Provide lead-free soldering equipment for non-heat resistant components
3. Supply organic waste processing system using microorganisms

About Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
Founded more than a century ago in 1881, Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. is Japan's first telecommunications manufacturer, with its headquarter in Tokyo, Japan. With the corporate vision, "Oki, Network Solutions for a Global Society," Oki Electric provides top-quality products, technologies and solutions to its customers through its telecommunications systems, information systems and electronic devices segments. All three segments are integrated into one effective organization that functions as a collective force to create exciting new products and technologies, including information and telecom converged solutions. Through its business activities, Oki Electric satisfies a spectrum of customer needs in various markets.

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