Environmental Management

Environmental management system

The Group addresses environmental issues via the AMADA Group’s Environment ECO Committee, which is chaired by the representative director. The committee has organizations such as the Plant Subcommittee and Facility Subcommittee, which formulate environmental measures for business sites, and the Product Subcommittee, which formulates environmental measures for products. In this way, the committee collects information related to the environment from each of our business sites in Japan and overseas, formulating environmental measures in each domain and conducting progress management for these.
The environmental risks, opportunities, targets, and plans for countermeasures, as well as the progress within these plans determined by the AMADA Group’s Environment ECO Committee are regularly reported to the Board of Directors for use in management decision-making.

Environmental management system diagram

Acquisition of ISO 14001 certification

AMADA Group obtained ISO 14001 certification for Isehara Works in 1998, and has remained certified ever since. Currently, 10 Group companies, one vocational training corporation, one sales office, and one union have jointly obtained one certification at 10 locations: Isehara Works, Fujinomiya Works, Ono Plant, Toki Works, Kansai Technical Center, Miki Plant, Noda Works, Fukushima Plant, Isehara Suzukawa Works, and Kawaguchi Works.

Status of ISO 14001 certification acquisition

• Notes: 1. Certification has been obtained by 10 of 13 consolidated companies in Japan (5 out of 7 manufacturing bases). The environmental impact coverage rate of certified locations based on CO₂ emissions is 97%.
• 2. Certification has been obtained by 4 of 65 consolidated companies outside Japan (5 out of 14 manufacturing bases). The environmental impact coverage rate of certified locations based on CO₂ emissions is 28%.
• 3. Frequency of internal audits
  Internal environmental audits are conducted annually for all divisions and departments at certified locations, and management reviews are conducted to confirm conformity of environmental management systems, conformity with laws and regulations, and effectiveness of performance.

Climate change-related disclosure in accordance with the TCFD recommendations

The AMADA Group has declared its support for the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), and discloses information based on the TCFD’s framework.
Please see the page linked below for more details.

Participation in international initiatives

Participation in RE100

In August 2023, AMADA joined the RE100 international environmental initiative, with the aim of achieving 100% renewable energy use for business activity at all of our sites, including that of Group companies.
Our membership in RE100 marks the first among machine tool industry companies in Japan.

SBT certification acquired

The AMADA Group obtained certification under the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions consistent with science, and set CO₂ emission reduction target in November 2022. In acquiring certification, companies are recognized by the SBT initiative if their individually set greenhouse gas emission reduction targets are deemed to contribute to the international goal of limiting the global temperature increase to less than 2°C above preindustrial levels (Well Below 2°C) or within 1.5°C. The Group’s targets (for Scope 1 and Scope 2) meet the requirements of the scenario to keep the temperature increase below 1.5°C.
At the AMADA Group, we have established and are working to achieve the two targets of reducing CO₂ emissions from all business sites and factories (Scope 1 and Scope 2) by 46.2% by fiscal 2030 compared to fiscal 2019, and reducing CO₂ emissions from indirect activities other than Scope 1 and Scope 2 (Scope 3 Categories 1 and 11) by 27.5% by fiscal 2030.

Participant in the GX League by Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry

AMADA has been a participant in the GX League since fiscal 2024. This is a forum for companies that aim to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 and social change to take on the challenge of green transformation (GX) and work together with government and academia to achieve sustainable growth in the present and future society.

Green procurement

The AMADA Group regards green procurement, the procurement of materials with low environmental load, as one of its important environmental conservation activities.
We have established the AMADA Group Green Procurement Guideline for green procurement and are advancing environmental management, including for our suppliers, to provide customers with products that have lower environmental load. We evaluate suppliers from their responses requested for our green procurement partner survey as a method of confirming the status of their implementation of the AMADA Group’s requirements. Depending on the resulting evaluation results, we will request that some suppliers make improvements to their management systems, or even conduct an audit. Through these efforts, we also support environmental risk management and the promotion of appropriate chemical substance management at our suppliers.

AMADA Group Green Procurement Guideline English version