Activities for Reducing Environmental load

Promotion and implementation of corporate activities that are environmentally friendly is one of the management cornerstones held up by the Company. As a general trading house of paper, we are actively undertaking activities to reduce various environmental loads in an effort to realize a recycling-oriented society and to take part in a low-carbon society.

In order to sustainably reduce the environmental load in entire phases of its corporate activities, we have kicked off environmental management systems under ISO 14001 and actively promoting activities that contribute to resource conservation. We acquired ISO 14001 certification in June 2002 for its operations at the head office in Tokyo and in June 2003 for its operations at all of its branches throughout Japan.

Forest certification is a mechanism that supports the sustainable utilization and conservation of forests through sales of products that use raw materials from appropriately managed forests. Acquiring chain-of-custody certification (CoC certification) on distribution and processing of forest products from FSC® and PEFC, which are the two major forest certifiers of the world, we are endeavoring to expand sales of its products.

PEFC Forest Certification (CoC Certification)
Acquired on October 1, 2007
Certificate No. SGSJP-PCOC-0213

*FSC®( Forest Stwewardship Council ®) is an independent, non-governmental, not for profit organization established to promote the responsible management of the world's forests.

*The PEFC Council is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organization, founded in 1999 which promotes sustainably managed forests through independent third party certification.

Trees were planted on the roof of the head office building in 2009 to mitigate the urban heat-island phenomenon and to reduce CO2 emissions through lower consumption of electric energy. At the same time, vegetable gardens are provided to grow fruits and vegetables to raise awareness of the employees toward environmental contributions.

The KPP Yaesu Building, an office building in downtown Tokyo for renting, has achieved a reduction of CO2 emissions of about 32% compared with ordinary office buildings in terms of the standard for energy saving calculations set by Tokyo Metropolis. The reduction has been achieved through the installation of solar power panels, efficient air-conditioning and lighting systems, and full-scale introduction of LED lighting in office zones.

We are making an effort to reduce the environmental impact imposed by distribution of its products by concentrating warehouses at its operations, promoting planned delivery of its products, and improving the load efficiency through the use of joint loading service and joint delivery service.