TAIYO YUDEN Group expands its business and enhances its economic value by creating and providing smart products to the society, and making our products available for use in various markets.

Smart Products are composed of Smart Design, Smart Production Processes, and Systems, "Low power consumption", "Downsizing", and "Abolishing use of toxic substances" in Smart Design, and "More efficient use of energy", "Reuse and recycle", and "Minimizing emissions" in Smart Production Processes are established as environmental materiality.

We set the Medium-Term Environmental Targets for the environmental materiality, and implement activities to accomplish it.

Taiyo Yuden Group Environmental Targets and Results

We are aiming to reduce our environmental impact over the five-year period from fiscal 2016 to 2020. We first medium-term environmental goals on a per-project basis, and then set sub-goals on a per-site basis and then on a per-department basis so that each business unit can actually work on specific activities.

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