Sustainability Initiatives

Contributing to a Carbon-Neutral Society by Improving Productivity and Creating Added Value

The world is facing many difficult environmental and economic problems. We believe that it is essential for a company to link its business with solutions to socially conscious innovation and to contribute to society if it wishes to achieve sustainable growth. Kyocera Group is committed to sustainable business operations and providing value that leads to positive societal changes in order to ensure the long-term growth of both society and Kyocera Group.

Kyocera's Sustainability

Resolving Pressing Issues Facing Society Through Our Business Activities

The management philosophy of the Kyocera Group is "to pursue the physical and mental well-being of all employees while contributing to the progress and advancement of humankind and society". We believe that helping achieve internationally established sustainable development goals is the fulfillment of our management philosophy, and it is our mission to contribute to the resolution of critical issues facing society through our corporate activities.

Kyocera Group recognizes climate change countermeasures as an important issue, and is actively implementing energy-saving measures and the introduction of renewable energy at each site. As a result of our activities to date, in fiscal 2020 we reduced greenhouse gas emissions (Scope 1 and 2) by 14.9% compared to fiscal 2019. We will continue to work on various measures to prevent global warming, including energy conservation.

Introduction of SOFCs (Solid Oxide Fuel Cells)

Introduction of solar power generation systems

Fuel conversion from petroleum-based fuels to cleaner LNG (natural gas)

Sustainability in the Corporate Industrial Tools Group

We aim to contribute to improving the global environment through our global value chain and supporting our customers’ efforts toward carbon neutrality in their cutting process. We strive to minimize our CO2 emissions throughout the machining value chain, from product development, procurement, distribution, sales, machining, resource recovery and reuse, and disposal.

Kyocera Aims to Guide the Future of Manufacturing

High Efficiency Machining = Energy Conservation

High-efficiency machining = Energy conservation with a wide range of machines
High-quality machining by our new products
Providing JTA-approved environmentally conscious products

Utilization of digital transformation technologies
-Going from a world determined after machining
to a world where we can envision before machining takes place

Dynamic tool proposal using 3D-CAM
Reducing cutting time and stable machining by optimizing machining conditions
Tool shape optimization by analysis technology

Pursuing higher efficiency machining
with new solutions

Drastic improvement in productivity through development of high value-added tools
Active efforts to build new development methods
Complete tooling for next-generation components and environmentally friendly industrial components

Commitment to Carbon Neutrality

Improving manufacturing processes that emit a lot of CO2 at processing sites and realizing highly efficient machining will lead to energy and resource conservation.
Working together with our customers to enhance our technological capabilities, improve productivity and create added value is part of our efforts to become carbon neutral.

Five key points for carbon neutrality in cutting tools

EASY TOOL GUIDE EX for MFH

Kyocera's high-feed cutter MFH is very effective in reducing power consumption during milling. Using "EASY TOOL GUIDE EX for MFH", you can easily search for recommended MFH product based on your machining environment. You can also simulate and compare the estimated amount of CO2 emissions during machining.
CO2 Emissions
Simulation

At present, there is a need to reduce CO2 emissions in various manufacturing processes, and Kyocera has created a web page that allows you to simulate the approximate amount of CO2 emissions for each cutting line using a unique trial calculation method and help customers visualize their current CO2 emissions output.
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