Promoting New Environmental Products and Technologies

The AISIN Group believes that reduction of environmental loads and development of pioneering environmental technologies is key to building a sustainable society. In every business from automotive parts and life related to energy, we aim to develop high-performance, high-quality products with minimal impact on the environment through Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and alternative energy research.

Lifecycle assessment (LCA)

In order to develop products that are considerate to the planet, we need to gain an accurate picture of the type of burden that they may place on the environment and at which stage of the product lifecycle.

In fiscal 2007 AISIN created an “Aisin LCA template”, the aim of which is to make it possible to calculate the effects that project activities may have on the environment at every stage from the gathering of the materials needed to make the products in question through to manufacture, transportation, use and disposal in connection with 34 representative product categories. Use of this template at the development stage enables us to grasp and reduce the quantities of CO₂ generated by products throughout their lifecycle.