Environmental management system

AISIN has set up an “Aisin Consolidated Environment Committee” consisting of the environmental officers of twelve leading companies and chaired by the chief environmental management officer (the executive vice president of Aisin Seiki). The committee is engaged in the formulation of policy and strategy for the Group as a whole and in management of consolidated environmental activities.

On the basis of this system, 74 of the 92 production companies included among the 149 companies that make up the Aisin Group as of the end of March 2008 have acquired ISO14001 certification, the international standard of environmental management systems (EMS). The remaining 18 production companies will be gaining recognition by the end of fiscal 2010.

An Aisin Consolidated EMS Manual was created in fiscal 2008 with the aim of achieving management targets in excess even of those in ISO14001. On the basis of this manual, we intend to build an EMS on a level in excess of ISO in the separate fields of factories, offices, products and logistics, and to enhance our EMS level to included nonproduction companies by confirming that such a system has indeed been created.

We made a start with consolidated environmental assessment on a trial basis in fiscal 2008. This involves mutual assessment by establishments employing the same standards throughout the Group, and this is scheduled to come into effect from fiscal 2009.