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  President and CEO
  Hideo Suzuki


Steelmaking to meet environmental needs

Nisshin Steel has been meeting the needs of the times and of society by working to give steel, especially surface-treated plate and sheet steel, stainless steel, and special steel, longer life, greater functionality, and more attractive design. And anticipating today's growing concern with environmental issues from a regional to a global scale, we are leading the evolution toward steelmaking that meets the needs of the environment.
With an awareness that "protecting the environment is the keynote for management," we are active in environmental management built on three main pillars: (1) activities to reduce the environmental impact in production processes, (2) providing products that make a contribution to environmental protection, and (3) participation of everyone in the Nisshin Steel group.
To reduce the environmental impact throughout the manufacturing process, our affiliated companies are actively engaged in ways to protect the environment, save energy, and recycle resources, investing in the necessary equipment and establishing manufacturing processes that are efficient and kind to the environment.

In addition, we are working to completely capture all the byproducts produced in the manufacturing process, and as part of these zero-emissions efforts we are developing recycling technology and promoting the collection and recycling of local byproducts.

Faithful to the basics
What is important in environmental management is to have a system to ensure that environmental accidents do not happen and to minimize their effects if they do. Essential here is not just the hardware of equipment but also the software of the people who operate the equipment in full awareness of the environment. It is important not just to monitor environmental data but also to be aware of the risk associated with changes in the data, and through retraining we seek to maintain and improve the awareness and abilities of the people who are to recognize such changes.
The evolution of steel products can be achieved by making sure that the needs of customers do not go unnoticed at any stage, from sales to development, research, and manufacturing.
This information is shared throughout the company and is essential for uncovering the very existence of problems. It is part of acting together as a group, faithful to the basics around our ISO environmental management system in an ever-ascending spiral of the PDCA cycle for environmental protection.

Environmental protection through eco-materials
Our products are "products (eco-materials) that are kind to the environment and to people," in which the steel is given high-function added value. Through high-function products we help protect the environment while meeting the public's demanding and various environmental needs, including forestalling global warming, saving energy and resources, and reducing waste products.
Our unique high-function DNA-SUS stainless steel series, which is currently under development, makes it possible to have options that broadly contribute to environmental protection by eliminating heat treatments in the manufacturing process and developing environmental improvement applications in fields where there is a demand for longer lifecycle and greater workability. Our highly corrosion-resistant hot-dip coated steel sheet "ZAM® " is noted for having 5 to 8 times the corrosion resistance of our previous zinc-aluminum coated steel sheet, has been newly adopted in a variety of fields related to the environment and people, and helps protect the environment through a longer useful lifetime for customers' products.
In addition, we stand ready with chromium-free surface-treated sheet steels for various applications to rapidly comply with the European ELV and RoHS directives and other regulations governing chemical substances contained in products.
Aware that our business activities are based on coexistence and cooperation with the local community, we have prepared this environmental report to more deeply communicate with you about the environment and convey our approach to environmental management and what we have accomplished thus far.
We would appreciate your continued support and understanding of our business activities and our efforts to safeguard the environment.

 
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