Sustainability

Environmental Management

In addition to promoting the development and popularization of products and services that can help protect the environment, the NGK Group is endeavoring to preserve the global environment by improving manufacturing processes and developing and introducing manufacturing technology that has less environmental impact.

Activities covered

All NGK Group sites

  • NGK Headquarters, Nagoya Site, Chita Site, Komaki Site, Ishikawa Plant, Tokyo Main Office, Osaka Branch, and six other sales offices
  • Group companies: 55 consolidated subsidiaries

NGK’s Core Policy on the Environment

Recognizing that protecting the environment is a vital issue that all of humanity must face, the NGK Group formulated its Core Policy on the Environment in April 1996 based on Environmental Philosophy and Guidelines for Environmental Action in order to bring its corporate activities into harmony with the environment. On the basis of this policy, the NGK Group works to reduce the environmental impact of business activities, and actively strives to help protect the environment by developing products and technologies to that end.

NGK’s Core Policy on the Environment

Environmental Philosophy (revised in June 2019)

The NGK Group continues our commitment to improving the global environment through our “Triple E” businesses representing the energy, ecology, and electronic sectors.

Guidelines for Environmental Action

  • Strive to develop, design, and manufacture products that contribute to the environment and products with low environmental impact.
  • Work to reduce the environmental impact arising from business activities. Conduct design reviews to scientifically study and evaluate the environmental impact of business activities.
    • Promote energy conservation measures for all processes and facilities, and make efforts to control CO2 emissions.
    • Promote resource saving and recycling, and make efforts to control the generation of by-products.
    • Through the appropriate use and control of chemical agents, work to reduce the risks inherent in toxic substances.
    • Give precedence to environmentally friendly materials, parts, products, and facilities in procurement and purchasing, strengthening cooperative alliances with our business partners.
  • Enhance environmental management systems from a global perspective while continuously reducing our environmental impact.
  • Not only abide by environmental laws, regulations, and other requirements, but also institute voluntary standards and work to improve our own environmental conservation.
  • Provide environmental information to the public at the appropriate time and pursue dialogue with all stakeholders. Proactively develop social action programs. Also, engage in education and publicity in order to improve employees’ environmental consciousness.