In September 2005, West-Japan Auto Recycle received a Global 100 Eco-Tech Award in the sector of effective use of resources at the 2005 World Exposition held in Aichi, Japan for their technology to recycle used cars by using the converter process. The company is a group company of our partner, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Works (current Nippon Steel Corporation Kyushu Works).The award recognizes the rapid and thorough separation of reusable parts collected from end-of-life vehicles on the disassembly and separation lines with a recycle rate of 99%. This means that the Yoshikawa Recycle Process we developed is appreciated.

Our basic philosophy is to recognize global environmental issues as critical issues for human beings, endeavor to preserve the natural environment, and perform business activities that contribute to the realization of an environmentally harmonious and prosperous society.

We conduct environment management activities and continue to improve them according to the following guidelines in every aspect of business activities.

1. All employees promote environment management activities, being sufficiently aware of environmental aspects when producing, controlling, developing, and delivering products and supplying services in our business activities.
2. We comply with environmental laws, agreements, and other rules and establish internal management standards for better management.
3. We guarantee that all products delivered to clients do not contain substances prohibited by them.
4. We establish a system to continuously improve environmental impact and manage waste, discharged water, exhaust and other substances generated from production and management activities to prevent environmental pollution.
   1. We endeavor to improve the efficiency of production and ancillary equipment to promote energy saving.
   2. We encourage resource saving by streamlining operations and eliminating waste at work.
   3. We endeavor to effectively use resources by promoting the reuse of resources such as waste recycling.
   4. We endeavor to prevent environmental pollution by properly managing chemicals, hazardous substances, and other materials.
5. We set environmental goals and objectives, assess their progress, and review them for continuous improvement.
6. We inform all employees of this environment policy through environmental training, workplace communication, and other activities.
7. We publish this environment policy in response to external requests.

Kazuyoshi Yoshikawa, President and Representative Director Yoshikawa Kogyo Co., Ltd.
Established on February 24, 2003
Revised on April 1, 2019

We aim at safe, secure and timely procurement operations to contribute to society, clients and suppliers through businesses that we have developed since our foundation in 1920 under the basic philosophy: Respect, Belief, and Heart.

We set the following operation guidelines based on the above policy.

 

1. We are thoroughly committed to compliance.
   • We comply with laws and regulations and perform operations, respecting social norms.
   • The procurement department is in charge of procurement operations such as quotations, contracts and order placement for fair operations.
   • We fairly consider a variety of aspects such as technologies, quality, lead time, price, after-sales service, and the potential of domestic and international candidates to select suppliers.
   • We maintain the confidentiality of information received from suppliers in an appropriate manner.
   • We conduct periodic internal audits and audit suppliers as needed.
   • We never receive inappropriate benefits from suppliers.
2. We value cooperation with suppliers.
   • Staff from relevant departments actively visit suppliers based on our hands-on policy and value mutual communication.
   • Our relevant departments work together to make sincere efforts to improve technological issues, quality issues, and other issues.
   • We develop seeds through activities such as joint development or joint ventures with suppliers.
   • We make efforts to reduce the logistics load and eliminate the use of paper by leveraging IT.

We release the following information based on the revised Worker Dispatch Law
(revised on October 1, 2012, paragraph 5 of Article 23).

• Number of dispatched workers 　2
• Number of client companies 　2
• Margin rate 　29.20%
• Education and training
  1. Onboard training
  2. Basics of design
  3. Design and drawing
  4. Leader development training
• Average dispatching charge 23,530 yen/day (eight hours)
• Average salary of dispatched workers 16,660 yen/day (eight hours)
• Other (such as perquisites)
  1. Social insurance (50% of the premium born by the employer)
  2. Paid leave
  3. Periodic health checkup

【 Policy 】
Yoshikawa Kogyo promotes responsible procurement of minerals in our business activities and global supply chain to fulfill our social responsibility.

According to the Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas, we do not procure raw materials from suppliers that are involved in the following:
    １.Violation of human rights such as child labor
    ２.Poor work environments or environmental destruction or pollution
    ３.Funding terrorists
    ４.Illicit trade
    ５.Assistance for conflict
In principle, we do not use minerals from conflict-affected and high-risk areas (tin, tantalum, tungsten, gold and cobalt) as raw materials to implement the basic policy.

【 Efforts 】
We understand the U.S. Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (Dodd-Frank Act) and the EU Conflict Minerals Regulation and verify and select the suppliers of raw materials used in our products.
In addition, we follow the OECD due diligence guidance and the RBA code of conduct, encouraging suppliers to understand our efforts, so that clients can use our products without worry.

We cooperate for responsible procurement of minerals according to the basic policy with the information required for conflict minerals survey by Yoshikawa Kogyo.

RBA：Responsible Business Alliance