Establishment of Recycling Society

Main FY2024 Results

*The basic unit has been revised since FY2024, and figures for previous years have also been revised.

Environmental Action Plan 2025/FY2024 Activity Result

[ ]  is the ratio to the base year

Main implementation contents
Kanto Plant

Expansion of valuable sales of plastics

By sorting plastics that had been discarded as waste, it became possible to sell them as resources. In addition, we were able to reduce CO2 emissions during the transportation of waste by using existing  logistics services to collect saleable plastics beyond the boundaries of plants. We plan to expand this initiative to other plants in FY2025.

Waste reduction＜Logistics＞

Reduction of packaging materials

 In order to promote reduction of wooden packaging materials, we expanded the change from wooden pallets to  resin pallets, and  from wooden boxes to reinforced cardboard boxes.
Also, to promote reduction of paper packaging materials, by increasing the use of returnable packaging materials for export, transitioning from disposable cardboard boxes to returnable plastic cases, reviewing excessive packaging, and switching to cardboard boxes tailored to product sizes, we implemented an expansion of initiatives to reduce the amount of cushioning material used.
Since we have already achieved the targets for FY2025, we will continue to promote further reduction initiatives.

Packaging material (wood and paper) basic unit

Packaging material (wood and paper) amount used

Reduction of one-way plastic packaging materials

In order to promote the reduction of disposable plastic packaging materials, we implemented reductions by reviewing the packaging specifications (such as Styrofoam and vinyl sheets).Since we have already achieved the targets for FY2025, we will continue to promote further reduction initiatives.

One-way plastic packaging material basic unit

One-way plastic packaging material usage

Effective utilization of resources ＜Reduction of water consumption＞

Promoting the effective utilization of water

JTEKT is working to reduce water usage, an important resource, by reducing waste and recycling water within the company. In FY2024, we aimed for an improvement of over 6.0% compared with FY2018, focusing on leak prevention measures to reduce usage.

Water usage

Water usage  basic unit

Amount of recycled water

Water risk assessment

In addition to effectively using water resources by improving the water consumption base unit, JTEKT has been assessing water risks at each business site using Aqueduct* since 2017.
In the future, we will make efforts to reduce water consumption in accordance with the results of our water risk assessment, including future projections, and the water consumption and water dependency of each business site, in order to make effective use of water resources.

*Aqueduct
A database operated by the World Resources Institute (WRI) that provides world maps and information showing water risks such as physical water stress, water quality, regulatory risk concerning water resources, and reputational risk.

* Target companies for data collection : Global environmental management companies (JTEKT JAPAN 13 sites, 16 domestic group companies, 31 overseas group companies)

Identification of water risk areas

Using Aqueduct, we assess water stress factors that directly affect our business and classify locations with a 'high' risk rating as water-stressed areas. Floods, droughts, regulatory and reputational factors, and water stress factors in 2030 are also considered as future water risks.
As a result of periodic water risk assessments, among all JTEKT Group production sites, India and Mexico were rated as regions having high water stress.

Initiatives and situation of water stress regions

In India, which is a water-stressed region, water quality is poor, so they have introduced reverse osmosis membrane (RO membrane) equipment to improve water quality before supplying it to the production process. Also in Mexico, rainwater storage tanks are installed for outdoor uses such as washing and irrigation, reducing the amount of water taken from other sources.
The trend of water usage in water-stressed areas is shown in the graph below.
In FY2024, water consumption in stressed areas was 164km3 in India and 22km3 in Mexico. For these regions, special targets for water usage have been set, and measures such as water recycling and coolant reuse are being promoted.
Various reduction activities are being carried out in the India region, but the basic unit has increased. This is thought to be due to the average temperature in 2024 being higher than the normal value. In the Mexico region, although usage has increased as in the previous year, the basic unit has slightly decreased, showing the effect of reduction activities.