Murata and the Environment

Overall image of environmental impact and environmental accounting

Murata strives to quantitatively ascertain the environmental impact associated with its business activities and analyzes that information to reduce the environmental impact.

Murata’s environmental impact

Measures to respond to climate change and conservation/recycling of resources are priorities

Although the electronic components we manufacture are small, the amount of resources such as energy and water used in their production is not.

We have established goals related to the reduction of environmental impact for fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2024 from a lifecycle perspective and are taking action to achieve those goals.

Input and output related to environmental burdens
  • Murata increased the applicable types of substances to be used as VOCs and expanded its business sites that implement aggregation of emissions from fiscal 2022. Click “Prevent pollution and manage chemical substances” for more information.

Link: ESG Data Collection

Link: Prevent pollution and manage chemical substances

Data calculation method

“Total substance input” and “Chemical substance atmospheric emissions” represent totals for manufacturing plants and subsidiaries in Japan. Other figures represent totals for manufacturing plants and subsidiaries in Japan and other locations.

Environmental accounting: Fiscal 2022 results and analysis

Expenses for environmental activities in fiscal 2022 totaled approximately 9.5 billion yen. The figure for capital investment was approximately 3.7 billion yen.

Environmental accounting: Fiscal 2022 results and analysis

Classification Costs (Millions of yen) Investment (Millions of yen)
Fiscal 2021 Fiscal 2022 Fiscal 2021 Fiscal 2022
Costs at manufacturing plant premises Pollution prevention 260 297 349 376
Environmental protection 285 326 702 1,729
Recycling of resources 3,222 2,966 485 733
Subtotal 3,768 3,589 1,536 2,838
Upstream/downstream environmental protection costs 69 79 0 0
Management activities costs 1,175 1,346 26 51
Social activities costs 88 100 0 0
Cost of R&D 3,477 4,394 262 889
Environmental damage costs 0 0 0 0
Total 8,577 9,508 1,824 3,778

Calculation method

  • Aggregates include each Murata Manufacturing business site and domestic production plant (21 companies) .
  • Figures were aggregated for the 12-month period from April 2022 to March 2023.
  • Costs include personnel costs and depreciation costs.