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 overall image of environmental impact

We have established goals related to the reduction of environmental impact for fiscal 2025 to fiscal 2027 from a lifecycle perspective and are taking action to achieve those goals.

Input and output related to environmental burdens

Link: ESG Data Collection
Link: Manage chemical substances
Link: Prevent pollution

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    Data for FY 2025 are provisional values as of June 2026.

Data calculation method

“Total substance input” and “Chemical substance atmospheric emissions (only NOx, SOx)” 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 2025

Expenses for environmental activities in fiscal 2025 totaled approximately 9.0 billion yen. The figure for capital investment was approximately 5.0 billion yen.

Classification Costs (Millions of yen) Investment (Millions of yen)
Fiscal 2024 Fiscal 2025 Fiscal 2024 Fiscal 2025
Costs at manufacturing plant premises Pollution prevention 340 312 1,533 1,574
Environmental protection 373 343 3,727 3,601
Recycling of resources 3,197 3,511 154 37
Subtotal 3,909 4,166 5,414 5,212
Upstream/downstream environmental protection costs 90 83 0 0
Management activities costs 1,504 2,732 196 12
Social activities costs 115 106 0 0
Cost of R&D 1,901 2,092 350 87
Environmental damage costs 0 0 0 0
Total 7,519 9,178 5,960 5,310

Calculation method

  • Aggregates include each Murata Manufacturing business site and domestic production plant (23 companies) .
  • Figures were aggregated for the 12-month period from April 2025 to March 2026.
  • Costs include personnel costs and depreciation costs.
  • The data classification and aggregation methods were revised in FY2025. This revealed errors in some data for past fiscal years, and the figures have been revised accordingly.