Initiatives

Activities to reduce environmental burden

To reduce our environmental burden at Tokai Carbon, we not only take measures required by various laws, but also strive to reduce environmental pollutants based on our voluntary standards that are stricter than current laws.
For industrial waste, we will focus on further reduction of consignment disposal volume and overall disposal volume, by thoroughly separating waste and recycling.
In order to reduce environmental load on the atmosphere, we aim to reduce the SOx and NOx emissions of Tokai Carbon itself to below the legal emission standard level every year by managing our operations through fuel conversion, improvement of combustion methods, and appropriate operation management of our flue gas desulfurization units. We have again achieved emissions below our target level in 2023.
For 2024, the scope will be expanded to cover consolidated companies (Tokai Carbon itself and its major domestic and overseas group companies), with the aim of reducing NOx emissions to 3,400 t/y or less for NOx, (base year 2021), 18,600 t/y or less for SOx emissions (base year 2021), and 280 t/y or less for VOC’s.

Efficient use of resources

At Tokai Carbon, we produce various types of carbon products from raw materials such as petroleum pitch, feedstock, natural gas, and so on. To use resources more efficiently, we are making ongoing improvements to our production methods enabling us to produce more products with fewer raw materials.

Responding to regulations regarding chemical substances

Tokai Carbon carries out strict control of chemical substances that are hazardous and toxic to human health or to the environment, and is actively engaged in reducing their use. Furthermore, Tokai Carbon has set the following substances as “Prohibited Substances” and prohibits the manufacture and sale of products that contain these Prohibited Substances.

Performance

Environmental data