3.6 | Management of Chemical Substance Examples of Our Unique Materials and Processes that Contribute to Meeting the SDGs Materials/ Contribution SDGs Processes • A component in a device that achieves both high-speed, high- quality performance and reducing environmental load. This component allows for space-saving in the device body (50% reduction), energy consumption of the drum cartridge (the part that applies toner and prints text or images onto paper) by 60%, and production cost of drum cartridge by reducing the number of parts and its downsizing by 70%.* * Comparison on our company's multi-function devices, with conventional components as 100%. Electrically- • Received Asahi Shimbun Award and Award for Contribution to charged Invention under the National Invention Awards 2022. materials https://www.fujifilm.com/fb/company/news/release/2022/77145 • Received Asahi Shimbun Award under the National Invention Awards 2022 for Patent No. 6136862 concerning this technology. http://koueki.jiii.or.jp/hyosho/zenkoku/2022/asahi.html • Received the Minister's Prize, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry under the 11th Eco Products Awards for our multifunction device that adopts this technology. https://www.jemai.or.jp/ris/award-results2014.html • Contributes to the reduction of VOC use in manufacturing. • Provides a variety of hydrophilic azo polymerization initiators and RAFT agents, enabling the manufacture of functional water-soluble Water-based polymers. polymeric Azo polymerization initiators material https://specchem-wako.fujifilm.com/jp/azo-polymerization-initiators/index.htm#water-soluble-azo-initiators RAFT agents https://specchem-wako.fujifilm.com/jp/raft/index.htm • Contributes to carbon neutrality by providing non-fossil fuel- Plant-based derived raw materials. plastic • Provides monomers derived from pine resin, which can be used as raw material for biomass plastic. • Contributes to water quality and environmental management. • Promotes the development of Certified Reference Materials (CRM) of elemental (metal) standard solutions. • Developes PFAS mixed standard solution and mixed internal Measurement standard solution used in notification and inspection methods of the Standard Water Supply Act. Reagents for Acquisition of certification for element standard solutions Environmental https://www.fujifilm.com/ffwk/ja/news/218 Management Element standard solutions https://labchem-wako.fujifilm.com/jp/category/analysis/elementalanalysis/index.html Development of PFAS mixture standard solution https://labchem-wako.fujifilm.com/jp/category/00353.html • Achieves both quality & ease of use and reducing environmental load. • To eliminate plate processors from printing along with related power, chemicals, water, and wastewater. Calculated per factory with the following essentially becoming zero Printing based on representative example: electricity: 12,600 kWh/year, materials & chemicals: 2.2 tons/year, water: 12.1 tons/year, waste liquid: 4.3 process-less tons/year. plates • Using our unique technology, improves the visibility of exposure images and the durability of plates, which used to be trade-off relationships with process-less printing. https://www.fujifilm.com/jp/ja/business/graphic/ctpplate/processless • Received Incentive Award for Research Conference Presentation in the 147th Japanese Society of Printing Science and Technology conference, 2022. 94 FUJIFILM Holdings Corporation Sustainability Report 2023
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