At the heart of Kyocera founder Dr. Kazuo Inamori’s philosophy is the motto, “Respect the Divine and Love People”. Guided by this philosophy, Kyocera Group and Kyocera Document Solutions UK specifically, are continuously working to reduce our environmental impact.
Kyocera Group UK are taking action to offset our UK operation’s carbon by working with partners to reforest our paper use and by funding carbon-reducing projects around the world. By carbon offsetting Scope 1+2 and certain Scope 3 GHG-emissions 2021/2022, we are proud to be carbon neutral.
Achieving carbon-neutral status is an important milestone but that is only the start of our journey. We are realistic and acknowledge that we need to reduce our emissions as well as offsetting them. Atmospheric carbon and climate change are just part of the challenge we face. We need to reduce our consumption, recycle more and prevent plastic getting into the environment.
With myclimate, we invest in international projects which are certified by CDM Gold Standard. It is the most stringent certification for carbon offsetting projects and is supported by 60 NGOs worldwide. It is the only standard which certifies a project’s sustainable development factors, including co-benefit criteria like healthcare, job creation or reforestation.
By investing in community projects throughout the world through myclimate, we prevent carbon emissions equivalent to those that we’ve produced. This can take the form of protecting forests or supplying communities with methods of cooking that release less greenhouse gases.
Ensuring that indigenous land rights are secured and community land use plans are implemented by establishing forest conservation activities.
Distribution of efficient cook stoves for displaced people, reducing the amount of firewood used and reducing CO2 emissions.
Replacing inefficient cook stoves being used by the majority of the Nigerian population with highly efficient cook stoves. The project intends to reduce carbon emissions, improve health and reduce deforestation.
As well as reforesting all of the paper paper used by our UK operations, we’re reforesting the paper used by customers who purchase our TASKalfa Pro 15000c inkjet production printer through our partnership with Printreleaf.
This project increased connectivity between two areas of ancient woodland, with the total area connected reaching approximately 32 hectares. While small on a global scale, this is a significant woodland in an Irish context. This is one of the largest areas of contiguous deciduous dominated woodland in County Antrim.
Bees are crucial pollinators for a wide variety of plants and are essential for our eco systems. Unfortunately, however, bees and other insects are in decline around the world. That’s why Kyocera UK have taken the step of installing bee hives on top of our Reading HQ! They’re hard at work pollinating flowers in nearby parks and gardens, helping nature thrive alongside us and as a bonus supplying us with our own Bee Kind Honey.
We’re immensely proud of our bees and their work ethic. In 2024 the 120,000 bees on our roof top produced a bumper ‘freebee’ harvest – 61kg of Kyocera Bee Kind honey, which makes us all feel rather humble.
Ever since Kyocera was founded, all corporate activities of the Kyocera Group have been based on our corporate motto of “Respect the Divine and Love People” and our three pillars of “LIVING TOGETHER”: coexistence with society, coexistence with global community, and coexistence with nature. We aim for sustainable growth while seeking to balance ecology and economy, and the entire Kyocera Group is committed to environmental management.
KYOCERA Document Solutions has achieved ISO 14001:2004, the international standard for environmental management systems. This highlights KYOCERA’s commitment to a sustainable environmental management strategy.
KYOCERA strives to certify all of its manufacturing plants and non-manufacturing facilities throughout the world to the ISO 14001:2004 standard. KYOCERA is committed to:
In line with Kyocera’s signature to the UN Global Compact, we are structuring our Social Responsibility Goals for the UK in support of the seven UN Sustainable Development Goals below.
Kyocera views solar as crucial for the future of our society. We are innovating to reduce our planet’s dependence on conventional energy sources, with ideas such as floating solar power plants to solar ventilation in the Toyota Prius.
Kyocera will continue to introduce solar power generation systems at our numerous locations and regions, and acquire environmental value certificates, aiming to achieve 100% renewable energy at all Kyocera Document Solutions Group locations by 2030.
We purify water used in our factories so that it’s cleaner when we’ve finished with it than the water in the public water supply. We work hard to make our factories and offices ‘green’, with rooftop solar power systems and ‘green curtains’ planted to grow over windows and outer walls, helping reduce our energy consumption. We also contribute to biodiversity conservation.
In manufacturing, various factors can lead to loss. However, this loss can be reduced to at or near zero through total awareness of all parties involved. Through our comprehensive approach to “visibility,” KYOCERA Document Solutions publicly shares all problem spots and issues with every employee. This approach utilises the awareness of each individual to minimise loss. All employees develop careful eyes for strictly checking each individual part, helping to achieve loss reduction. Multiple measures are taken to ensure product quality, including issuing acknowledgments even if a single potentially fatal defect is reported during the month. These are just some of the ways we evaluate our stance toward comprehensive product quality throughout the company.
Electric power consumption in stand-by and the default time it takes to enter this mode has an important Impact on the overall power consumption of the devices. In line with the “EC 801/2013” (Lot 26) regulations, the overview informs about the default timeouts the Devices take to enter into network standby (sleep) mode as well as the power consumption when connected to the stated interfaces.
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