ESG Data

   TOWA Group’s ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) data is summarized in lists below. For more information on governance, see the Corporate Governance page.
 

Environment

CO2 emissions (Scope1, 2)
  CO2 is the only GHG (greenhouse gas) related to our business activities.

Items Unit Achievements Targets

FY2020
(Base year)

   FY2021     FY2022     FY2023     FY2024     FY2030  
Scope1 (TOWA Group Total) t-CO2 514 547 498 361 322 9,323
(Japan)        t-CO2 301 313 203 201 155
(Overseas)   t-CO2 213 234 295 159 167
Scope2 (TOWA Group Total) t-CO2 15,560 14,654 11,894 12,344 12,841
(Japan)        t-CO2 6,186 3,028 2,163 2,255 2,637
(Overseas)   t-CO2 9,374 11,626 9,732 10,089 10,205
Scope1,2 Total t-CO2 16,074 15,201 12,392 12,704 13,163
CO2 emissions relative to sales
(CO2 emission intensity)		 t-CO2
/million
yen		 0.541 0.300 0.230 0.252 0.246 0.099
(Reference
value)

  Scope1：Direct greenhouse gas emissions from our group
  Scope2：Indirect emissions from the use of electricity, heat and steam supplied by other companies
  From FY2023, two additional sites, TOWA FINE (Korea, made a subsidiary in 2022) and TOWA TOOL (Malaysia, made a subsidiary in 2023), have been added.
  (Japan) is the total of 5 production bases including group companies, and (Overseas) is the total of 6 production bases of group companies.
    Japan: Headquarters/ Factory, Kyoto East Plant, Kyushu Work, BANDICK Corporation, TOWA LASERFRONT Corporation
    Overseas: TOWA Korea Co., Ltd., TOWAM Sdn. Bhd. , TOWA (Suzhou) Co., Ltd., TOWA (Nantong) Co., Ltd.,
                   TOWA FINE CO., LTD., TOWA TOOL SDN. BHD.
  For the CO2 emission factor, the Ministry of the Environment’s list of emission factors by electric power companies is used for Japan, and the Emissions Factors issued by the IEA for overseas.
  For the CO2 emission factor of fuel, the Ministry of the Environment’s list of emission factors by gas companies, and the Ministry of the Environment’s List of calculation methods and emission factors in the calculation, reporting and publication system are used.

 

CO2 emissions (Scope3)
  In addition to Scope 1 and 2, we began calculating Scope 3 emissions in FY2022.

Category Unit Achievements Bound-
aries		 Calculation methods
FY2022 FY2023 FY2024
Scope 1, 2, 3 Total
(reference value)		 kt-CO2 247.48 193.72 191.49 － －
Scope3 (total) kt-CO2 235.08 181.01 178.33 － －
1. Purchased goods and services kt-CO2 56.03 44.63 45.38 *１ Calculated by multiplying the purchase amount by the emissions intensity.
2. Capital goods kt-CO2 7.80 5.80 17.34 *２ Calculated by multiplying the capital investment by the emission intensity of our industry sector.
3. Fuel and energy related kt-CO2 2.54 2.64 2.66 *１ Calculated by multiplying the amount of energy purchased by the emissions intensity.
4. Transportation and distribution (upstream) kt-CO2 0.11 0.04 0.04 *１ Calculated for transportation of products within the country of production: transported weight x distance x emissions intensity. (However, transportation of purchased products and services was calculated in Category 1.)
5. Waste generated in operations kt-CO2 0.31 0.30 0.25 *１ Calculated by multiplying the amount of waste by the emissions intensity by type, taking transportation into account.
6. Business travel kt-CO2 0.57 0.99 1.17 *１ Non-Consolidated: calculated by multiplying the amount of transportation expenses paid by the emissions intensity of each means of transportation.
Group companies: calculated by multiplying the number of employees by the emissions intensity.
7. Employee commuting kt-CO2 0.54 0.58 0.68 *１ Calculated by multiplying the number of employees and the number of business days by the emissions intensity for each city category.
8. Leased assets (upstream) kt-CO2         Calculated within Scope 1 and 2.
9. Transportation and distribution (downstream) kt-CO2 7.52 0.82 1.22 *３ Calculated for transportation of products excluding Category 4: transportation weight x distance x emissions intensity.
10. Processing of sold products kt-CO2         Not applicable
11. Use of sold products kt-CO2 159.64 125.19 109.57 *３ Calculated by estimating and setting annual power consumption and product life for each product type sold, and multiplying by the CO2 emission factors.
12. End-of-life treatment of sold products kt-CO2 0.05 0.02 0.02 *３ Calculated by multiplying the weight of products sold by the emissions intensity by waste type and treatment method.
13. Leased assets (downstream) kt-CO2         Not applicable
14. Franchises kt-CO2         Not applicable
15. Investments kt-CO2         Not applicable

 Scope3： All other indirect emissions occurring in the company’s value chain, excluding Scope 1 and 2

*1 Production Bases (From FY2023, two additional sites, TOWA FINE (Korea, made a subsidiary in 2022) and TOWA TOOL (Malaysia, made a subsidiary in 2023), have been added.)
     Japan: Headquarters/ Factory, Kyoto East Plant, Kyushu Work, BANDICK Corporation, TOWA LASERFRONT Corporation
     Overseas: TOWA Korea Co., Ltd., TOWAM Sdn. Bhd., TOWA (Suzhou) Co., Ltd., TOWA (Nantong) Co., Ltd.,
                    TOWA FINE CO., LTD., TOWA TOOL SDN. BHD.
*2 Consolidated
*3 Products sold in the semiconductor business and laser processing machine business

Emission intensities refer to values from the following databases.
     Ministry of the Environment “Emission intensity database for calculating GHG emissions, etc. of organizations through the supply chain”
     National Institute for Environmental Studies “Embodied Energy and Emission Intensity Data for Japan Using Input-Output Tables (3EID)”
     Sustainable Management Promotion Organization “IDEAv2.3(For calculating supply chain GHG emissions)”

 

Electricity consumption

Items Unit Achievements
FY2020 FY2021 FY2022 FY2023 FY2024
Electricity consumption of the entire TOWA Group MWh 32,357 37,527 39,792 43,048 43,324
(Japan)
   Total electricity consumption		 MWh 17,066 18,085 19,920 20,652 20,846
   Solar power generation MWh 0 4 451 582 575
   Amount of renewable energy purchased MWh 0 10,342 14,406 14,288 14,153
(Overseas)
   Total electricity consumption		 MWh 15,291 19,442 19,871 22,396 22,478
   Solar power generation MWh 0 497 3,592 4,984 4,806
   Amount of renewable energy purchased MWh 0 0 0 0 0
Ratio of renewable energy in electricity consumption
   (TOWA Group Total)		 % 0% 28.9% 46.4% 46.1% 45.1%
   (Japan) % 0% 57.2% 74.6% 72.0% 70.7%
   (Overseas) % 0% 2.6% 18.1% 22.3% 21.4%

  From FY2023, two additional sites, TOWA FINE (Korea, made a subsidiary in 2022) and TOWA TOOL (Malaysia, made a subsidiary in 2023), have been added.
  (Japan) is the total of 5 production bases including group companies, and (Overseas) is the total of 6 production bases of group companies.
    Japan: Headquarters/ Factory, Kyoto East Plant, Kyushu Work, BANDICK Corporation, TOWA LASERFRONT Corporation
    Overseas: TOWA Korea Co., Ltd., TOWAM Sdn. Bhd., TOWA (Suzhou) Co., Ltd., TOWA (Nantong) Co., Ltd.,
                   TOWA FINE CO., LTD., TOWA TOOL SDN. BHD.

 

Water intake

Items Unit Achievements
FY2020 FY2021 FY2022 FY2023 FY2024
Water from general municipal water
supplies and industrial water (Japan)		 thousand m3 15.68 16.29 24.06 24.42 21.68
Groundwater and rainwater intake (Japan) thousand m3 7.23 7.08 6.74 7.09 6.86
Water from general municipal water
supplies and industrial water (Overseas)		 thousand m3 39.15 52.35 58.53 65.49 59.07
Groundwater and rainwater intake (Overseas) thousand m3 0 0 0 0 0
Total water intake thousand m3 62.07 75.71 89.33 97.00 87.61
Total water intake relative to sales m3/million yen 2.09 1.49 1.66 1.92 1.64

  From FY2023, two additional sites, TOWA FINE (Korea, made a subsidiary in 2022) and TOWA TOOL (Malaysia, made a subsidiary in 2023), have been added.
  (Japan) is the total of 5 production bases including group companies, and (Overseas) is the total of 6 production bases of group companies.
    Japan: Headquarters/ Factory, Kyoto East Plant, Kyushu Work, BANDICK Corporation, TOWA LASERFRONT Corporation
    Overseas: TOWA Korea Co., Ltd., TOWAM Sdn. Bhd., TOWA (Suzhou) Co., Ltd., TOWA (Nantong) Co., Ltd.,
                   TOWA FINE CO., LTD., TOWA TOOL SDN. BHD.
  Water intake in TOWAM has been added back to FY2018 and the figures have been revised.
  There is no direct intake of fresh water from rivers or lakes in Japan or Overseas.

 

Social

Items Unit Achievements
FY2020 FY2021 FY2022 FY2023 FY2024
Number of consolidated employees*1 person 1,633 1,817 1,876 1,985 2,099
Number of TOWA employees*1 person 549 573 597 623 681
Percentage of non-regular employment *2*7 % 7.18 11.08 11.48 14.30 15.17
Percentage of employees with disabilities*3*7 % 2.29 2.22 2.13 2.00 2.01
Percentage of female employees*1*7 % 13.83 13.96 14.40 15.68 17.26
Turnover rate of regular employees*4*7 % 3.29 2.88 4.47 4.60 3.02
Total education and training time*5 hours 9,802 10,178 11,498 7,269 7,068
Total education and training time per employee*5 hours 17.23 16.47 19.26 11.67 10.38
Education and training costs*6 thousand yen 5,842 11,930 14,290 20,053 31,394
Total annual working hours per employee*7*8 hours 2,042 2,023 2,119 2,079 1,967
Number of days of annual paid leave taken*7*9 days/year 7.5 11.0 12.5 12.4 10.6

*1 Calculated the total number of permanent employees and fixed-term contract employees as of the end of the fiscal year.
*2 Calculated the total number of fixed-term employees as of the end of the fiscal year (fixed-term contract employee, part-time worker, subcontract worker).
*3 Calculated by actual employment rate throughout the year.
*4 Calculated by the number of retired employees by the end of the fiscal year ÷ the number of employees at the beginning of the year x 100. (not included employees who retired at the mandatory retirement age)
*5 Totaled only the common training hours of TOWA employees.
*6 For TOWA employees.
*7 Calculated by TOWA employees
*8 Excluding retired employees, employees on leave, and seconded employees.
*9 Including seconded employees.
Figures for “Education and training costs” for FY2023 has been revised.

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