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our products throughout their life cycles, it is necessary to cooperate with suppliers.
Honda, in order to procure environment-friendly materials and products, established
the Honda Green Purchasing Guidelines and held a number of meetings to
explain the guidelines to suppliers. We are thus implementing effective measures
to promote green purchasing, which means to choose environment-friendly products
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One single automobile is composed of 20,000 to 30,000 parts,
most of which are purchased from suppliers. To reduce the environmental impact
caused by the manufacturing of automobiles, it is therefore necessary for automobile
makers and their suppliers to cooperate with each other. Honda asks its suppliers
to introduce ISO 14001-certified environmental management systems. So far, 55
major suppliers have already acquired this certification. In fiscal 2002, all factories (or plants) of suppliers, providing materials to or manufacturing products for Honda, began working to acquire ISO 14001. As of the end of March 2007, 403 companies, which account for approximately 98% of all Honda suppliers, had acquired the certification. |
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Honda set its green purchasing guidelines to aggressively promote
the green procurement of materials and parts in December 2001. The guidelines
provide details of the specific management items and targets to be dealt with
by Honda and its suppliers toward 2010, for the three fields as shown in the
table. We will continue to ask our suppliers to manage and disclose
data on environmental impacts and will continue to purchase environment-friendly
materials and parts. |
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Most molds used for manufacturing parts are made of iron, and end-of-life molds are recycled. CO2 emissions from manufacturing molds using recycled iron are said to be about one-fourth of those from manufacturing molds using iron ore as raw material. Therefore, recycling of end-of-life molds should be actively promoted. For many old molds, however, it is difficult to determine when to dispose of them as they may be needed to manufacture various repair parts. Since fiscal 2002, Honda has provided its suppliers with information on repair parts and the criteria for disposing of molds to help them recycle old molds according to standardized procedures. In fiscal 2006, a total of 11,899 molds, weighing approximately 1,660 tons, were recycled. |
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