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Green Procurement

Green procurement

Preferential selection and procurement of products with low environmental impact

To provide environmentally friendly products and services to our customers, the azbil Group, in its procurement of raw materials and parts for products, other materials, services, etc., practices green procurement that preferentially selects environmentally friendly products that help to prevent global warming, to recycle resources, and to preserve biodiversity. We ask our business partners, too, to strive to reduce environmental impact by meeting environmental management standards, etc.

The azbil Group’s Green Procurement Standard for Suppliers   Eighh edition, issued in April, 2022

The azbil Group’s Green Procurement Evaluation Sheet   Fifth edition

Management of Chemical Substances in Products

Reduction of hazardous chemical substances in products

To prevent environmental contamination from hazardous chemical substances contained in our products, the azbil Group endeavors to reduce these substances in targeted products. To support our efforts, we have established “Guidelines for the Construction of Chemical Substance Management Systems,” and we ask for the understanding and cooperation of our business partners in striving to reduce hazardous chemical substances contained in targeted products throughout the supply chain.

The azbil Group’s Guidelines for the Establishment of Chemical Substance Management Systems   Third edition, issued in March, 2022

Standards for Hazardous Substances Contained in Products   Ver. 14.1, issued in September, 2025

Preservation of Biodiversity

Consideration of preservation of biodiversity

While carrying out business activities that benefit from the blessings of nature, we of the azbil Group recognize that our activities have various effects on the ecosystem. Accordingly, we participate in biodiversity initiatives as a partner in Nippon Keidanren’s1 Declaration of Biodiversity.2 The Declaration calls upon companies to conduct biodiversity preservation activity not only on their own, but to “collaborate with relevant international and national organizations,” a strategy that we pursue with our business partners.

  1. Nippon Keidanren is the Japan Business Federation, an organization formed with the objective of putting forth proposals from industry for Japan’s economic policies.
  2. Keidanren announced its Declaration of Biodiversity in the spring of 2009. With that as a basis, the Keidanren Committee on Nature Conservation assembled rules and guidelines for promoting biodiversity into a “Guide to Action Policy,” which details the objectives (reasons) for the seven actions enjoined by the Declaration, as well as points to consider and sample activities, in easily understood form. Moreover, the Keidanren Committee on Nature Conservation calls for companies that agree with the gist of the Declaration of Biodiversity and that announce activities contributing to the preservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, to cooperate as Declaration of Biodiversity partners, of which Azbil Corporation is one.

A Request from the azbil Group Regarding Biodiversity Preservation   issued in February, 2017