Building a Recycling-Oriented Society

Plan and Results

Vision for 2030 and Medium-Term Plan 2025

Vision for 2030: Promote the effective use of resources at Konica Minolta, while also helping corporate clients and suppliers to achieve effective use.

Related SDGs:

Themes		Indicators	Results				Targets
			FY 2020	FY 2021	FY 2022	FY 2023	FY 2023	FY 2024	FY 2025
Effective Use of Resources by Transforming Customer Business Processes		Social and environmental value Reduction of waste discharge of customers (thousand tons)	320	320	340	360	360	380	400
		Economic value Solution sales (billion yen)	53.0	59.9	79.3	83.6	89.0	97.0	100.0
Effective Use of Resources Relating to Konica Minolta Sites, Suppliers, Products and Services	Reductions to environmental impact from Konica Minolta production sites*1	Social and environmental value Reduction of waste discharge of customers (thousand tons)	0.6	1.3	1.7	1.6	0.2	1.6	1.7
		Economic value Monetary equivalent of waste reductions (million yen)	130	260	470	610	-	650	670
	Reduction of environmental impact through the use of Konica Minolta products and services	Social and environmental value Amount of resources saved and recycled (thousand tons)	12	12	12	13	13	14	14
		Of which, circulated resources (recycled and bio-materials) utilization rate (thousand tons)	-	-	-	10	10	11	11
		Economic value Green Products*3 Sales (billion yen)	676	597	776.6	772.8	-	-	735

Note:

Targets and results have been revised retrospectively to fiscal 2020 figures as the method of calculating the effects of measures was changed in fiscal 2021. Targets for FY2024 and FY2025 have been revised based on FY2023 results.

*1

Cumulative reductions are calculated for each medium-term business plan period from FY2020 - FY2022 and FY2023 - FY2025. The reduction effects of measures implemented from the first fiscal year of each period to the relevant fiscal year are summed up for each fiscal year.

*2

Targets set for activities to reduce and recycle waste from products that use plastic based on the Act on Promotion of Resource Circulation for Plastics enacted in Japan, which include the reduction of plastic waste at major sites in Japan.

*3

Green Products: Name changed from Sustainable Solutions in FY2023. The Company will define and certify solutions that contribute to solving social and environmental issues, leading to expansion of sales.

Plan

In its medium-term plan through 2025, Konica Minolta has set KPIs for “emissions reduced by transforming customer business processes with Konica Minolta solutions,” “emissions reduced from Konica Minolta’s manufacturing processes,” and “resources effectively used in Konica Minolta products and services,” and is working to achieve them.
As for the effective use of resources of customers, Konica Minolta expects to reduce emissions by reducing the use of printing plates, test printing, and other resources by promoting the change from analog to digital printing in the industrial printing industry.
Konica Minolta expects to reduce emissions at its own production sites by pursuing productivity improvements and reducing secondary material use. To increase the resources effectively used in its products, the Company will use small, lightweight, and recycled materials.

Results

In fiscal 2023, regarding the Effective Use of Resources by Transforming Customer Business Processes, the introduction of our mainstay commercial and industrial printing presses to our customers resulted in the effective use of resources as planned.
In terms of “emissions reduced from Konica Minolta’s manufacturing processes,” the measures we took to improve product yield rates in production were more effective than expected, and the target was achieved significantly ahead of plan.
The “resources effectively used in Konica Minolta products and services” were in accordance with plan due to the expansion of resource-saving products and the increased use of recycled resources.
In particular, the amount of recycled resources input increased to 10,000 tons in fiscal 2023. We plan to increase the proportion of recycled materials and bio-materials in input resources to 11,000 tons by fiscal 2025.