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Air Pollution and Water Pollution Prevention Activities (Details)

 Ozone Layer Protection
In addition to the materials regulated by the Montreal Protocol, Kyocera eliminated other chlorine solvents. As a result, CFCs and other Freons®, carbon tetrachloride, 1,1,1-trichloroethane and halons were completely eliminated in 1992. The new specified control substances of methyl bromide and bromochloromethane were also completely eliminated. For chlorine solvents other than specified control substances such as trichloroethylene, tetrachloroethylene and dichloromethane were also voluntarily eliminated by 2000.

Image:Ozone Layer Protection

 Installation of Cyanogen Wastewater Closed Treatment Facility
Shanghai KYOCERA Electronics Co., Ltd. in China treats cyanogen wastewater in its newly installed plating process line with ion-exchange resin and reverse osmosis membrane equipment for water recycling during production processes.

Photo:Installation of Cyanogen Wastewater Closed Treatment Facility 1 Photo:Installation of Cyanogen Wastewater Closed Treatment Facility 2

 Building a 100% Recycling System for Discharged Water by Removing Lead
Wastewater containing discharged lead from the Kagoshima Kokubu plant is reduced through a treatment process to less than the detected lower limit, and is then completely recycled using installed equipment.

Image:100% recycling system for discharged water by removing lead.  Outline of equipment: System based on the bio-treatment method + chelate resin + ion exchange method (Recycled water to be treated by the vacuum concentration equipment) Z„Lead discharged: Zero discharged into water Z„Recycled water: 84 m3/day

Photo:Building a 100% recycling system for lead discharged 1 Photo:Building a 100% recycling system for lead discharged 2

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