The production of our core products—gelatin and collagen peptides—requires significant amounts of energy and water. While promoting recycling, we are working to use energy more efficiently and to reduce CO₂ emissions and the use of water resources.
In addition, dicalcium phosphate (DCP), a by-product of bovine bone gelatin, has been found—through joint research in recent years with the National Institute of Technology, Toyama College—to fix fluorine contained in water and soil, preventing excess fluorine from leaching into the environment.
By leveraging our unique technologies, we aim to contribute to society by offering new methods of environmental improvement.
In fiscal 2025, total CO₂ emissions for the entire Osaka Plant were 18.3 thousand tons. Although this represents a slight decrease from the previous fiscal year's result of 18.4 thousand tons, we fell short of our annual target. This was primarily driven by operational fluctuations in certain production facilities and an increased energy load due to rising summer temperatures.
In addition to continuously improving productivity and promoting energy conservation, we will further accelerate our efforts toward achieving our reduction targets for fiscal 2030.
In fiscal 2025, manufacturing energy intensity stood at 1.88 kL/t, falling short of our target. As with our CO₂ emissions, maintaining energy efficiency remained a challenge, primarily due to operational fluctuations in certain production facilities and an increased energy load caused by rising temperatures.
In fiscal 2026, we will rebuild our energy consumption optimization framework and drive energy-saving initiatives through stable equipment operation and rigorous, efficient operational management.
Large amounts of water are used in the gelatin manufacturing process. In addition, to maintain and improve quality, a significant amount of water is needed for cleaning equipment. In fiscal 2025, due in part to operational fluctuations in certain production facilities, our water intake reached 1,106 thousand ㎥, and our water intake intensity was 173.2 ㎥/t, falling short of our targets.
While maintaining our high standards of product quality, we will continue to strengthen our initiatives to reduce water intake and promote water recycling.
In fiscal 2025, our total waste volume was 2.4 thousand tons, representing a significant reduction from the previous fiscal year's result of 3.0 thousand tons. This success was primarily driven by the stable operation of upgraded equipment designed to reduce sludge in the wastewater treatment process.
Looking ahead, while maintaining our high recycling rate, we aim to further reduce waste generation by ensuring thorough waste separation and collection practices.
In fiscal 2025, our copy paper consumption was 1.2 tons, achieving a further reduction from the previous fiscal year's result of 1.4 tons and successfully meeting our target. This milestone was achieved through active efforts to promote paperless operations and digitization of business processes across all departments.
We will continue our efforts to conserve paper resources by driving company-wide digitization and further optimizing our workflows.
DCP is a by-product of processing bovine bones into gelatin raw materials.
Our DCPs have been found to efficiently insolubilize and stabilize fluorine. This makes it effective as a fluorine fixative in soil and wastewater (joint research with the National Institute of Technology, Toyama College).
When our DCPs are used for treating wastewater and soil, fluorine, a common soil and water pollutant, can be efficiently insolubilized and stabilized, and then removed.
