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Commitment to CSR

Working with Business Partners

With a view to building mutually beneficial relationships with our business partners, we work together as a group to complete projects that contribute to society.

Strengthening Cooperation with Partners

Amid ongoing changes in the business environment including the growing size of plants, increasing sophistication of equipment and demands for earlier project completion, it is becoming increasingly important to select the best suppliers and supervise their work using our quality management systems. To maintain mutually beneficial relationships in procurement, the Chiyoda Group requests business partners to cooperate in the following areas.

  1. Compliance with laws, regulations and ethical guidelines
  2. Environmental conservation
    • Establishment of ISO14001-compliant environmental management systems
    • Acquisition of external certifications
    • Reduction of the use of hazardous chemicals
    • Promotion of Green Procurement*
  3. On-schedule delivery
  4. Continuous sound management of business operations
  5. Technological improvements
  6. Appropriate quality management
    Further, we take special care to promote the following.
    1. Education about and strict compliance with relevant laws and regulations, including the Antimonopoly Act and the Subcontractor Act regarding fair transactions with subcontractors
    2. Create and nurture better partnerships with business partners, based on mutual understanding and trust

 

Green Procurement

Training in welding a reactor vessel

Training in welding a reactor vessel

The Chiyoda Group's Corporate Environmental Policy is to optimize consumption of resources and energy in order to provide customers with facilities, machinery and equipment that has no significant environmental impact. As part of this policy, we promote Green Procurement. Specifically, we have established green procurement promotion guidelines based on the Ministry of Environment policy regarding promotion of procuring environmentally friendly items, and have been making efforts to familiarize personnel inside and outside our organization with these guidelines since 2006.

The following are the major examples of our activities:

1. Green Procurement Questionnaires to Suppliers/Manufacturers
In connection with "Green Procurement Promotion Guidelines", following the 2008 survey on 215 companies in Japan, we conducted the 2009 survey on 50 companies in Japan and compiled the results. We have analyzed those responses in order to incorporate them in our procurement activities, fulfilling our social responsibilities to the stakeholders of our corporate group companies.

2. Thorough Energy Conservation Efforts in Logistics
During the construction period of 3 years and 3 months for the ultra-large scale LNG plants in Qatar, we have procured 2.5 million freight tons (equivalent of the volume of two Tokyo Domes) of equipment and materials from over 20 countries and transported them to the construction sites. We shared the logistics information among these projects and ensured that the cargoes were consolidated and vessels were shared. As a result we could successfully minimize the number of vessels, not only reducing the transportation costs but also greatly contributing to the reduction of CO2 emission by cutting down the amount of energy consumption.

* Green Procurement: The procurement activities in which ecologically correct equipment and materials are prioritized.