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Konica Minolta Mechatronics Becomes the Group’s First Site in Japan to Earn RBA Platinum Recognition in the Corporate Social Responsibility Audit
December 12, 2024
Tokyo (December 12, 2024) - Konica Minolta, Inc. (Konica Minolta) announced that, the head office plant of Konica Minolta Mechatronics Co., Ltd. (Konica Minolta Mechatronics), where it produces digital printing systems in Japan, earned Platinum recognition, which is the highest level in the corporate social responsibility audit by the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA).
The RBA is made up of about 250 companies, including electronic device manufacturers around the world, and aims to improve labor, safety and health, the environment, and ethics in the global supply chain. Konica Minolta joined the RBA in 2013 and has conducted various activities as a member.
The RBA operates the Validated Assessment Program (VAP) to evaluate such activities, and ranks companies into three levels: Platinum, Gold, and Silver.
All global production sites of MFPs (multi-functional peripherals) and digital printing systems, excluding toner production sites, of the Konica Minolta Group have now earned the RBA recognition.
Konica Minolta Mechatronics produces digital printing systems, which are the main products of Konica Minolta, and key devices related to imaging, optics, and precision technologies. It continues to create opportunities for transforming production by realizing “production DX” through the combination of production technologies, which have been refined in the production and assembly of key devices, and on-site capabilities, which are based on skills, with digital solutions, including automation of production lines.
Konica Minolta Mechatronics provides both a safe and healthy workplace environment and a continuous supply of quality products that meet the needs of customers and the market by formulating quality, environment, industrial safety and health, and information security policies and by establishing a quality assurance system based on the ISO management system under these policies. It has also been taking environmental protection initiatives. Having installed a solar power generation system*1 at its head office in 2021, it attained the goal of procuring 100%*2 of the electricity it uses from renewable sources in 2024. Konica Minolta Mechatronics earned the Platinum recognition from the RBA for meeting the RBA Code of Conduct in terms of labor, safety and health, the environment, and ethics at the highest levels.
Konica Minolta’s Efforts in CSR Procurement
Konica Minolta has been building a supply chain that takes labor, health and safety, the environment and ethics into account. Its CSR Procurement Promotion Program involves its group production sites and suppliers.
Konica Minolta established the Konica Minolta Supply Chain Code for Conduct based in the RBA Code of Conduct and requests suppliers to work on CSR activities. The Company conducts CSR assessments on key suppliers to check the degree to which the code of conduct is implemented. Suppliers who fail to meet the targets based on the results of this assessment are requested to make improvements. CSR audits are conducted on particularly important suppliers and suppliers that still fail to meet the targets after making improvements.
For issues identified through CSR assessments and CSR audits, Konica Minolta directly helps suppliers make improvements. The Company carries out the CSR Procurement Promotion Program so that suppliers can eventually take a proactive approach to work on CSR activities.
Konica Minolta endeavors to improve the overall quality of its CSR activities across its supply chain in line with social needs and will practice high-quality manufacturing and implement CSR-based production activities as a manufacturer.
*1: Using a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA)
*2: Ratio of electricity derived from renewable energy