Water Conservation through Production Activities

By collecting, treating, and reusing waste water from our manufacturing processes and air conditioning systems, we reduce the amount of water use and wastewater effluent. This reduces the impact of the intake and effluent of water in production activities on water resources. With many regions around the world threatened by water shortages, we carefully select which regions to focus on to address our use of water in our manufacturing activities.

Panasonic Electronic Devices (Tianjin) Co., Ltd. installed a highly efficient wastewater reuse system within its wastewater treatment process, and has since been promoting the reuse of industrial water and domestic water in its factory as industrial water and for watering plants. As a result, the company reduced the use of water by 48,500 tons year on year in fiscal 2011, which is equivalent to the amount of water from 123 25-meter pools.

Panasonic will continue to reduce its water use despite increasing production volumes, foster increased water recycling, and reduce water usage at more of its factories in Asia and across the world. Especially in priority regions, we will enhance the necessary measures and will also designate some of our facilities as model factories for water saving across the Group.