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Ever since HOEI was founded, we have been striving to “Keep the Blue Earth” and improve our technology to use our limited resources effectively.
We can say that we have been practicing SDGs for a long time.

HOEI’s current initiatives for each SDGs goal are introduced below.

What are SDGs?

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a collection of 17 goals.
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HOEI gives Christmas presents to children in local children’s homes every holiday season.

Our former employees grow vegetables at our welfare facilities to practice local production for local consumption.

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry awarded HOEI the Health & Productivity Management Organization certification to recognize our initiatives to promote employee health.
The administration organizes health checkups, and our cafeteria provides meal subsidies for our employees.

In addition to new employee training, each department promotes specialized training and qualification acquisition.

Our employees are encouraged to take childcare leave.
Aluminum ingots are available in a 3 kg or smaller size that is easy for women or elderly workers to handle enabling anyone to work in ingot production regardless of gender.
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To ensure that the water discharged from our plants is treated safely, we comply with agreements on pollution prevention, perform regular maintenance of the wastewater treatment tanks, and maintain oil separation tanks and sewage separation tanks.
Each department manages its energy and actively introduces production equipment with higher energy efficiency.

Our Business Department has been telecommuting.
We strive to create a comfortable environment at our facilities.

We are improving our business duties with Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
The HOEI Technology Center is constantly developing new products and new technologies.

We are promoting the establishment of a fair personnel system.

We have enacted a Business Continuation Plan (BCP) in the company to minimize damage in a disaster. We also cooperate with the community residents living near our plants.

HOEI has various recycling technologies for ferrous and non-ferrous metals that we are responsible for using. Our vacuum heating system recovers zinc of high purity and iron from galvanized steel sheets. We even use cutting scraps when refining molten aluminum and ingots to ensure that no resource material is wasted. Non-standard iron scraps are also processed and reused.

Carbon dioxide emissions are said to have a significant impact on climate change. HOEI has implemented low-energy equipment to reduce carbon dioxide emissions at our facilities. As for aluminum ingots, we have increased the waste heat recovery rate of our customers’ tower melting furnaces, contributing to improved energy efficiency. In other areas, we have introduced PHVs for our sales vehicles and battery-powered forklifts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions during travel. In addition, all of our plants have acquired ISO 14001 certification.

As concerns of marine contamination by plastics rise, HOEI CHEMICAL, our group company, has started collecting plastic waste from industrial waste and using it as a raw material to manufacture IPB, a fueling agent. This technology was awarded the Bronze Award of the 2021 Aichi Environmental Award.
※HOEI CHEMICAL Co., Ltd. http://www.hoei-kagaku.co.jp/
Our company is also working on oil-water separation.

We are promoting digitalization of in-house documents to eliminate the excessive use of paper resources.

HOEI thoroughly complies with laws and regulations, company rules, and departmental rules.

HOEI is involved in industry-academia collaboration with universities on research aimed at resource regeneration.
We actively work together as leaders to resolve problems related to resources.

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