CSR & Environment

Reducing environmental impacts through our products
* Calculated with the assumption that all CO2 reductions in products and processes that use Sumitomo Metals steel are the result of our company's products.

Products making contributions in the energy field

Products from the Sumitomo Metals Group in the energy field are increasing the efficiency, reducing weights, and extending lifetimes of equipment, achieving benefits in terms of conserving resources, conserving energy, and reducing CO2 emissions, thus helping to reduce environmental impacts.

Products making contributions in the transportation field

Products from the Sumitomo Metals Group in the transportation field are increasing the efficiency, reducing weight, and extending the lifetime of equipment, achieving benefits in terms of conserving resources, conserving energy, and reducing CO2 emissions, thus helping to reduce environmental impacts.

Products making contributions in the household field

Products from the Sumitomo Metals Group in the household field are increasing the efficiency, reducing weight, and extending the lifetime of equipment, achieving benefits in terms of conserving resources, conserving energy, and reducing CO2 emissions, thus helping to reduce environmental impacts.

Sumitomo Metals' Four Actions for a Better Environment

  • Reducing the environmetal impact of our production processesReduce CO2 emissions from energy sources by 8.7% from 1990 levels.
  • Reducing environmeutal impacts through our productsContribute to reducing 220 million tons of CO2 emissions worldwide
  •  Invent a new steelmaking technology that is revolutionaryDevelop future technologies that will deliver dramatic reductions in environmental impacts.
  • Transfer technologies overseas to make steel more eco-friendlyUtilize the environmental technologies of the Sumitomo Metals Group around the world.

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