Material Balance and Environmental Accounting
Material Balance
Kyowa Kirin Group strives to reduce its environmental impacts. The following shows an overview of environmental impacts in fiscal 2020 imposed by our plants and research laboratories.

- *Due to rounding, some totals may not correspond with the sum of the breakdown.
Environmental Accounting
Kyowa Kirin Group identifies how much investment was made in environmental protection and the economic effects in quantitative terms. In 2020, total investment and total costs amounted to 430 million yen and 783 million yen, respectively. At the new plant building constructed in the course of reorganizing plants and research laboratories, environmentally friendly facilities were installed, including highly energy-efficient equipment. The economic effect generated by recycling waste (as valuable resources) and saving energy amounted to approximately 22 million yen.
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Cost classification | FY2020 | FY2019 | FY2018 | ||||
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Investment | Expense | Investment | Expense | Investment | Expense | ||
(1) Business area cost | 423 | 587 | 340 | 546 | 149 | 595 | |
Details | (1)-1 Pollution prevention cost | 106 | 284 | 129 | 313 | 32 | 353 |
(1)-2 Global environment conservation cost | 313 | 92 | 207 | 63 | 116 | 66 | |
(1)-3 Resource circulation cost | 5 | 211 | 4 | 169 | 1 | 176 | |
(2) Upstream/downstream cost | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
(3) Administration cost | 7 | 195 | 32 | 189 | 4 | 177 | |
(4) R&D cost | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
(5) Social activity cost | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
(6) Environmental remediation cost | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Total | 430 | 783 | 372 | 783 | 153 | 777 |
(Millions of yen)
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Item | Activities | FY2020 | FY2019 | FY2018 |
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Total investment | Expansion and rationalization of production and research facilities | 13,876 | 9,733 |
3,979 |
Total R&D cost | R&D for new products and technologies | 50,301 | 24,145 |
43,215 |
Sales of valuables in connection with (1)-3 and (2) | Sale of dried fungus fertilizer, used catalysts, and by-product oil | 5 | 12 | 13 |
Resource-saving effects in connection with (1)-2 and (1)-3 | Energy and resource conservation and waste reduction | 17 | 20 | 6 |
(Millions of yen)
- *1:Calculated based on "Environmental Accounting Guidelines 2005 (Ministry of the Environment)".
- *2:Due to rounding, some totals may not correspond with the sum of the breakdown.