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Access Eco Business Development By Car Hagiwara-kita Center ● Exit the Tomei Expressway at Gotemba IC and take R138 in the 138 direction of . Turn left at R246 crossing and drive towards Numazu. Turn right at Yabai crossing to Komakado Industrial Estate. Gotemba IC JR Gotemba Station ● Exit the Tomei Expressway at Susono IC and take R246 bypass route For Zero-carbon Society towards . Turn left at Komakado-Kazaana crossing to Komakado Industrial Estate. 246 and Circular Economy

Yabai JR Minami-gotemba Station

246 Yabai

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Tomei Expressway JR Fujioka Station Tomei Expressway

Komakado- JR kazaana

RICOH Eco Business Development Komakado- Center kazaana Susono IC

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JR Mishima Approx. forty minutes by taxi Station JR Tokaido Shinkansen Line JR Numazu JR Fujioka JR Tokaido Line Station Station Five minutes Approx. Approx. on JR Tokaido Line thirty–thirty five five–ten minutes minutes on Approx. by taxi RICOH JR Gotemba Line six–seven minutes (No taxi rank at on JR Gotemba the station. Call Eco Line by phone) JR Odawara Business Station Development JR Tokaido JR Kozu JR Gotemba Station Station Shinkansen Line Seven minutes Approx. Approx. Center JR Tokaido Line on JR Tokaido Line fifty–sixty minutes fifteen–twenty on JR Gotemba minutes by taxi Odakyu Odawara Line (Mt. Fuji Exit) Station Odakyu JR Matsuda Approx. Shinmatsuda Station Approx. forty–fifty minutes to JR Fujioka Station ten–fifteen minutes Station Approx. thirty–forty minutes to JR Gotemba Station on Odakyu Line on JR Gotemba Line Approx. one minute on foot

RICOH Eco Business Development Center 1-10 Komakado, Gotemba City, Shizuoka Pref. 412-0038 Japan http://www.ricoh.com/environment/eco_business_center Building a Friendly Future for People Three Functions of and Society through Eco Businesses RICOH Eco Business Development Center

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It is in keeping with our embrace of the related business. United Nations' Sustainable Development We have long been working tirelessly Environmental Communications Goals (SDGs) that we are accelerating under the concept of sustainable our drive to help materialize sustainability environmental management, whereby for societies around the world. Helping environmental preservation is pursued to resolve social issues through business simultaneously with profit making. We is vital to corporate prosperity, and have further refined this concept to pursue companies that fail to help bring SDGs “sustainable environmental management to fruition can never survive. With that evolves together with our customers this awareness, the Ricoh Group is and business partners.” In addition to endeavoring to enhance our businesses routinely offering eco-friendly products, and management from financial and ESG’s we will also focus on eco business across (Environmental, Social and Governance) an expansive area extending beyond perspectives. conventional business domains, working We have specified five issues of materiality together with our customers, business President and CEO — key social challenges — for attaining partners, investors, and various parties in Ricoh Co., Ltd. SDGs through our operations. We hope the local community. Yoshinori Yamashita to become essential to each and every The RICOH Eco Business Development stakeholder, such as customers, business Center will play a leading role in addressing partners and investors, by contributing the five material issues, focusing to better tomorrows in the communities particularly on Zero-carbon Society and around the globe that we are privileged to Circular Economy, thereby helping the serve. Ricoh Group to attain the SDGs. We look The RICOH Eco Business Development forward to welcoming you at the Center Center is built on the site of the previous and appreciate your kind support and Ricoh Gotemba Plant, which was originally cooperation in helping us to create new eco Eco Bldg. established in 1985 to produce mainly business through open innovation under Floor Map 3F M4F photocopiers and printers. It was out of joint collaboration among industry, public

operation from 2013 until it was renovated institution and academia. Feasibility Study Index into a center for the development of eco-

Feasibility Study Area Reuse Recycle 2F M3F Center Five material issues and SDGs Passageway

The Comet Circle Ricoh’s materiality Prosperity

DECENT WORK IND U S T RY, Seminar Room Intelligence Creation AND ECONOMIC INNOVATION AND GROWTH INFRASTRUCTURE Productivity Enhancement Intelligence QOL Enhancement Creation Zero-carbon Society Productivity 5F Circular Economy Enhancement Presentation Room

People Planet Future Bldg. Eco Bldg. Waste Plastic Oiling Lab Workshop Room

Collaboration Section 2F GOOD HEALTH QUALITY SUSTAINABLE Zero-carbon Society AFFORDABLE AND RESPONSIBLE CLIMATE AND WELL-BEING EDUCATION CITIES AND QOL Enhancement CLEAN ENERGY CONSUMPTION ACTION COMMUNITIES AND PRODUCTION Theater R Circular Economy

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Future Bldg. Woody biomass energy plant 1 2

山路を登りながら Giving Shape to Eco Technologies Energy Creation Create Woody biomass utilization Local-production-for-local-use model covering a range of processes for the Future from deliberate tree thinning to generating energy from it Collaborating with the local government and forestry companies, we have simulta- Feasibility Studies of New Environmental Technologies neously achieved forest management, CO2 Wins 2017 emissions reduction and energy creation. We will create a recycling model for woody Environment Minister’s Award biomass energy that utilizes unused thinned for Global Warming Prevention Activity wood in Gotemba, and will introduce this Countermeasures Technology Introduction "Gotemba model" across the country to and Dissemination Category contribute to regional revitalization. * Theme : Introduction and dissemination of biomass boilers in collaboration with local governments Optimizing district energy use to realize a zero-carbon society Micro hydroelectric power generation Energy-harvesting lighting devices Ricoh has established the “Group’s Environmental and buildings, while also beginning to expand the tar- Power generation system Complete solid-state dye-sensitized solar cell Goals” for 2050 based on the Paris Agreement, interna- get of these projects to cover the entire district, seeking that utilizes water flows in various locations with high conversion rate even from indoor lighting tional agreement adopted at COP 21 to address the issue to optimize energy use as a whole. A micro hydroelectric power generation sys- We produce a safe and durable solar cell of global warming, and conducts business activities Our plan is to build a system that monitors energy demand tem utilizes numerous water flows that exist that enables stable and permanent opera- to be able to achieve the goals. Also, Ricoh has joined for each facility in the district in terms of volume, location as an unused resource in agricultural fields, tion of sensors without any external power RE100*, a global initiative network of companies com- and hours, compares the data with energy generation town area, buildings and factories. We are supply from a wall socket or battery. The planning to develop a model that integrates cell is expected to be a clean and smart mitted to use 100% renewable electricity, marking a first status, and controls power distribution within the entire the waterwheel and motor mechanisms to independent power source to contribute for Japan. As part of these efforts aimed at a zero-car- district so as to optimize supply-demand balance. enable water power generation even from to spread of the Internet of Things (IoT). low flows and small height differences, which bon society, the Center operates experimental research is difficult with conventional technologies, in projects on energy management for individual offices order to construct locally produced and locally used energy infrastructure.

* RE100 :Companies collaborating in this global initiative seek to source Distribute surplus power resulting 100% renewable electricity. from saving efforts Energy Conservation Reduce power supply as appropriate to facilities Lighting and air-conditioning control system Energy-conservation / creation/storage control system in office and residential districts where demand Control to optimize lighting and air-conditioning for building and plant facility changes frequently, and redistribute the resulting operations using indoor environment sensors Energy conservation surplus power to the facilities that need it. The system manages the information and creation interlocking control system obtained via sensors such as lightness, This system is for more than just saving Power storage human occupancy and temperature in the electricity for buildings and plants; it aims cloud, and controls lighting and air-condi- to optimize energy usage for the entire tioning operations to appropriate levels. It facility through interlocking control of allows for the effortless improvement of power conservation, creation and distri- Woody energy efficiency while achieving energy bution. We also plan to incorporate clean Power storage conservation, comfort and convenience biomass energy generation functions, focusing on Factory levels all at once. solar power, micro hydroelectric power district and other systems suitable to building and plant facilities.

Energy-conservation control system Next-generation agricultural system for building and plant facility Utilizing long-stored power Space-saving, high-efficiency Saving energy for existing equipment plant cultivation system Extract some of the long-stored power from electricity Office such as pums and fans in buildings and plants Housed in a facility refurbished from a pre- storage systems installed in plants and offices for BCP vious clean room and equipped with gener- district This system has been developed to con- purposes and EVB*s to use in facilities as needed. alized products to save costs, this laboratory serve energy required to operate air-con- specializes in research on plant cultivation ditioners in buildings and plants as well Micro * EVB : Electric-Vehicle Battery technologies. The research function focuses as factory equipment, such as pumps and hydroelectric on developments directed at high value-added EV charging fans. The system employs a sensor-linked power station cultivated plants, such as the rapid growth of variable-frequency drive, in place of the plants using ultrafine bubbles and light control generation conventional fixed-frequency inverter for improved antioxidant effect. We are also control, to optimize facility equipment working on minimizing the power consump- operations and also to maximize energy tion through energy-saving lights for cultiva- conservation effect. Power storage Residential tion and utilizing unused energy sources. district Automatic switch to nighttime power Power storage saving mode Solar Resource Conservation panels Power saving mode automatically turns on during Waste Plastic Oiling nighttime hours when demand decreases, in order to minimize electricity usage in the entire town. Generating and extracting oil and metal from waste plastic components Toner cartridges and bottles are difficult to recycle as they are soiled by toner and contain Control system monitoring metal parts. We recycle such waste plastic components as a resource by dissolving them Procure energy by utilizing renewable using heat. We plan to further advance this recycling technology to build our model for re- Monitoring sensors are installed to detect electricity generation source and energy recycling as a structure of local production for local use. problems with control systems to enable early Use renewable energy sources to the extent possible actions. to generate electricity, mainly through solar power and micro hydroelectric power systems. * The above shows a conceptual image of an energy flow model

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Development and implementation of reuse and recycling technologies Sharing Ricoh’s Current and Future Environmental Activities

Future Bldg. onored with Most of our OA device reuse and recycling functions, Prime Theater R previously distributed over 17 locations across Japan, Minister’s F Visitors can learn about Ricoh’s concept and its approach to have now been consolidated at the RICOH Eco Busi- Award 1 the environmental business and experience our vision for ness Development Center in Gotemba.The Center Distinguished the future. enjoys a high reputation within the industry for both R romoter Awards quality and quantity in processing OA devices. Based on the Comet Circle concept, we further develop re- onored with use and recycling technology at this advanced site. President’s Also, by expanding the target products and areas for Award Collaboration Section reuse and recycling, we plan to reinforce our office Distinguished The latest environmental solutions presented through R romoter Awards F equipment business centered on photocopiers and 2 hands-on sessions. printers and drive the Ricoh Group’s eco business for- * The unit reuse increase of OA devices collected by Eco Solutions Showcase One Message for One Tree ward. using ultra-simple packag- ing and shipping Our latest products introduced in Utilizing the digital signage-based tech- trade shows, including those that nology for MICE* solution, visitors can imagio MP C4503RC/3003RC have recently been released or write their own ECO Declaration on their forthcoming, are on display. photographs, with Ricoh donating one tree for each declaration. Reuse and Recycle Technologies Employed in Reused Products Automatic entering and * Meetings, incentive tours, conventions, conferences and exhibitions dispatching system for collected Collect Sort Disassemble Cleaning Assemble QA Ship machines using automated Stairwell View (Illustration & Art Objects) guided vehicle (AGV) In the stairwell, we display illustrations of various animals We have incorporated the 2F and plants found in the Mt. Fuji area as well as art objects Collected items Verification of QA in the same use of automated guided 3F are selected and exclusive tech- standards for vehicle (AGV) to improve made from repurposed waste materials. ranked by our nologies such as new products plant operations and space proprietary di- media dry clean- efficiency for entering and agnostic system ing dispatching control of col- lected machines.

Overview of Eco Garden City Project (with Projection Mapping) Concept of a Sustainable Society: The Comet Circle™ 3F You can view video picture of “Gotemba City’s Eco Garden City Project” with projection mapping. The Comet Circle is a conceptual representation of the figure, the smaller the loop (closer to the user), the Ricoh’s approach to realize a sustainable society by at- lower the environmental impact and higher economic tempting to reduce environmental impacts throughout efficiency. Ricoh’s development of reuse and recycling the entire lifecycle of a product, not just within the technology is seeking to make these loops as small and Ricoh Group but also including both the upstream and close to the user as possible. downstream sections of the supply chain. As shown in Eco Bldg.

Parts Materials Fossil and mineral resources etc. Materials The Comet Circle manufac- manufac- Product supplier manufac- turer turer F This is a real-life presentation of the Comet Circle, Ricoh’s turer 2 resource recycling concept to realize a sustainable society, Sales Reuse of parts using actual products and components. company

Reuse of products User of recycling Closed loop materials materials Long use Generation of raw materials recycling Open loop • Chemical recycling Product Parts Materials materials Oil recovery Maintenance company, • Metals recycling User recovery recovery recovery recycling company smelting center center company company Metals Feasibility Study Index This space is dedicated to collaboration with visitors and Disassembly oil Thermal F Energy recovery 3 energy discussing concrete ideas on environmental issues. An over- collection (Energy, CO2) Collection Sorting and disassembly company view of the various environmental topics under which we center Recycling conduct demonstration tests is introduced, including the center Final vision, background, technological features, Ricoh’s advan- ©1994 RICOH Shredder disposal company company tage, business plan and schedule. Shredder dust Landfill Crushing of products

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