Environmental Related Data

Balance of Input & Output

Balance of Input & Output

The Sumitomo Forestry Group accurately understands how its business activities impact the environment and make evaluations and manage them in its environmental management. As such, data on environmental impact is collected at each stage from energy and raw material input to manufacturing and disposal per plant and business to utilize them for reduction initiatives.

Fiscal 2022 Sumitomo Forestry Group Balance of Input & Output*

INPUT
  • Energy Input (TJ) 12,046
    Purchased electricity (1,000MWh) 266
    Petroleum (1,000kL) 16
    Gas (1,000m3) 4,659
    Coal (1,000t) 27
    Wood waste (1,000t) 520
    Palm kernel shells (PKS, etc.) (1,000t) 23
    Non-industrial steam (TJ) 4
    Water consumption (1,000m3) 2,937
  • Raw materials (1,000t) 2,575
    Timber 1,832
    Metal 31
    Plastic 19
    Paper 1
    Adhesives, coatings, drugs 89
    Concrete 369
    Other 233
    Seedlings (1,000) 1,882
BUSINESS ACTIVITIES
  • Product
    Building, housing materials (1,000t) 48
    Potting mix (1,000t) 19
    Chips (1,000t) 264
    MDF (1,000m3) 306
    PB (1,000m3) 416
    LVL, plywood (1,000m3) 164
    Lumber / laminated engineered wood (1,000m3) 27
    Kitchen cabinets (1,000) 112
    Woodworking / others (1,000t) 79
    Quantity harvested at company owned forests (1,000m3) 41
    Seedling production (1,000) 1,887
    Unused wood resources (1,000m3) 18
    Business activities
    Transmission (1,000MWh) 433
    Transmission (1,000MWh)
    Number of delivered domestic household sales 8,300
    Number of delivered overseas household sales 13,031
OUTPUT
  • Waste (1,000t)
    Total generated 496
    Final disposal amount 24
    Greenhouse Gas emissions (1,000t-CO2e)
    (Scope 1,2)
    356
  • Chemical substance waste
    released (t)
    13
    Waste water discharge (1,000m3) 970
    Greenhouse Gas emissions
    (1,000t-CO2e)
    (Scope 3)
    9,400

* The period of data collection for fiscal 2022 is from January 1 to December 31, 2022

Research & Development*

INPUT
  • Energy Input (TJ) 28
    Purchased electricity (1,000MWh) 2
    Petroleum (1,000kL) 0.02
    Gas (1,000m3) 77
    Wood waste (1,000t) 0.027
  • Water consumption (1,000m3) 8
OUTPUT
  • Transmission (1,000MWh) 0.039
    Waste (1,000t)
    Total generated 0.18
    Final disposal amount 0.02
  • Chemical substance waste
    released (t)
    -
    Greenhouse Gas emissions
    (1,000t-CO2e)
    1
    Waste water discharge (1,000m3) 7

* Subject: Tsukuba Research Institute

Forest Management*

INPUT
  • Energy Input (TJ) 7
    Purchased electricity (1,000MWh) 0.2
    Petroleum (1,000kL) 0.1
    Wood pellet (1,000t) 0.02
  • Raw Materials
    Domestic forest raw materials
    (seedling shipment [1,000])
    1,882
    Water consumption (1,000m3) 55
OUTPUT
  • Product
    Quantity harvested at company owned forests (1,000m3) 41
    Seedling production (1,000) 1,887
    Unused wood resources (1,000m3) 18
  • Greenhouse Gas emissions (1,000t-CO2e) 0.4

* Subjects: Forestry Offices (Hyuga, Niihama, Osaka, and Mombetsu); seedling tree farming centers (Togo, Motoyama, Gifu, Watarase, and Mombetsu)

Manufacturing Business*

INPUT
  • Energy Input (TJ) 4,249
    Purchased electricity (1,000MWh) 220
    Petroleum (1,000kL) 4
    Gas (1,000m3) 2,952
    Wood waste (1,000t) 120
    Waste plastic (1,000t) -
    Water consumption (1,000m3) 997
  • Raw materials (1,000t) 1,847
    Timber 1,718
    Metal 6
    Plastic 6
    Paper 1
    Adhesives, coatings, drugs 85
    Purified soil others 19
    Other 12
OUTPUT
  • Product
    Building, housing materials (1,000t) 48
    Potting mix (1,000t) 19
    Chips (1,000t) 264
    MDF (1,000m3) 306
    PB (1,000m3) 416
    LVL, plywood (1,000m3) 164
    Lumber / laminated engineered wood (1,000m3) 27
    Kitchen Cabinets (1,000) 112
    Woodworking / others (1,000t) 79
  • Chemical substance waste released (t) 10
    Waste (1,000t)
    Total generated 245
    Final disposal amount 5
    Greenhouse Gas emissions (1,000t-CO2e) 120
    Waste water discharge (1,000m3) 454

* Subjects: Sumitomo Forestry Crest (Kashima Plant, Shizuoka Plant, Niihama Plant and Imari Plant), Sumitomo Forestry Landscaping (Shinshiro Plant and Tobishima Plant of Agro-Products Division), Kutai Timber Indonesia (KTI, Indonesia), Rimba Partikel Indonesia (RPI, Indonesia), Sinar Rimba Pasifik (SRP, Indonesia), AST Indonesia (ASTI, Indonesia), Nelson Pine Industries (NPIL, New Zealand), Vina Eco Board (VECO, Vietnam), Canyon Creek Cabinet Company (CCC, America), Pan Asia Packing (PAP), Japan Bio Energy, Okhotsk Bio Energy, Michinoku Bio Energy.

* Pan Asia Packing (PAP) is excluded for waste, etc.

Housing Business (Domestic)*

INPUT
  • Energy Input (TJ) 258
    Purchased electricity (1,000MWh) 13
    Petroleum (1,000kL) 4
    Gas (1,000m3) 90
    Non-industrial steam (TJ) 1
    Water consumption (1,000m3) 44
  • Raw materials (1,000t) 723
    Timber 114
    Metal 25
    Plastic 13
    Concrete 369
    Other 202
OUTPUT
  • Greenhouse Gas
    (1,000t-CO2e)
    (Scope 1,2)
    14
    Transmission (1,000MWh) 0.17
  • Facilities completed in 2022 (buildings) 8,300
    Average total floor
    area (m2)
    123.14
    Waste from new housing construction (1,000t)
    Total generated 22
    Final disposal amount 1
  • Greenhouse Gas emissions
    (1,000t-CO2e)
    (Scope 3)
    1,635
  • Demolition waste
    (1,000t)
    Total generated 118
    Final disposal amount 7

* Subjects: Sumitomo Forestry Housing Division and Sumitomo Forestry Home Engineering

Renewable Energy Business*

INPUT
  • Energy Input (TJ) 6,861
    Purchased electricity (1,000MWh) 1
    Petroleum (1,000kL) 0.4
    Gas (1,000m3) -
    Wood waste (1,000t) 400
    Palm kernel shells (PKS, etc.) (1,000t) 23
    Coal (1,000t) 27
  • Raw materials (1,000t)
    Adhesives, coatings, drugs 5
    Water consumption (1,000m3) 1,411
OUTPUT
  • Transmission (1,000MWh) 429
    Chemical substance waste released (t) 3
    Greenhouse Gas emissions (1,000t-CO2e) 186
    Waste water discharge (1,000m3) 508
  • Waste (1,000t)
    Total generated 11
    Final disposal amount 0.1

* Subjects: Mombetsu Biomass Electric Power, Hachinohe Biomass Electric Power