Initiatives in the Environment, Energy and Healthcare Sectors

「本協業では、無錫アルプス電子有限公司（以下、無錫アルプス）（无锡阿尔卑斯电子有限公司）を先行拠点として、省エネ診断および共創エネルギーワークショップを実施し、29件の省エネルギー施策を特定しました。」

「Regarding responses to climate change and the promotion of resource circulation, we will seek to create added value while reducing environmental impact by creating products with high environmental value and advancing decarbonization initiatives.」

「In response to growing demand for environmental initiatives, we are expanding efforts to realize a decarbonized society by developing products with a low environmental impact, such as TACT switches® made with biomass plastics, as well as products that contribute to energy and resource conservation.」

「By tracking the locations and distribution routes of logistics materials and resolving issues involving loss and uneven distribution, we will help improve the efficiency of logistics and delivery operations and reduce the cost of emergency procurement of logistics materials. Improving delivery efficiency also reduces the energy consumption of transport vehicles, thereby helping reduce CO2 emissions and ultimately contributing to the achievement of carbon neutrality.」

「We also advanced the development of air-environment sensor modules effective for infection control, as well as the deployment of AirInput™, a spatial input technology that enables touchless operation, in elevators and lighting switches.」

「In the consumer and other markets of the electronic components business, we advanced proposals including touchless control panels designed with hygiene considerations in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and also began demonstration testing of an AI suitcase to help realize an inclusive society.」

「In the consumer and other markets of the electronic components business, we prepared to increase production of operating devices for ventilators, whose demand rose because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and proposed touchless control panels designed with hygiene considerations in mind. We also entered into a strategic partnership with Sensirion Holding AG (Switzerland) to expand the environmental-sensor business.」

「In EHII, we prepared to increase production of operating devices for ventilators in response to rising demand following the spread of COVID-19 and proposed touchless control panels designed with hygiene considerations in mind.」

「In EHII (Energy, Healthcare, Industry, and IoT), IoT collaborations with international logistics companies have begun, and adoption is also progressing in fields such as construction and healthcare.」

「In the Energy field, we began mass production of current sensors for smart distribution boards with a major overseas company. We have also begun shipping residential battery-storage systems and will pursue business development in energy-saving markets based on product development using our proprietary soft-magnetic amorphous material, LICARLOY™.」

「In EHII (Energy, Healthcare, Industry, and IoT), we participated in IoT-related exhibitions held in Japan, including CEATEC, and in China and elsewhere, actively identifying market needs in industrial equipment, energy, and other markets and proposing products to develop new demand.」

「We also advanced product proposals for various markets, including healthcare and energy management.」

「We have begun shipping residential energy storage systems for the newly emerging environmental energy market. Our in-house-developed, compact, high-efficiency power conversion module, equipped with a RICARLOY™ toroidal core made from our proprietary material, has achieved reductions in size and weight of more than 20% and an improvement in overall efficiency of more than 40% compared with conventional products.」

「Particularly in Japan, we will proactively address the environment, energy and healthcare sectors in light of energy issues and energy conservation, growing health consciousness, and efforts to reduce total healthcare costs in an aging society.」