{"id":3121,"date":"2026-04-20T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T01:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shokubai.mediawars.ne.jp\/ja\/?post_type=sustainability&p=3121"},"modified":"2026-04-20T10:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T01:00:09","slug":"air-pollution","status":"publish","type":"sustainability","link":"https:\/\/www.shokubai.co.jp\/en\/sustainability\/environment\/air-pollution\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Pollution Prevention"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Efforts to Reduce Environmental Impact by Introducing Catalysts for Treating Exhaust Gas<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We are making efforts to reduce emissions of SOx, NOx, dust, and VOCs to prevent air pollution. We ascertain the emissions of the respective substances, reduce fuel oil consumption and shift to natural gas to reduce SOx, install proprietary De-NOx equipment to reduce NOx, and install scrubbers to reduce dust. We also use proprietary catalysts for treating exhaust gas to purify unreacted raw materials and other emissions from our manufacturing processes.
None of our emissions exceed the values we agreed upon with the municipal and prefectural governments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u3000\u3000<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nippon Shokubai<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(tons)<\/figcaption>
Fiscal year<\/th>2019<\/th>2020<\/th>2021<\/strong><\/th>2022<\/th>2023<\/th>2024<\/th><\/tr>
SOx emissions <\/td>3.5<\/td>3.7<\/td>3.1<\/td>3.0<\/td>2.0<\/td>4.3<\/td><\/tr>
NOx emissions <\/td>203<\/td>198<\/td>196<\/td>186<\/td>166<\/td>184<\/td><\/tr>
Dust emissions <\/td>6.5<\/td>5.7<\/td>7.4<\/td>6.0<\/td>7.6<\/td>7.6<\/td><\/tr>
VOC emissions*1<\/sup><\/td>–<\/td>57<\/td>59<\/td>62<\/td>53<\/td>57<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

*1 Including substances subject to the PRTR Law (air emissions), and VOCs among those covered by the Japan Chemical Industry Association’s PRTR survey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u3000\u3000<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Group companies in Japan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(tons)<\/figcaption>
Fiscal year<\/th>2019<\/th>2020<\/th>2021<\/strong><\/th>2022<\/th>2023<\/th>2024<\/th><\/tr>
SOx emissions <\/td>1.4<\/td>1.6<\/td>1.4<\/td>0.7<\/td>0.6<\/td>0.1<\/td><\/tr>
NOx emissions <\/td>43<\/td>48<\/td>72<\/td>52<\/td>40<\/td>33<\/td><\/tr>
Dust emissions <\/td>3.3<\/td>2.1<\/td>2.1<\/td>1.9<\/td>1.4<\/td>1.7<\/td><\/tr>
VOC emissions*2<\/sup><\/td>–<\/td>–<\/td>–<\/td>–<\/td>–<\/td>29<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

*2 Including substances subject to the PRTR Law (air emissions).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u3000\u3000<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Group companies outside Japan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(tons)<\/figcaption>
Fiscal year<\/th>2019<\/th>2020<\/th>2021<\/strong><\/th>2022<\/th>2023<\/th>2024<\/th><\/tr>
SOx emissions <\/td>5.0<\/td>3.3<\/td>3.5<\/td>4.9<\/td>12.3<\/td>10.2<\/td><\/tr>
NOx emissions <\/td>67<\/td>61<\/td>61<\/td>70<\/td>84<\/td>59<\/td><\/tr>
VOC emissions*3<\/sup><\/td>–<\/td>–<\/td>–<\/td>–<\/td>–<\/td>21<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

*3 Including substances designated under the laws and regulations of each respective country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3118,"menu_order":39,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"cat_sustainability":[347],"class_list":["post-3121","sustainability","type-sustainability","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","cat_sustainability-environment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":{"memo":"\u2460\u300c\u30ab\u30c6\u30b4\u30ea\u300d\u306e\u307f\u65e5\u672c\u8a9e\u3001\u82f1\u8a33\u304cWord\u306b\u7121\u3044\u3000\u203bWord\u300c5-8\u300d\u3000Tomotomo55","is_hide_navi":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shokubai.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sustainability\/3121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shokubai.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sustainability"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shokubai.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/sustainability"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shokubai.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/www.shokubai.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sustainability\/3121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20121,"href":"https:\/\/www.shokubai.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sustainability\/3121\/revisions\/20121"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shokubai.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sustainability\/3118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shokubai.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cat_sustainability","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shokubai.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cat_sustainability?post=3121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}