SANYO Hungary Kft. manufactures solar cell modules, and its employees, including managers, are actively engaged in environmental protection activities. One such activity involves picking up litter in the industrial park where the company is situated, to mark World Environment Day on June 5.
A summer festival event is also held every year for the employees and their families in order to increase environmental awareness. In fiscal 2008, the festival included the goal of obtaining a Guinness record for the largest logo made from flowering plants. With the participation of 450 employees, a flowerbed depicting the SANYO brand logo was planted, and the result was recognized as a Guinness record for Hungary. Through these kinds of nature-appreciation events, the employees of SANYO Hungary are gaining a deeper understanding of the Sanyo Group’s Think GAIA brand vision. The events have become great opportunities for employees to show their commitment to environmental protection.

The largest flower logo	Certificate record

Since 2001, SANYO Hungary has been supporting a popular local ecological event for both children and adults called, Environmental Children’s Day. It is held every year on the first day of summer holidays. Working with several local green organizations, booths are set up in order to stimulate children’s interest in the environment, and energy-saving products are also put on display. At the SANYO booth, used dry cell batteries are collected from visitors in exchange for small gifts.
SANYO Hungary also held a Think GAIA Competition that was well received by the community. The aim of the competition was to raise environmental awareness among fifth and six graders at three elementary schools in the city of Dorog, during the school year from September to June. The students formed three-person teams and competed to achieve the best results while addressing a different environmental issue set each month. The issues covered environmental protection topics and Sanyo Group themes, providing the students with a variety of theoretical and practical exercises. The competition project was entirely run by SANYO Hungary employees, from the planning to the implementation stages.

Environmental Children's Day	Think GAIA Competition

Environmental class in Munich, Germany

SANYO Component Europe GmbH, a sales company for various batteries and electronic components, held environmental classes featuring a rechargeable battery that can be used over and over at Japanische Internationale Schule Munchen in Germany and INSTITUT CULTUREL FRANCO-JAPONAIS in Paris, France on September 16 and 18, 2008, respectively. A total of 92 elementary and junior high school students participated (grades 4 through 9 in Munich, and grade 4 in Paris) in these first classes to ever be held in Europe.
The students learned how batteries work and their impact on the environment, and had the opportunity to think about their futures. After the class students wrote their reaction with one student commenting, “In the future a job related to batteries sounds interesting!”
One of the goals of the company is to share with European children how leading a lifestyle of “reusing instead of disposing” is a way of caring for the environment. They are looking at the possibility of holding further classes in other major German cities.

HIT solar panels installed on the roof of the company’s building

The Sanyo Group’s regional headquarters in Europe, SANYO Europe Ltd., is striving to reduce the environmental impact of its business activities. The company’s building has been designed to the latest environmental standards in order to conserve energy, and also generates clean electricity using HIT solar panels installed on the roof.

SANYO Europe takes active steps to recycle paper and other waste materials. All new employees receive a handbook with a section on recycling and trash reduction, thereby helping to strengthen the environmental awareness of employees.