MARUWA Printing Co., Ltd. has been placing emphasis on the "harmony" of its staff, customers, and society and has been a major contributor to the information society. By being aggressively involved in CSR, such as integrating production from planning to printing and acquiring ISO14001 certification etc., they have secured a high level of trust from their clientele.

Over the last few years, the number of companies that began issuing environmental reports as a part of their CSR activities has been increasing. With the RYOBI 684 in-house, MARUWA Printing Co., Ltd. (President: Hisashi Torihara, No. of employees: 35) issues an Environmental Report each year and works positively towards implementing environmental measures. In their "Environmental Report 2006", they explain what kind of waste is generated in the printing process and what activities the company is involved in, etc.

The motto at MARUWA Printing Co. is "cheerful, energetic and honest", indicating their desire for their staff to always maintain those 3 attributes. They further aim at active communication with the local community from the belief that the company is also an important member of society. Some simple approaches to this are the involvement in the cleanup of the parks nearby the company and the participation in eco-campaigns sponsored by Nagoya City, etc. Through these activities, communication with local residents is being promoted and employee-consciousness towards the environment has been enhanced.
According to President Torihara, "through such goals as the acquisition of ISO14001 and ISO9001, and the introduction of an ISMS (information security management system), activities that are normally considered rare for a company of our size, we're actively working towards in-house standardization. And I would like to use such activities to create a workplace environment where employees can keep their motivation at all times."

ISO14001 Environmental policy

Certifications acquired   

Through print jobs centered on pamphlets and handbills, elementary and junior high school yearbooks, and orders from government and other public offices, etc., MARUWA Printing plans, produces, and prints materials that have a close connection to their local area, and it is the RYOBI 684 A2 4-color printing press that they have selected as their main printing press. President Torihara explained, "Hasn' t the time to discuss printing presses with a speed of tens of thousands of rpm ended? Now that printing lots have become so small, a company' s overall capabilities, in print preparation and such changeover processes as plate-changing, all the way through to print out, has become very important."
Yasushi Ohi, the plant manager, then offered us the following words of praise for the RYOBI 684. "Inking, changing paper, and switching the pull side guide all can be accomplished very quickly and reliably. I love that even small lot jobs and those that required quite a number of changes can be handled quickly, and that waste sheets can be reduced as well." The idea that shortening work times not only leads to an improvement in productivity but is also the first step to implementing environmental measures. RYOBI 684 is an ideal press for Maruwa printing company who realizes the idea.

Mr. Ohi,
Plant Manager

Company employees

Print samples   

At MARUWA Printing, electricity use that is related to carbon dioxide emission is recorded every month and reported at monthly meeting. Because the amount of electricity used increases greatly in summer and winter, rules for using air conditioners are posted to inform the employees. In order to reduce the amount of gasoline used as well, "No Car" days are designated three times a year and, along with a review of the districts that each salesperson is in charge of, the company has prohibited the idling of business vehicles when parked.
To additionally cut down such effluents as the ink that is discharged from the company, MARUWA Printing also works to eliminate wasted ink through the use of an automatic ink mixing system.

By advancing the printing process totally towards CTP, MARUWA has worked towards eliminating the need for film, which ultimately turns into waste as an intermediate material. In addition, the conventional handover of films to cooperating companies has also been changed to a transfer of those films as data. By converting paper originals into data, a system that enables CTP output has been constructed for the polyester based plates as well.

All 35 employees are unified at MARUWA Printing Company Ltd., in working on and practicing environmental preservation activities as indicated above, and President Torihara spoke to us about his aspirations for the future as well. "What I see as necessary from here on is self-promotion. I think that we need to put thought into promoting sales. Our ability to make proposals and implement in-house standardization... Further communication with the local area... I would like to have our company known better through activities such as these and to become an entity that is thoroughly approved of by the community."