Lixil Corporation, maker of pioneering water and housing products, announced its updated environmental strategy that outlines how the company will tackle key environmental issues such as climate change mitigation and adaptation, water sustainability, and contributing to the realization of a circular economy.
Kinya Seto, President and CEO of Lixil said: “As a purpose-driven organization, Lixil is embedding environmental, social and governance (ESG) activities and commitments into our core business strategy, to ensure that we are having a positive impact and to strengthen our business over the long-term. Our updated environmental strategy is central to this approach, ensuring that we are aligned across our business to important environmental commitments, but also because it will allow us to capture new opportunities and manage risks.”
Lixil’s window product line-up ratio will become 100 percent high-performance for newly constructed homes and will continue to enhance technologies for improved energy efficiency, replacing existing windows and housing products in response to the growing renovation market.
The company will also be introducing functional yet efficient solutions for end-users to reduce consumption of energy in both new and existing homes, driving impact for Lixil and the environment – contributing to mitigation by enhancing the line-up of high-performance windows, doors and construction methods, and by energy saving water technologies such as faucets and toilets; while offering solutions such as shades, shutters, and storm doors designed to alleviate the effects of rising temperatures and heavy rainfall for adaptation.
Through water efficient products and solutions, Lixil can enable consumers to use water more efficiently and responsibly, reducing daily consumption. Lixil’s water saving toilet and faucet products, and smart water controllers targets to reduce a total of 2 billion cubic meters of water per year by FYE2025, globally.
Better homes also need clean and safe water – for showering, washing hands, or drinking. Lixil is helping to enable safer water for consumers and communities to tackle contamination by providing product solutions and promoting behavior change. The approach targets to expand its impact by access to safer water and water services, and improving quality for better tasting water through its filtration technology.
The company has also updated their circular economy targets moving forward. This includes recycling 90 percent of waste from operations by FYE2026 globally, improving efficiency. Across the value chain, Lixil has set enterprise-level targets to reduce single-use plastics used for packaging, increase resource efficient products and solutions, building take-back systems for product-to-product use; supported by repairing, resale or leasing services to ensure products can be used longer.
