【Water tunnel testing】

The Design Department of the Sasebo Heavy Industries creates environment-friendly ships, machinery, and steel structural products. We achieve our goals through light weight, ease of assembly, efficiency in both production and operation, high performance, energy saving, reduced noise, and increased service life. All of these factors contribute to environmental protection and resource conservation.

For new ship construction, we conduct tests in a water tunnel, improve propulsion performance through energy-saving stern and fin design, reduce weight by structure optimization, and simplify production with 3D simulation tools that save energy and resources during the manufacturing process).

The Sasebo Shipyard produced the “Environmental booklet” which includes environmental policies, goals and targets, and EMS operation guidelines, and distributes it to all employees of the shipyard, and its business partners and suppliers. In addition to this comprehensive education, Enviromental Division publishes monthly Environment and Saving Energy news, and members of the Environmental Promotion Committee conduct monthly “environmental patrols” of each work site.
Education of environment and energy control is conducted for all managers including group leaders for increasing awareness of environmental protection from FY2010.

All employees of the Sasebo Shipyard regularly cut grass and clean up the shipyard site, parking area, and bypass roads surrounding the facility, making our local environment cleaner.

The Young Men and Women’s Club of our company’s union does volunteer activities such as cleaning up at a local elder care center.

The Sasebo Shipyard donates caps of PET bottles collected after garbage separation to the authorized NPO Japan Committee for Vaccines for the World’s Children (JCV). Recycling the caps raises money for JCV programs to provide vaccinations for needy children in developing nations.

One of the major business of our consolidated subsidiary, Saseho Kosan Co., Ltd., is supplying meals to the Sasebo Shipyard and neighboring companies. Their lunch center switched to wash free rice in May 2007.

This allows them to reduce rice washing time and labor, and saves a large volume of water. Waste water from washing rice contains nitrogen and phosphorus and has a high level of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD: index indicating contamination of water). Use of wash free rice helps prevent pollution of rivers and the ocean.

The change also saves significant amounts of water for the city of Sasebo, which has limited water resources.