ISO 14001

In late 1996, shortly after the ISO14001 Environmental Management Standard was first issued, SIA begin exploring what this new ISO14001 standard was all about, and whether there was a benefit of implementing this system at SIA. Since manufacturing began in 1998 SIA has an excellent record of maintaining "compliance" to Federal, State, and local environmental laws and regulations. However, it was soon identified as we implemented the ISO14001 Environmental Management System (EMS) that there was much more that we could do. Based on our commitments to the environment, SIA was the 1st automotive manufacturer in the United States to be ISO14001 “certified”. (Certified indicates that our EMS was, and continues to be successfully audited, by an external 3rd party auditing agency against the requirements of the ISO14001 standard).

As our ISO14001 EMS continued to grow, we have implemented many environmental related improvement projects that support our Environmental Policy: “Eliminate Environmental Risk of our Operations”. We continue to accomplish our policy by reducing the amount of waste generated, and reusing and/or recycling the remaining items. In fact, SIA’s reuse/recycling rate is 99.6%! Through the commitments of many functions, SIA achieved ‘Zero Landfill’ status in May 2004, an unbelievable accomplishment for a manufacturing facility of our size, and with the amount of by-product wastes generated.

In 2003, our parent company, Fuji Heavy Industries (FHI) outlined key strategic environmental objectives for all of FHI’s business operations world-wide from product design, through manufacturing, distribution, and sales, and finally to our customers.

To enhance the commitments to these key environment objectives, the Subaru North American Environmental Committee (N.A.E.C) was established in 2003. This committee is an organization consisting of Fuji Heavy Industries subsidiaries located in North America, created for the purpose of “enhancing environmental management efficiency of all the member companies through N.A.E.C organization management.” The N.A.E.C. believes that responsible stewardship of our environment is essential for our business success, and we strongly believe that as stewards of the environment, we can reduce or eliminate adverse environmental impacts associated with our business operations and promote activities beneficial to the environment. Each year FHI releases their FHI Social & Environmental Report that outlines the progress of all FHI companies and divisions, and the progress made to environmental stewardship.