On April 18, Sumitomo Rubber unveiled a tire manufacturing system that utilizes hydrogen energy and is being tested at the company’s Shirakawa Plant in Fukushima Prefecture. The verification experiment has been adopted as a project subsidized by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO). At a press conference held on the same day, Sumitomo Rubber president Satoru Yamamoto...
Nitta has registered to join the 30 by 30 Alliance for Biodiversity, which is working to conserve biodiversity. The alliance was established as a voluntary alliance of the Ministry of the Environment, government, business and NPOs to achieve the 30 by 30 target. 30 by 30 is the G7 2030 Nature Pact agreed at the G7 summit held in the...
Asahi Kasei has established the “Care for Earth” investment facility as a new initiative to achieve carbon neutrality. The company will invest $100 million globally over a five-year period through fiscal 2027 in early-stage startup companies that are working to solve problems in environmental fields such as hydrogen, energy storage, carbon management, and bio-chemicals. Since 2008, the company has been...
Zeon’s Tokuyama Plant in Shunan City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, participated in the Blue Carbon Offset Credit System utilizing J Blue Credits certified and issued by the Japan Blue Economy Association (JBE). In recent years, blue carbon has been attracting attention as a CO2 sink, and efforts to preserve and restore blue carbon ecosystems are underway in many areas. One such example...
Carbon black manufacturer Asahi Carbon has acquired ISCC PLUS, an international certification system for sustainable products, and plans to start producing from August carbon black using recycled oil as raw material. Carbon black is a carbon material used for rubber reinforcement, coloring, and conductivity, and most of it is produced using petrochemical-derived raw material oil. As efforts to contribute to...
Toyoda Gosei held a Carbon Neutrality Promotion Meeting Toward 2030 with the participation of about 100 suppliers to support the promotion of carbon reduction activities at suppliers. Based on an open and equal relationship between the company and its suppliers, the companies are working to strengthen each other’s corporate structure through collaboration in product development, human resource development, and reduction...
