Toyo Tires has declared its support for the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). Driven by climate change, recent years have brought a raft of abnormal weather events – including heavy rains and flooding – as well as frequent natural disasters. And this has had an impact on the Toyo Tires Group as well, increasing the...
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German chemical company Lanxess has obtained certified carbon footprint values for the base resins used in its Durethan polyamide (PA) and Pocan polyester (PBT) products. The company will now be able to provide these values to its customers in the plastic processing sector. Certification here was carried out by an accredited certification body, and covers not only PA6 precursor caprolactam...
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Toyoda Gosei has opened the Energy Saving Dojo, an educational facility at its Miwa Technical Center, to share energy-saving examples of production processes within the company and eliminate energy waste. The objective is to share good practices with suppliers and others to promote initiatives to reduce carbon emissions throughout the supply chain. The company aims to achieve carbon neutrality in...
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Tosoh Corp. (TYO:4042) has formulated a new policy aimed at achieving carbon neutrality. The policy here looks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the entire Tosoh Group, and follows the Japanese government’s recent moves to declare carbon neutrality for 2050 and revise the country’s 2030 emissions reduction target. Under this new policy, Tosoh has laid out a strategy to reduce...
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Toyo Tire & Rubber Co. Ltd. (TYO:5105) will start shifting from thermal energy sources to natural gas at its Sendai automobile tire manufacturing plant in Iwanuma, Miyagi Prefecture. The Sendai plant has been Toyo Tires’ manufacturing base for automobile tires for more than half a century since 1962. Until now, it has utilized the burning of coal and used tires...
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