Toward Harmony with Nature

Given that our business is manufacturing products, we do so thanks to the blessings of nature such as materials and water; if our business leaves nature destroyed, the construction of a sustainable society will become impossible.
We contribute to regional society in the following ways.

Biodiversity Initiatives

Corporate Foresting Movement

Given that our business produces CO2 emissions, it is part of our corporate social responsibility to protect the forests which absorb CO2. Hanamaki Plant (TOHOKU NITTO KOGYO CORPORATION at the time) signed a convention in 2012 with Iwate Prefecture and Hanamaki City on corporation-led forest maintenance activities, conserving five hectares of municipally owned forest on Mt. Koshio in Hanamaki City.
Koshiozan, which also appears in Miyazawa Kenji's tanka poem "The Hill," is the site of frequent events and plays host to many visitors yearly. We regularly mow the grass and tend the plants at this location, also a place to relax for many residents, in order to conserve the environment.

Removing Non-native Species

We are supported by the blessing (biosystem service) of the natural environment. However, rapid extinctions are threatening this environment, caused in some cases by the invasion of non-native species. In particular, the lance-leaved coreopsis is tough enough to drive out native Japanese flora, listed as a "designated invasive alien species" in the Act on the Prevention of Adverse Ecological Impacts Caused by Designated Invasive Alien Species.
At Headquarters - Nagoya Plant, the move toward a green "park-factory" involves being careful to prevent the lance-leaved coreopsis from taking root and removing other non-native species.