To meet society's expectations, it is necessary to keep developing products that will help to foster a sustainable recycling society. Regarding our environment and recycling initiatives, we have applied "Ecodream" as the comprehensive brand name for our environmentally friendly products including recycled products, & initiatives to expand the business of these products have been named the "Ecodream" Project which is promoted throughout the Group. For the "Ecodream" Project, to contribute further to energy savings and global environmental protection, we aim to increase our environmentally friendly and recycled products with targets for FY 2010 set at 340 billlion yen in sales, more than double that of FY 2005.
We have to find ways to reduce the burden on the environment at the entire stage of the life cycle including manufacturing products from raw materials, using the products, and disposing them. We define such products reducing the burden on the environment as environmentally friendly products. In concrete terms that means environmentally friendly products result in use of less energy (carbon dioxide reduction, energy reduction) or make environment clean (water purification, air purification, reduction of toxics).
Such products are carbon fibers for aircraft that contribute to less energy by reducing the weight of the aircraft and non-petrochemical-based fibers and plastics that are conducive to the prevention of global warming. We also produce membranes for seawater desalination systems in response to the issue of global insufficient water resource.
Carbon Fiber Torayca*
Toray Torayca* used in Boeing 787
Toray Ecodear* polylactic acid (PLA) plastic resin used for case of Fujitsu's FMV-BIBLO notebook computer
Reverse Osmosis Membrane Element
(for seawater desalination system)
