Toyota Industries Reports

The reports from each year can be viewed as PDF files.

Conservation Activities

Toyota Industries provides support for a wide range of environmental activities, such as local community cleanup activities and environmental preservation activities, which are carried out by out employee volunteers.

*The activities (examples) presented on this page are carried out by Toyota Industries Corporation in Japan, but do not represent those organized by our subsidiaries or affiliates.

TICO Ecocoro* Tree Thinning Activity

Toyota Industries started a new project to conserve forests, named "Ecocoro Tree Thinning" in FY2010. This project is run by a company-wide informal group consisting of young leaders at manufacturing departments and currently focuses on an activity to conserve forests at a park named “Kaisho-No-Mori” (Location: Seto city, Aichi prefecture, Japan). Members of the group will work on thinning 6000 hectares of forests for next three years. On November 2009 they first learned present forest condition and the importance of preserve forest and thinning and then went out to mow the grass and thin the forest of the park. Now Toyota Industries is planning some workshops that give children an opportunity to experience woodwork of thinned wood.

*The word "Ecocoro" is an original coined words consisring of "Ecology” and “Cocoro" (means "Spirit" in Japanese) and symbolizes our ambition to foster an eco-friendly spirit.

Present from the Forest Program

Approving the ideas of the "Friends of the Earth Japan", an international environmental NGO, we support the Present from the Forest Program since FY 2006. This program aims to create wooden "friendly pallets" through the use of lumber harvested from forest thinning in Japan. By actively encouraging the participation of pallet manufactures and users, we took part in the maintenance of 10.7 hectares of forest, which significantly exceeded our targets, and create 80000 "friendly pallets" so far. We will continue such support with a view toward promoting environmental conservation through the maintenance of forests and revitalizing Japanese forest industry through increased demand for thinned wood.
Furthermore, as part of our community programs, we donate the thinned-wood benches to local kindergartens and parks.

Local Environmental Beautification Activities

Every September We conduct a "Company-wide environment beautification campaign" to clean up the areas surrounding each of its domestic plants. We also call on our group companies to participate, and in FY 2010, some 4500 employees from 19 affiliated companies took part in this activities. In addition, our Manager's Councils, groups of employees organized by supervisory level, and the "Toyota Industries Council of Retired Employees", an organization comprised of retired Toyota Industries' employees, take part in cleanup events in the areas around public facilities, such as parks and train stations. Furthermore, the "Adopt-an-Area Program" is being promoted by citizens and business groups in cooperation with local governments. Under this program, citizens and business make an application to the local government to "adopt" a certain public area, and then carry out regular cleaning and beautification activities in that area. Our Manager's Councils and employee volunteers are continuing to register to participate in this program and are carrying out clean-up activities.

The Green Fund

In response to the requests of local governments, every May we carry out fund raising activities for the Green Fund. We request donations from employees at the company gates as they come to and leave work. The donations we collect are then used by the local governments to promote city greening activities.

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