To reduce its environmental burden, the Teijin Group has established key performance indicators (KPIs) for CO₂ emissions, water use, hazardous chemicals, and landfill waste and are pursuing relevant efforts accordingly. Please click on the following links for more details.

• Climate Change
• Resource Recycling
• Pollution
• Water

When purchasing or procuring products and services, the Teijin Group recommends purchasing and procuring from suppliers that strive to reduce environmental burden in such ways as selecting products and services that consider the environment and have the smallest environmental burden possible. Please click on the following link for more details.

• Supply Chain Sustainability

As a manufacturing company producing materials and other products, the Teijin Group has been striving to implement the 3Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) toward the realization of a recycling-oriented society, but we realize that even more effort is required. It is for this reason that we have identified "achievement of a circular economy" as a key issue. A society in which a consumption-only economy continues is not a sustainable one. The Group wants to contribute toward the shift to a circular economy in which, just like the natural ecosystem cycle, resources continue to circulate, and the "throwaway" concept does not exist. We will, of course, endeavor to recycle resources in our production activities. But even more, we will promote the circularization of society by, for example, encouraging material recycling based on local production for local consumption in which discharged resources are used as recycled products and returned to the market. In this way, we will also contribute toward resolving the increasingly serious problem of marine plastics. Please click on the following link for more details.

• Materiality 2 Achievement of a Circular Economy

Teijin Forest in Bangladesh

The Teijin Group is committed to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. To this end, we are reducing CO₂ emissions from our business activities, phasing out coal-fired power generation, and pursuing technological innovations, including energy conservation, the shift to renewable energy, and process innovation. As part of these efforts, we are working on the Teijin Forest reforestation project to offset unavoidable CO₂ emissions from our business activities, such as those from business-related air travel. This initiative is being carried out in collaboration with the University of Chittagong in Bangladesh, using the Japanese Miyawaki method of afforestation. The Teijin Forest was established in 2022 along both banks of a small river that runs through the University of Chittagong campus. This forest is planted with seedlings of endangered and critically endangered native plant species of Bangladesh, contributing not only to the removal of atmospheric CO₂ but also to the rapid restoration of the degraded forest ecosystem. In this project, university students can learn about the entire life cycle of afforestation by planting seedlings of various species and monitoring their condition at the end of each semester over a four-year period. The students regularly manage the plantation, learning how to nurture seedlings, prepare the site, and procure compost--all while helping to create a small, thriving forest.

Teijin Forest within the University of Chittagong campus