Yokohama adds trees in Thailand

ERJ staff report (DS)

Tokyo - The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd. said that on Wednesday, August 12, it carried out a tree-planting at Yokohama Tire Manufacturing (Thailand) Co., Ltd., a Thailand-based subsidiary for the manufacture of tyres for passenger cars, trucks and buses, as a second-phase tree-planting of the "Yokohama Forever Forest" project.

It was the first second-phase planting conducted at an overseas manufacturing base of Yokohama Rubber.

The "Yokohama Forever Forest" project takes some 10 years to create forests at domestic and overseas manufacturing bases of Yokohama Rubber by 2017 or the company's 100th anniversary. Under the guidance of Mr. Akira Miyawaki, a total of 500,000 trees will be planted at 7 domestic and 11 overseas plants of Yokohama Rubber Group Companies in accordance with potential natural vegetation.

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Press release from Yokohama