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INTERNATIONAL TYRE NEWS
国际轮胎行业动态
‘Environmental Education Base’
Yokohama Rubber Chinese tyre manufacturing and sales subsidiary, Hangzhou Yokohama Tire Co, Ltd, was certi- by the authorities in Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province on 26th November, 2014.
About 300,000 companies currently have operations in Hang- - one of only four manufacturers in this elite group. This marked the second time in two years that Hangzhou Yokohama Tire’s the Hangzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone, where the company’s facilities are located.
One of the basic policies of Yokohama Rubber’s current medi- um-term management plan, entitled ‘Grand Design 100’, is for the company to ‘assert world-class strengths in technologies for protecting the environment’. As a result, all group companies in Japan and other countries are striving to achieve higher levels of Yokohama Tire stepped up its efforts to contribute to a sound environment.
Since 2011, Hangzhou Yokohama Tire had cooperated with Hangzhou City’s environmental protection policy, investing more than RMB20 million in environment-friendly facilities, including equipment to the mixing and vulcanisation process lines at the tyre manufacturing plant and the construction of on-site sewage treatment facilities. On World Environment Day 2014 (5th June), Hangzhou Yokohama Tire held an external event to promote en- cleanliness of our rivers’.
Meanwhile, inside the company, it started a ‘recycle water’ project to promote reduced use of water at the plant's production lines and at employees' homes. The project succeeded in reducing - zhou Yokohama Tire is educating local residents and students about the environment. The company’s employees designed and constructed the ‘Yokohama Tire Garden’ as a facility where plant visitors can learn about the environment while enjoying the gar- den's facilities. The company's programmes for local students in- clude a video introducing the tyre manufacturing process and the creation of an environmental education programme.
Hangzhou Yokohama Tire was established in January 2002 and began tyre production in May 2003. The company manufactures and sells OEM and replacement tyres for passenger cars and operations had reached the 30-millionth milestone. Hangzhou Yokohama Tire employed 1,350 people as of December 2014.
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