Eco-friendly Products

Basic Concept

In addition to reducing the environmental impact of our business activities, we also aim to reduce the environmental impact of our products throughout their entire life cycle, including when they are used and recycled at our customers' sites. By acquiring external environmental certifications such as the "EcoLeaf" and "Carbon Footprint of Products (CFP)", we believe that we can be easily selected by our customers and thus contribute to reducing the environmental impact of society as a whole.

Medium-term Sustainability Plan "Eco-Friendly Products"

Materiality Item FYE March 2026 FYE March 2025
Medium-term targets*1 Annual targets*1
Eco-friendly products Development of eco-friendly products and services We will contribute to the reduction of CO2 emissions by society as a whole by promoting the use of environmentally certified products and supplying products with low CO2 emissions.
  • Continue to explore the possibility of utilizing waste as a valuable resource with other industries.
  • Continue to implement PR activities to raise awareness of environmental certification.*2
  • Establish a system to develop an optimal bio-coke production process.
  • Continue to study the development of products that contribute to reducing environmental burden.

*1 Unless otherwise stated, descriptions under these items target iron and steel products business, that would have the greatest impact on the Yamato Kogyo Group.
*2 EcoLeaf and Carbon Footprint of Products (CFP) Certification

Development of Eco-friendly Products and Services

Although steel is a material that can be recycled semi-permanently, the entire life cycle of steel, including manufacturing, distribution, use, disposal, and recycling, has an environmental impact, such as the generation of CO2. Our group has acquired environmental certification to produce eco-friendly products and services with reduced environmental impact and to allow our customers to make objective judgments. We will continue to maintain reliability and transparency while balancing the environment and management.

A brand of eco-friendly steel products +Green

+Green™ is a steel product that we have offset the remaining GHG emissions that cannot be reduced by our own efforts through the environmental value of forest-derived carbon credits and renewable energy certificates of biomass power generation.
Information on the GHG emissions and the environmental value used to offset GHG emissions of our products will be listed on the “+Green™ Certificate” that we issue and provided to our customers.
+Green website

+Green

Obtaining Eco-label Certification

Yamato Steel has acquired two types of environmental declaration certification, the EcoLeaf, and the Carbon Footprint of Products (CFP), from the Sustainable Management Promotion Organization, for six of its products*, including H-beams. Yamato Steel is the first company in the steel industry in Japan to acquire these two types of certifications.
In the future, we will further expand our recognition through sales activities and actively promote the development and diffusion of eco-friendly products.

* Certified products: H-Beams, I-Beams, Channel Steel, Steel Sheet Piles, High-spec H-Beams, and Patterned H-Beams, listed in Yamato Steel’s product catalog.

H-Beams

I-Beams

Channel Steel

Steel Sheet Piles

High-spec H-Beams

Patterned H-Beams

What is the EcoLeaf?

  • The Japan EPD Program by SuMPO is a certification program that uses a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) method and calculates and discloses quantitative environmental information on the environmental impact of value chains at each stage, ranging from raw material procurement to production, distribution, use, disposal, and recycling.
  • The EcoLeaf complies with ISO 14025 standards and is referred to as a Type Ⅲ environmental declaration (EPD). A third party externally verifies this certification from the perspective of reliability and transparency.

Website of Sustainable Management Promotion Organization (SuMPO)

EcoLeaf

What is the CFP?

CFP is an abbreviation for Carbon Footprint of Products.
CFP is one of the systems to convert greenhouse gases emitted during the entire product life cycle into carbon dioxide emissions and quantify them to realize a low-carbon society.
This system can be used as an incentive for both businesses and consumers to take action to reduce greenhouse gases.

SuMPO EPD Japan Website

CFP

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