About Us

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　As a manufacturing company, we make environmental preservation a top priority in the execution of our day-to-day activities.
　Recognizing our social responsibility to help protect the environment, we have established an environmental management system principally modeled on the ISO 14001 certification, as part of ongoing efforts to reinforce our initiatives for the preservation of the global environment and the assurance of safety for residents of the areas in which we operate.
　Through technological innovations of the equipment and reinforcement of management system, we are taking all possible steps to prevent environmental degradation and ensure operational safety.
　Furthermore, we will work to alleviate environmental load through innovations in our manufacturing technologies, including reductions in energy intensity and the unit cost of production.
　The useful life of titanium products is long, and the material can be recycled. When we examine titanium’s impact on the global environment at every product life stage from production through utilization to scrapping in LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) studies, titanium products are found to be very environmentally friendly. Leveraging the strengths of our proprietary technology, we will ensure the effective utilization of this valuable resource by aggressively promoting titanium recycling.

Large EB Refining Furnace

　Toho Titanium currently operates two types of smelting furnaces: a vacuum arc remelting (VAR) furnace and an electron beam (EB) furnace. Compared with the VAR furnace, the EB furnace makes considerable use of titanium scrap as a raw material, and thus contributes to the recycling of this valuable resource. We completed a new large-scale EB furnace in Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka, with an eye toward the full utilization of titanium scrap which is expected to increase in accordance with increase of titanium demand.
      The design concept for the new EB furnace allows for effective utilization of resources by:

1. Responding to users’ needs through the manufacturing of the world’s largest ingots (wide breadth), and by.
2. Making possible the recycling of large clumps of titanium scrap, the smelting of which has proven problematic in Japan until now.

　The new EB furnace enables the production of ingots of a larger scale than is possible using our other EB furnace. It is a cutting-edge facility that can make use of titanium scrap in pieces or clumps of any size.

VAR:Vacuum Arc Remelting EB: Electron Beam

Titanium ingot cast from titanium sponge melted using an electron beam (EB) furnace

Contributing to Local Communities

Operating and growing as part of the local community

　For many years, the Company has pursued a policy of growing with its local communities, and has been pursuing enterprising initiatives to fulfill its local social responsibilities. For instance, we have supported education and training activities at schools, while encouraging understanding of our operations by organizing plant visits for local elementary school pupils, displaying titanium products at community events and so on.
    In addition, we hold the Toho Summer Festival every year, to promote meaningful exchange between our employees and members of the local public.

The Toho Titanium Soccer Club

    The Company’s soccer club, whose members are all employees of Toho Group, belongs to the Kanto Soccer League, and is a purely amateur “company team.” Prior to the foundation of the J.League (Japan’s first professional football league) in 1993, the club played in the Japan Soccer League Division2 (equivalent to the present J.League Division2(J2)).
    At that time, our club once played against Sumitomo Metal Industries’ football club, the forerunner of the Kashima Antlers of J1, for which former Japan National Team coach Zico played.
   In the 2007 Kanagawa Prefecture soccer championship tournament, which also functions as a preliminary round in the Emperor's Cup all-Japan soccer championship, the Toho Titanium Soccer Club became the first company-owned team to take first place. As a result, the team qualified for the Emperor's Cup tournament for the 5th time, after an interval of 15 years.

Source: Kanto Soccer League (http://www.kanto-sl.jp )

We also support local youth soccer activities.

　With the aim of creating opportunities to build better communication with the community, we have made our corporate sports grounds available to youth soccer teams in Chigasaki City since 1998. Extending this program, we have provided support for the development of other youth soccer programs, and established the “Toho Southern Cup” tournament with the aim of promoting friendship between those organizations and our own corporate soccer club. With our successful holding of the inaugural tournament in 2002, we help young soccer hopefuls make their dreams come true.