Carbon Neutrality

The Toho Titanium Group has declared “carbon neutrality,” accomplishing virtually net zero CO₂ emissions, as a global challenge in order to realize a sustainable society. We engage in a variety of measures toward the realization of a decarbonized society.

We’ve set the goal of reducing our CO₂ emissions by more than 40% from the 2018 level by 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality by 2050.

To realize carbon-free titanium, we developed a new process based on the electro-refining of titanium ore reduced with aluminum. By innovating the original process, we succeeded in obtaining pure titanium metal, on a pilot scale, of the same quality as realized using the current Kroll Process. However, after examining this process in terms of upward scalability, we found that it would be challenging to bring to commercialization. We plan to continue pursuing efforts to improve the refining process by exploring alternative technological approaches based on the wealth of knowledge we have built up to date.