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.

Our corporate group is aiming to reduce CO₂ emissions by approximately 40% from 2018 in 2030 and accomplish carbon neutrality by 2050 through measures based on a new titanium refining technology.

Our company has engaged in the joint development with a U.S. company whose major business is the research into titanium refining, partially receiving support from the Strategic Energy Conservation Technology Innovation Program managed by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO). As a result, we concluded that this technology is extremely promising from the viewpoint of reducing manufacturing costs, energy consumption, CO₂ emissions, etc., and we launched a demonstration test at a pilot plant in FY 2022.
This new titanium refining technology will comprise the core of the vision for carbon neutrality in 2050 and we aim to put it into practice in 2025.

This technology development is described in the “R&D” chapter, so please refer to it. Moreover, this new titanium refining technology as well as cutting-edge research and development our company has been promoting, such as the technology for the direct manufacturing of titanium foil by electrocrystallization and high-performance porous titanium sheets, was introduced as a PR article in the Nature Index 2021 Materials Science.

Nature Index 2021 Materials Science page (English):
https://www.nature.com/articles/d42473-021-00166-8

Click for more information on the new refining technology.

Our corporate group adopted CO₂-free energy for the Chigasaki Plant, part of the Wakamatsu Plant and the Hitachi Plant in FY 2021 and the Kurobe Plant in FY 2023, respectively. We will promote the adoption of CO₂-free energy to reduce carbon dioxide emission.