Strategic Map

In order to minimize recognized risks and turn them into opportunities, we are actively engaged in carbon neutrality (CN) from the three perspectives of “development business,” “sales promotional planning” and “branding.” As a distribution trading company, we emphasize how we conduct business in a way that we collaborate with suppliers and buyers. As we implement our Green Growth Strategy, we are engaged in PPA model business as a “development business” and Green Ball Project as a “sales promotional planning activity.”

Development Business

◆PPA model business

In October 2021, we joined a PPA model business through a business alliance with Daigas Energy Co., Ltd., which is an operating company in the Daigas Group.The main targets are supplier manufacturers of the Company and factory users, and we aim to use the Company’s technology and funding to support procurement of renewable energy and decarbonization by business partners, at the same time as contributing to the reduction of supply chain emissions that fall within the Company’s own Scope 3.

◆PPA Model Business Case Studies

“DayZpower,” which is a joint brand of the Company and Daigas Energy Co., Ltd., introduced a 439KW solar power facility at the Kaisei Mill (Ashigara, Kanagawa) of Nippon Paper Crecia Co., Ltd., a mid-sized company in the Nippon Paper Group, which is also a supplier of the Company, and concluded a PPA agreement for the supply of electricity from renewable energy for 20 years.

This is expected to have the effect of reducing annual emissions by 197t-CO2.(Scheduled to go online in March 2023) Supporting the introduction of renewable energy for suppliers contributes to the reduction of CO2 through supply chain collaboration including the Company.

Sales Promotional Planning Activity

◆Green Ball Project

The Green Ball Project that has been running since 2008 focuses on the effect of environmentally friendly products reducing emissions (baseline comparison method, program-type reduction activity), and has counted the cumulative contribution to reduction in emissions using the Company’s proprietary calculation method (GBP Protocol). As a distribution trading company, by expanding the use of products with low environmental impact, we contribute to curbing emissions in “C11: Use of Sold Products,” for which the total amount is difficult to ascertain.