SUSTAINABILITY
NEWS RELEASE & TOPICS
SUSTAINABILITY NEWS RELEASE
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February 29, 2024YKK Achieves Top Rating for Climate Action: Named to CDP's Prestigious 'A List'
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January 11, 2024Effects of the Noto Peninsula Earthquake in 2024
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November 14, 2023YKK's 2023 Report: Leading the Way in Sustainability with 46.9% Greenhouse Gas Reduction
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November 7, 2023YKK Center Park's Furusato-no-Mori (Hometown Forest) Is Designated Toyama Prefecture's First Nature Coexistence Site
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June 5, 2023YKK Achieves 100% Renewable Energy Purchasing at 31 Sites Worldwide
Efforts to Achieve the YKK Sustainability Vision 2050 Accelerating at All Locations Globally -
May 25, 2023Upcycling Minds Think Alike
ERCA, Patagonia, and YKK team up to deploy circularity with the chem-tech innovation REVECOL® -
March 15, 2023YKK recognized as a Supplier Engagement Leader, CDP's highest rating for supplier engagement on climate change
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March 2, 2023YKK Debuts New Corporate Logo
Emphasis Placed on Sustainability, Speed, and Quality -
December 6, 2022YKK Reports 18.2% Decrease in GHG Emissions
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November 8, 2022YKK Signs the United Nations Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) COP 15 Business Statement for Mandatory Assessment and Disclosure
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October 13, 2022YKK Develops AquaGuard® NATULON®,
an Environmentally Friendly Water Repellent Zipper
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May 19, 2022YKK Digital Showroom Links Digital and Real Worlds
Company Marks One-Year Anniversary of New Communication Platform -
April 21, 2022YKK Joins Ellen MacArthur Foundation Network
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October 5, 2021YKK Awarded Grand Prize in 12th EST Transportation Environment Awards
Company recognized for public transportation initiatives in Kurobe, Japan -
June 22, 2021YKK's new AcroPlating® technology significantly reduces
environmental impacts of metal plating
Life Cycle Assessment confirms the elimination of harmful substances -
March 18, 2021Science Based Targets Initiative Approves YKK's Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Reduction Targets -YKK Targets Consistent With Reductions Required To Keep Global Warming to 1.5°C-
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December 14, 2020YKK Center Park "Furusato-no-Mori"Initiative Uses Technology to Visualize CO2 Absorption
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October 13, 2020YKK COMMITS TO ACHIEVING CLIMATE NEUTRALITY BY 2050
Sustainable trims leader announces Sustainability Vision 2050 addressing climate change, material resources, water resources, chemical management and human rights -
June 10, 2020Shanghai YKK Zipper Co., Ltd. to Donate Protective Clothing to Kurobe City
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March 17, 2020YKK Founder Tadao Yoshida's Sayings for Children Books Donated to Boards of Education
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January 16, 2020YKK Addresses the Ocean Plastic Problem With New NATULON® Ocean Sourced™ Zipper Collection
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December 18, 2019YKK Portugal Selected for Portugal's Melhores Empresas Para Trabalhar de 2019 Rankings
Named as one of the best companies to work for in the country -
December 17, 2019Donating YKK Touch and Feel Book Updated Edition to Kurobe City
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June 25, 2019YKK Announces Environmental Vision 2050
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May 27, 2019"Children of the Sea" Calligraphy Exhibition - A Joint Project by STUDIO4°C and Craft Lab by YKK
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March 11, 2019YKK Becomes Only Zipper Manufacturer in Bangladesh to be Certified by Alliance
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November 20, 2018A First for Toyama: Environment Minister's Award in the Green Roof Category of the Green Roof/Green Wall Technology Competition (Passive Town Phase I and II Town Blocks)
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November 14, 2018YKK Obtains Platinum Kurumin Certification
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October 3, 2018YKK's QuickFree® Zipper Wins Good Design Award 2018 Best 100
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September 25, 2018YKK's QuickFree® Zipper Wins the Prime Minister's Award (Grand Prize) at the 12th Kids Design Awards
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August 24, 2018YKK's QuickFree® Zipper Wins Kids Design Award 2018
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July 5, 2018Building K, Third Block, of Passive Town Becomes the First in Japan to Be Named Winner in the 2017 LEED Homes Awards
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April 10, 2018YKK Wins the Fujisankei Group Prize of the 27th Annual Global Environment Awards
-For Passive Town Efforts to Build a Sustainable Society and Achieve Regional Revitalization -
March 23, 2018YKK Corporation Wins "New Diversity Management Selection 100" Award
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January 26, 2018Passive Town Obtains the Top Five-Star Rating (☆☆☆☆☆) Under the Building-Housing Energy-efficiency Labeling System (BELS)
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October 30, 2017YKK's Kurobe Manufacturing Center Receives the METI Minister's Award for Excellent Green Factories
- YKK AP's Kurobe Ogyu Plant Receives the Japan Greenery Research and Development Center's Chairman Award - -
October 6, 2017Enjoy the full breadth of window culture at YKK AP's "Windowology 10th Anniversary Exhibition:The World Through the Window"
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September 28, 2017YKK Wins the Highest Award at the JAPAN OEKO-TEX® AWARD 2017
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February 8, 2017ASHRAE Technology Awards (Global Level) YKK80 Building Awarded Top Prize - A First for Japan
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November 30, 2016ECO-DYE®, YKK Technology for Waterless Dyeing of Zippers, Wins Good Design Award 2016
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October 20, 2016ASHRAE Regional Technology Awards (Asian Region)
YKK80 Building Awarded Top Prize - A First for Japan -
September 14, 2016YKK Center Park's Furusato-no-Mori Receives "Excellent Stage 3" Certification in SEGES Sodateru Midori Category
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September 6, 2016KidZania Tokyo Limited Time Only Event-"Zipper Week" Sponsored by YKK Providing a Space for Children to Experience "Japanese Monozukuri Culture"
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September 1, 2016YKK80 Building Receives the BELS (Building-Housing Energy-efficiency Labeling System) Evaluation Top Rating of 5 Stars
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March 1, 2016The YKK80 Building Becomes the First Office Building in Japan to Obtain Top LEED-BD+C (Core and Shell)Certification (Platinum) in Japan
SUSTAINABILITY TOPICS
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YKK Sustainability Journal Published
Updated: March 3, 2021
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YKK fights viruses with a new line of zippers treated with
Polygiene's ViralOff®
Updated: January 18, 2021
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YKK El Salvador S.A. de C.V. builds a wall at a local school to protect students from crime
Updated: July 21, 2020
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YKK Announces its Collaboration with Oceanworks®, the Leading Marketplace for Materials Made From Recycled Ocean Plastic
Updated: May 14, 2020
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YKK Signs Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action
Updated: March 3, 2020
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Five Japanese Companies Unite for Socially-vulnerable People of Bangladesh
Updated: March 15, 2019
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Window Exhibition to Show at The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo in Autumn 2019
By Window Research InstituteUpdated: November 30, 2018 -
"Craft Lab by YKK" Participates in the Monomachi Festival, a Monozukuri Event in the Southern Part of Tokyo's Taito Ward
By YKK (Japan)Updated: July 12, 2018 -
YKK AP INDONESIA
Donating Personal Computer & Printer Sets to Junior High School near Factory
By YKK AP INDONESIAUpdated: June 4, 2018 -
YKK AP INDONESIA Develop Partnership "Bank Sampah" with Local Communities
By YKK AP INDONESIAUpdated: May 25, 2018 -
YKK Group's support for sister city relationships
By YKK CORPORATION OF AMERICAUpdated: April 26, 2018 -
Local Grade-schoolers Make and Present a Picture-card Show on YKK Founder Tadao Yoshida
By YKK (Japan)Updated: January 31, 2018 -
YKK and YKK AP Exhibit at EcoPro 2017-International Exhibition on the Environment and Energy, One of Japan's Largest Eco Exhibitions
By YKK(Japan)Updated: January 17, 2018 -
"Iro Iro Sagashi," a Hands-on Nature Event Held for Local Nursery School Children
By YKK(Japan)Updated: January 15, 2018 -
50th Cleanup Held
By YKK (Japan)Updated: January 10, 2018 -
Shanghai YKK Zipper Co., Ltd. Donates Books to an Elementary School
- Builds Bridges of Exchange with Love, Making Dreams Come True with Books -
By SHANGHAI YKK ZIPPER CO., LTD.Updated: December 21, 2017 -
2017 YKK Asia Group Kids Football Clinic (AKFC)
By YKK HOLDING ASIA PTE. LTD.Updated: December 13, 2017 -
YKK Malaysia Makes Donation to Old Folks Ungku Mohsin
By YKK (MALAYSIA) SDN. BHD.Updated: September 14, 2017 -
YKK India Carries Out School Renovations As Part Of Their CSR Activities
By YKK INDIA PRIVATE LIMITEDUpdated: September 12, 2017 -
YKK ZIPPER (SHENZHEN) donates school supplies to a School in a Mountainous Region
By YKK ZIPPER (SHENZHEN)Updated: July 25, 2017 -
Sustainability is at the heart of YKK El Salvador's Manufacturing Process
By YKK El SalvadorUpdated: June 5, 2017 -
YKK USA Marietta donates school supplies to Lockheed Elementary
By YKK (U.S.A.)Updated: January 22, 2017