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Yamazaki Baking sees its role as contributing to social progress and cultural advancement through the management of its businesses. In its environmental conservation activities as well, the company operates on the basic concept that all of its business activities should take the environment into account.
Yamazaki Baking sets numerical targets based on the voluntary environmental action plan of the Japan Baking Industry Association and is undertaking continuous initiatives to reduce its impact on the environment by introducing cutting-edge technologies and facilities, using energy efficiently, controlling waste emissions, and carrying out recycling. Additionally, as a member of the local community, Yamazaki Baking aggressively participates in local environmental conservation activities.
Yamazaki Baking’s products are created from wheat, eggs, sugar and baker’s yeast, ingredients that represent the bounty of nature. All of them bless the earth’s healthy natural environment for their existence. Yamazaki Baking will continue to take active steps to protect the earth’s environment in order to provide safe and delicious products.
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Implementing the latest energy saving facilities and technologies to achieve effective energy use
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To reduce emissions of the greenhouse gas CO2, Yamazaki Baking makes efficient use of energy both in the production phase of its products, and the logistics phase when delivering those products to stores.
The company implements a cogeneration system that delivers heat and electric energy efficiently in facilities where fresh products are made every day.
It also uses air conditioning facilities with heat pumps that achieve higher energy efficiency than conventional gas or steam equipment, as well as cleaner energy sources such as solar power generation systems.
Every day, Yamazaki Baking’s delivery vehicles take fresh products to its customers, so distribution is also a major part of the company’s environmental efforts.
In addition to promoting environmentally conscious driving, it uses a cutting-edge delivery management system to optimize delivery routes, thereby reducing the number of vehicles and delivery distances.
The company also implements fuel-efficient and low-emission vehicles such as hybrid and natural gas vehicles, and is currently testing electric vehicles as well.
Energy efficient cogeneration system
Hybird trucks reduce CO 2
emissios by about 18％ per vehicle compared with conventional trucks.
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Effective use of food resources and reduction of plastic
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| As part of its efforts to create a sustainable society, Yamazaki Baking makes effective use of limited resources by making use of food byproducts and cutting down on packaging.
One of the priorities in the company’s daily production activities is to prevent food loss by using valuable food resources without waste.
To this end, Yamazaki Baking considers food byproducts that arise in the process of producing its products as a valuable resource.
For example, bread crusts that are cut off in the production stage of certain products can be effectively reprocessed to create confectionaries and bread crumbs, or reused as animal feed, through the appropriate quality management processes.
The company is also simplifying and downsizing its packaging as much as possible while still guaranteeing food safety and uncompromised taste, in order to limit its use of plastic and reduce household waste.
The plastic banju containers used to transport bread are also recycled to make new containers.
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