Sumitomo Forestry has set a ratio of products that use certified timber and plantation trees from the procurement of import wood board products such as plywood as a 2020 target and it strives to expand this. Among these products, JAS Plywood that uses 50% or more FSC-certified or PEFC-certified timber and sustainable plantation timber is marketed as KIKORIN-PLYWOOD, and some of its revenue is invested in plantation businesses in Indonesia. This product made using 50% or more certified timber or plantation timber, was praised as being environmentally conscious. It received an encouragement prize in the 1st EcoPro Awards* on September 12, 2018. It accounted for about 11% of our plywood sales volume during fiscal 2019, amounting to about 51,417 m³. We will contribute to environmental protection by expanding this volume by about two-fold in fiscal 2020 to 100,000 m³.
* Hosted by the Japan Environmental Management Association for Industry. It was established in fiscal 2004 in order to help further develop and spread the use of Japanese eco-products by broadly communicating information about eco-products among current and prospective clients while also supporting the efforts of the relevant suppliers. The EcoProducts Awards were renovated in fiscal 2018, now presented as the EcoPro Awards.