Second Stage “Yokohama Forever Forest” Planting Held in China

Yokohama Rubber reports more tree planting activities, this time in the People’s Republic. On Saturday October 17 some 250 people connected to three Yokohama plants in China attended a jointly-staged second-phase tree-planting ceremony as part of Yokohama Rubber's "Yokohama Forever Forest" project. Workers and their families from Hangzhou Yokohama Tire Co., Ltd. (production and sale of passenger car tyres), Yokohama Hamatitie (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd. (production and sale of sealants for passenger cars), and Yokohama Hoses & Coupling (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd. (production and sale of hydraulic hoses) joined Yokohama Rubber's overseas trainees and other representatives in the planting of around 2,400 seedlings of trees indigenous to the local area.

This second stage planting follows up the initial event held on November 1, 2008, when approximately 1,200 participants planting 12,000 or so seedlings. All in all, more than 110,000 trees have been planted worldwide as part of the  “Yokohama Forever Forest” project. By the time the programme is concluded in time for the company’s 100th anniversary in 2017, Yokohama plans to have planted around half a million trees.