Yokohama granted integrated ISO 14001 certification

In August, some 14 years after its first plant obtained ISO 14001 certification, Yokohama achieved company-wide integrated certification under ISO 14001. The Environmental Management Systems (EMS) certification covers Yokohama Rubber’s nine locations within Japan: the company’s head office and eight domestic production sites (Hiratsuka, Mie, Mishima, Shinshiro, Onomichi, Ibaraki, Nagano and Hiratsuka-East).

Yokohama Rubber says it “promotes environmental management with ISO 14001 at its heart” and shares that it has endeavoured to obtain ISO 14001 certification for more than a decade. The first individual Yokohama plant to be granted ISO 14001 was its Mishima facility, in July 1998. In March 2007 the company’s head office became the last facility to gain individual certification, and Yokohama Rubber says the decision was taken to obtain company-wide integrated ISO 14001 certification in order to “realise uniform-quality, high-level EMS under the company-wide environmental policy for the further improvement of environmental management.” Efforts to obtain this integrated certification commenced in August 2011.

In addition to Yokohama Rubber itself, Japanese five production sites operated by group companies and 13 international group companies have acquired ISO 14001 certification.