Takuwa believes that a “world in which an abundance of water is equally available to all humanity” is a “sustainable world”, and the Company is working to protect abundant water and ensure that it is equally available to all people through our corporate activities.
In the process, Takwa has identified eight materialities. By taking steps to protect water and working towards the goals in stages, Takwa aims to ultimately solve social issues related to the environment, poverty, and education.
Installing sensors to slow the rate of resource depletion will protect water and create an environment where water is supplied fairly to people. In the environment, water will be abundantly distributed among people, and a society will be created where people with peace of mind, who are free from conflict, respect each other's diversity and human rights, and work with vitality. With a spirit of altruism, Takuwa supports employees who have left the Company to start their own businesses in order to create jobs around the world and eradicate poverty. At the same time, through education, Takuwa provides its technologies to the world. Once profits have been generated, Takwa provides an educational environment for children who do not have access to education. With the altruistic spirit, Takuwa spreads its products around the world, establishes a model for solving social issues, and cyclically runs the model, believing that it is possible to reproduce a sustainable world widely on the planet and eventually eliminate war.
As a measure to adapt to the impact (risk) of climate change on business, Takuwa has already formulated a business continuity plan (BCP), assuming earthquakes. Going forward, the Company will review the details of the BCP to include flooding as an anticipated event and improve its own business continuity management (BCM). In response to the extreme heat in recent years, which the Secretary-General of the United Nations described as “the boiling of the earth” rather than “global warming,” Takuwa will strengthen its employee health management system, including measures against heatstroke, as part of its safety and health activities currently being carried out company-wide in accordance with ISO45001.
In addition, Takuwa will build wireless networks for water level gauges and use the networks as infrastructures to connect various sensor devices to develop climate change adaptation businesses (e.g., fault diagnosis systems).
As a business that helps realize a carbon-free society, Takuwa is developing sensors that are able to run with renewable energy (environmental power generation). On the other hand, for our sensors already installed, Takuwa will install more solar panels to use as much sunlight as possible to reduce their power consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.
The products Takuwa shipped in a year reduce CO2 emissions by more than the amount of CO2 emitted in its annual production activities, and the Company keeps on striving to reduce the emissions.
In parallel with it, Takuwa will investigate the impact of its products on the environment (whether its products have any elements that cause greenhouse gases to be generated) in its production processes and after installation, and disclose the information obtained through the investigation.
Now, Takuwa is planning to keep developing products that help energy conservation and help improve the global environment through its corporate activities. Also, Takuwa is planning to introduce “Green Product Certificate (provisional name)” to certify products with particularly excellent environmental performance as “Takuwa Green Products (provisional name)”.
Almost all of our products are based on a environmental-conscious design for environmental conservation (*), and they contribute to energy saving and space saving. Takuwa believes that it can make a significant contribution to solving global warming, resource conservation, waste disposal, and other environmental issues by developing products and selling products in accordance with the concept
*. Resource saving (product size and weight reduction), energy-saving design (low power consumption), long-term usability (long-life design, common housings and components), recycling (use of recyclable materials), and reduction of environmental pollutants (in compliance with RoHS) (in accordance with our “Design Standards for Environmentally-Friendly Products”)The installation of our products can reduce the scale of damage caused by floods and other types of natural disasters, thereby suppressing the consumption and depletion of forests and other natural resources required for reconstruction.
As a vision for the future, Takuwa is planning to build a system to reuse water used in evaluation tests at its own production facilities and have its head office, branches, and sales offices devise ways to use water to improve the local water cycle.
In the “Environmental Policy” established in 2017, Takuwa has stipulated that it strives to prevent pollution in the manufacturing process (development, design, production, inspection, and shipping) at its production facilities, and review and improve its measures against possible pollution, and be involved in its own products from installation after shipment, maintenance after installation, and removal, conducting business in environmentally friendly ways to give no adverse impact on water.
The Company has already obtained ISO14001 certification for international environmental management, and has established an environmental management system that complies with it and a scheme to prevent environmental pollution. Currently, our production facilities are not manufacturing any products that cause wastewater, soot, or noise to be generated, and the Company is regularly inspecting the factories of its partner companies, who are our stakeholders, to ensure that they apply an environmental conservation system equivalent to that of Takuwa. For any new companies that Takuwa will outsource for our products, Takuwa requires them to establish a system equivalent to that of Takuwa, too, to ensure that the Company is surely based on proper environmental conservation systems.
As a town developer, sensors made by Takuwa are intended to protect towns from natural disasters. Therefore, when its sensors are implemented in society and the number of its sensors installed increases, the extent of areas affected by a natural disaster is kept to a minimum, which in turn leads to a reduction in the amount of forest and mineral resources required for recovery work.
Takuwa believes that curbing the global depletion of resources will contribute to the conservation and regeneration of biodiversity. Specifically, based on the recognition that reducing the damage from disasters and contributing to the conservation of forests and secondary forests lead to the continuation of the bases of existence of all life (oxygen, food, and habitat) and the maintenance of ecosystems, Takuwa has introduced an environmental management system (EMS) based on ISO14001 and it is working to minimize the impact that its business activities have on the environment and society.
As a future project, Takuwa is planning to investigate whether the installation of its sensors has any impact on rivers, forests, and soil environments, and disclose the data obtained from the investigation.
Since obtaining ISO9001 (quality) in 2001, Takuwa has obtained ISO14001 (environment), ISO45001 (occupational health and safety), and ISO27001 (information security) certificates and deployed robust management systems to pursue the quality of its products and the safety of our customers and other stakeholders.
With the systems, keeping up with the demands of the times, Takuwa is able to maintain the quality of our products and services and their safety by complying with laws and regulations from all angles, both inside and outside the Company, promoting safety measures, establishing an emergency response system for accidents caused by its products, informing customers of information about safety of its products, and educating its employees about product safety.
Takuwa is committed to realizing a sustainable world based on water conservation. So, Takuwa will not be afraid of new technologies that emerge every day and conduct appropriate risk assessments to respond to the digital society that is emerging due to changes in the industrial structure caused by technological innovation in order to take on challenges with the aim of developing new sensors beyond boundaries of its existing main products and markets.
Takuwa believes that the only way for a company to survive and thrive in the present society, where the future is uncertain and chaotic, is to always take risks and take on challenges.
Therefore, Takuwa has introduced ISO45001 (occupational health and safety management system) in 2021 to raise awareness within the Company of the importance and concept of risk assessment. Next, in order to respond to the digital society, Takuwa has obtained ISO27001 certification in 2022 and built an information security system, and in 2024, Takuwa established a DX-specialized section obligated to carry out important special tasks ordered by management. Under the totally new organizational structure, Takuwa engineers have begun developing sensors that will create new value in fields that have not existed in Takuwa's history.
“Dynamic equilibrium means that life continues to change in order to remain unchanged” (Dynamic Equilibrium, by Shinichi Fukuoka).
This also applies to the organization of a company. At first glance, the overall appearance of a company may not change, but its organization cannot survive (or be maintained) unless it constantly replaces new human resources and values in response to changes in the outside world, just like the metabolic activity of human cells.
As a manufacturing company with 160 employees, Takuwa is based on the principle that “a company is its people.” Its medium- to long-term growth is determined by the skills, knowledge, and techniques of each employee and it is obvious that these are essential factors for the survival of a company. Takuwa has no objection to them being important “assets”.
Therefore, as a prerequisite for hiring human resources, Takuwa aims to create a system that allows individuals to maximize their abilities, regardless of gender, age, nationality, or other attributes, respecting diversity. At the same time, Takuwa responds to changes both inside and outside the Company and flexibly improves the work environment so that each individual can freely demonstrate their abilities.
In parallel with the efforts, Takuwa is focusing on coaching with the aim of drawing out each employee's potential, maximizing their ability to think for themselves, think logically, and manage through specialized training, and thereby improving the market value of its employees.
Our ultimate goal is to have many elite employees, rather than a small number of elite employees.
As a prerequisite for employment, Takuwa respects diversity and hires employees without regard to gender, age, nationality or other attributes, and assigns personnel in an equitable manner. Takuwa has established an equal opportunity policy that prohibits all forms of discrimination, and management is working to achieve equal opportunity.
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The social issue that Takuwa is trying to solve is education.
In this world, there are children who are unable to have access to education due to various circumstances. With respect to all children who will create the future of the world, Takuwa hopes to create a world where they have access to fair education through true inclusive education.
In the process of creating a sustainable world where water is abundant, Takuwa wants to improve the educational environment for children in order to build their future. Ultimately, Takuwa aims to contribute to the spread of fully inclusive education on a global scale.
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