Fukuchiyama plant reform and path to decarbonization

After 40 years of long service to the heating industry, our factory in Fukuchiyama has been renovated and continues its transformation towards low carbon production.

The walls and roofs have been renovated, thermaly isolated, parking space increased and new annex buidling is coming to face increase of production.

The renovated roof will soon accommodate more than 100kWh of solar panels on the maximum usable surface to cover the maximum energy requirement of our production. The photovoltaic panel system should cover more than 85% of the plant's energy needs during the day and more than 60% of the total consumption (day and night).

To fight global warming and in order to promote a low carbon society, we intend to reach 100% of low carbon energy sourcing before 2030. In order to achieve this goal, we will put additional solar PV and battery storage system in the near future.

After the installation of this PV system, we will progressively switch our fleet of company cars to electric vehicles to be able to charge them from solar on weekend when the plant is not running and using battery as V2H system for back-up storage of energy, making our plant more resilient.

As electricity consumption is the main source of our CO2 emission we are doing the maximum to quickly pivot our production to low carbon production.We will keep our customer update on our decarbonization progress.

The plant before renovation

The plant after renovation