This year’s theme was “We can do it! Eco-Lifestyle with a 50% CO2 Reduction”. Participants filled the entire venue featuring exhibitions from 758 companies and organizations.
We were the only one to exhibit an interior-related product. Many visitors stepped inside our carpet covered booth.
1,000 m2 of our new “SUMI GREEN SG-400” product absorbs as much CO2 in a year as 100 cedars do!
Sumitomo Corporation participated in the "Eco-Products 2008" environment exhibition held from December 11 through 13 at TOKYO BIG SIGHT. The annual event, held for the 10th time, is one of Japan's largest environment exhibitions featuring a wide variety of environmental products and services.
Since the 2008 G-8 Toyako summit agreed on CO2 reduction, society is becoming more and more interested in environmental issues. Under such circumstances, the event attracted a record 173,000 participants.
At the exhibition booth, we introduced the recycled carpet tile produced by our subsidiary, Sumisho Interior International Inc. This product is processed from a recycled textile made from used carpet tile and plastic bottles. At the exhibition, we unveiled the new "SUMI GREEN" line of recycled carpet tile, which realized "carbon neutralization" (substantial elimination of CO2) from manufacture through disposal by offsetting carbon through the purchase of UN certified CO2 emission credits.
We are the first to produce the carpet tile that realizes carbon neutralization.
Sumisho Interior International Inc. will aim at creating a low carbon society by further promoting environmental products and disseminating green procurement certified products.
