Zipper technology developer YKK  has received recognition from Japan’s ministry for the environment for conservation efforts at its headquarters in Toyama Prefecture.

Its manufacturing facility at Kurobe has won recognition from the ministry as a ‘Nature Coexistence Site’, thanks to the company’s tree-planting programme there. YKK has said its aim is to create “a factory in a forest”; it has committed to planting 20,000 trees of 20 native species on the site by 2034. No non-native species are permitted.

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