Certain scenarios for the future of the planet beg the question of whether or not the riches and conveniences we desire and pursue as humans are true amenities. If you look at the price that has been paid for that, to note climate change and how the ozone layer has been depleted, those riches and conveniences seem no more than one-off appeasements. Faced with a deteriorating global environment, people and businesses today need to rethink what they are doing and where they are heading. As inhabitants of this planet, we at Daiwa Chemical Industries are searching for ways to give a physical shape to a desirable future and to answer the amenities question by finding harmony with the natural world.
Environmental policy
Daiwa Chemical Industries recognizes that saving the planet is one of the greatest challenges facing mankind in the 21st century. With that in mind, the company undertakes CSR and compliance by making it corporate environmental and safety policy to "contribute to society by applying our advanced technologies and creative strengths to supplying safe, sound quality and easy-to-use products."
Product development at Daiwa Chemical Industries is driven by concerted efforts and has resulted in a slew of products that have proven their usefulness, to note our antibacterial mildew-proofing agents, deodorizers, highly safe flame-extinguishing agents, insect repellants, VOC and formalin trapping agents, CO2 emissions measures, cooling and warming agents, etc.
As an environmentally-conscious company, we want to make the world a better place by developing eco-friendly technologies and products.
Daiwa Chemical Industries caught a big break in 2002 when, amidst the "health" and "sanitation" trends, home appliance manufacturers began releasing negative ion generators and storefronts became flooded with competing products. Having foreseen the boom coming, Daiwa Chemical Industries developed a negative ion treatment agent for textiles the year before and marketed it to manufacturers.
What the development team did that was important here was to numerically quantify and evaluate similar agents. They purchased equipment for measuring negative ion concentration and did measurements of textile products before and after treatment, as well as around waterfalls and in forests where negative ion concentrations are said to be high, and in train stations, department stores and offices. The data was compiled into tables, which facilitate comparison, and shown to textile manufacturers.
Daiwa Chemical Industries was also the first in Japan to develop a testing method for evaluating the quality, properties and performance of insect repellants and mildew-proofing agents. In fact, JIS staff visited our labs to view our work as reference for standards they were working on.
Not only our cooling and warming agents but all deodorants, insect repellants, mildew-proofing agents and other products that Daiwa Chemical Industries was the first to develop and release were put through internal validations on top of stringent domestic and international quality controls, in order to confirm their safety and high quality before ever being supplied to customers.
