Yamaha Motor opens carbon-neutral painting production line in Japan

MANILA: Yamaha Motor Company Limited has opened its new CN1 carbon-neutral mass-production painting line in its Iwata Main Factory facility. 

The said painting production line officially began churning out motorcycle fuel tanks on February 20, and instead of depending on fossil fuels for work processes, it uses electricity. Per Yamaha Motor, it is the first of its kind in the global motorcycle industry. 

As further explained by the Japanese marque, the typical painting production line heavily relies on fossil fuels for numerous processes. Examples cited by Yamaha include the following:

• Heating paint
• Achieving optimal temperature for paint booth
• Achieving optimal humidity for paint booth
• Baking and heating for painted products

For all the aforementioned, the Yamaha Iawata Main Factory CN1 painting production line uses electricity, which is seen to reduce significantly the said facility’s overall carbon emissions. 

Additionally, the new all-electric production line simplifies the preparation process for applying paint, leading to shorter production times. Eschewing the use of fossil fuels, the brand shared, also makes for a more comfortable working environment for its paint production line employees. 

To note, the newly opened all-electric painting production line in the Iwata Main Factory is a part of the “Yamaha Motor Group Environmental Plan 2025” - a strategy that will help transform the Shizuoka-based company’s entire supply chain and business activities to become carbon neutral by the year 2050. 

On a global scale, Yamaha Motor has also advanced its sustainability goal by investing in Electric Motion, a French electric vehicle company that focuses on all-electric off-road motorcycles. 

In Indonesia, the company also rolled out a sizable mangrove planting project with the aid of YL Forest Corporation Limited. 

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