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Initiatives in Products and Services

Basic Philosophy

The Nichirei Group proposes manufacturing and services that are conscious of minimizing the environmental impact throughout the supply chain.
As a food-related corporate group that is greatly affected by climate change, the Group is working on reducing CO₂ emissions in its products.
We will also work to reduce, reuse, and recycle waste in order to use the limited resources of the Earth as sustainably as possible. For bioresources that the Group is unable to use efficiently and economically or is unable to use completely, it is focusing on reusing these bounties of nature in animal feed or fertilizer and returning them to nature.

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Management System

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Initiatives

Plastic Reduction Initiatives

Reducing Plastic Used in Frozen Food Containers and Packaging

Since FY2007, Nichirei Foods has been striving to reduce the amount of plastic used for household-use frozen food product containers and packaging. Recently we achieved a reduction of over 200 tons of plastic for seven items in a product series, compared with before these initiatives began. While continuing to reduce plastic use by reviewing product containers and packaging, we will also work toward reducing our CO₂ emissions.

Initiatives for Thinner Packaging
Fiscal year Products Measures
FY2007 Imagawa-Yaki (Japanese waffles) Elimination of trays
FY2010 Yaki-Onigiri (grilled rice balls) 10-pack Elimination of trays
FY2012 Honkaku-Itame-Chahan (fried rice) Thinner packaging 
FY2015 Yaki-Onigiri (grilled rice balls) 10-pack Thinner packaging 
FY2016 Honkaku-Itame-Chahan (fried rice) Thinner packaging (second reduction)
FY2019 Ebi-Pilaf (shrimp pilaf) and Chicken Rice Thinner packaging 
FY2021 Ebi-to-Cheese-no-Gratin (shrimp gratin) and Ebi-to-Cheese-no-Doria (shrimp rice gratin) Thinner trays, reduced tray handle width
FY2022 Yaki-Onigiri (grilled rice balls) Elimination of trays for the lineup

Upcycling Initiatives

Turning Substandard Frozen Foods into Antibacterial Wet Wipes

Nichirei Foods has worked to reduce food loss by making donations to children’s cafeterias and food banks. We also make use of the food residue generated during the production process by recycling it into fertilizer and feed. As a company that deals with food, however, we also want to add “social value” to food residue by upcycling it as part of our efforts to create a more abundant society.
As one of the upcycling initiatives, we have collaborated with Fermenstation Co., Ltd., a company that uses proprietary fermentation technology to upcycle non-standard products and by-products generated during the food and beverage manufacturing processes, as well as agricultural non-standard products. We provide antibacterial wet wipes made by fermenting a portion of substandard products from our long-selling Yaki-Onigiri (grilled rice balls) 10-pack and Imagawa-Yaki (Japanese waffles) to make distilled ethanol.

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