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Winners of the METI Minister's Award under the FY2022 Factory Greening Award Program
- National Award for Greenery Factory -
December 2, 2022
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has been conducting the Factory Greening Award Program (commonly called the "National Award for Greenery Factory" program) with the aim of recognizing factories that have proactively promoted factory greening and have made remarkable improvements to the environments inside and outside their sites. METI hereby announces that it has chosen two winners of the METI Minister's Award under the FY2022 award program.
1. Outline of the Award Program
The award program aims to recognize factories that (i) operate under the mindset of harmony between factories and their surrounding environments as stipulated in the Factory Location Act, (ii) proactively promote factory greening, and (iii) have made remarkable improvements to the environments inside and outside their sites. Through this program, METI aims to further promote factory greening.
Promoting the greening of factories will help to establish favorable relationships between them and their environments, and enhance harmonization with local communities and society more broadly. It will also improve conditions within their sites.
Working from these standpoints, inclusive of the FY2022 program, METI has conducted the award program 41 times since its inauguration in FY1982. Based on the results of on-site surveys and examinations by external experts, it had recognized 179 factories as winners of the METI Minister's Award by FY2021.
In addition to these winners of the METI Minister's Award this fiscal year, METI chose six winners of the Director-General's Award of a regional bureau of economy, trade and industry, while the Japan Greenery Research and Development Center chose 14 winners of its Chairperson's Award and other awards. METI collectively calls these awards the "National Award for Greenery Factory."
Moreover, every fiscal year, one factory has been selected from among these winners and honored with the Prime Minister's Commendations for Contributors to the National Greening Campaign, utilizing the opportunity of the Ceremony of Awarding the MIDORI Prize organized by the Cabinet Office.
2. Two winners of the METI Minister's Award (for details, see the Appendix)
METI Minister's Award:
- TAKANO Co., Ltd., Exterior Factory (Komagane City, Nagano Prefecture)
- Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Tokushima Itano Factory(Itano Town, Itano County, Tokushima Prefecture)
Winners of the Director-General's Award of a Regional Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry: Six factories (see the Appendix for details)
Winners of the Chairperson's Award of the Japan Greenery Research and Development Center: Ten factories (see the Appendix for details)
Winners of the Chairperson's Encouragement Award of the Japan Greenery Research and Development Center: Four factories (see the Appendix for details)
3. Commendation ceremony
The 41st National Assembly of Factory Greening Promotion Initiatives
Date: January 27 (Fri.), 2023 from 14:00
Venue: Sabo Kaikan, 2-7-4 Hirakawa-cho, Chiyoda City, Tokyo Metropolitan
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