Consumer- and Environment-Friendly Business Activities

Reduction of Waste through Our Long-Cherished Manufacturing Capabilities and Unique Production, Inventory, and Sales System

The Group’s value of creating products loved by customers is underpinned by its dedication to superior standards of quality and safety and optimizing inventories. Our ISO 9001-based quality control system ensures the highest levels of quality at each phase, from materials procurement through to product planning, product design, and production, by adhering to strict standards. Moreover, based on our framework of generating profits and minimizing waste throughout each stage of production, inventory management, and sales, the disposal rate of Wacoal Corp. is currently around 1%.

Development of Environment-Friendly Products along Our Path to Realizing a Sustainable Global Environment

At Wacoal, we are constantly developing and expanding our line of environment-friendly products and materials in order to address the needs of consumers for more products that respect the environment and to contribute to the realization of a sustainable global environment. As a part of the Wacoal brand, in September 2021 we rolled out our line of Nature Couture products, consisting of innerwear that is friendly to both users and the environment and utilizes washi, Japanese paper made primarily of cellulose fiber taken from Manila hemp, and U.S.-grown organic cotton. The material uses dye derived from olive leaves, rose petals, and other plants, as well as non-dyed colors and, by devising various designs and patterns, we were able to reduce the amount of material waste more than usual. Going forward, we will look to establish a material waste recycling system, which entails collecting the material waste generated during the fabric-cutting process at our plants in Japan and reusing it to create yarn for materials to be used in the next season and onward. In addition, our L∞Ping environmentfriendly bras made of recycled yarn, which are slated to be released mainly at directly managed stores in spring/summer 2022, could also become a part of our material waste recycling system in the future.

Energy saving efforts in distribution

Wacoal Distribution Corp. has introduced a solar power generation system to promote corporate environmental activities and reduce power consumption. A solar energy power generation system will serve as the Shiga maximum scale as a production of electricity for enterprises.
・Roof of Wacoal Distribution's West Distribution Center(1-1 Chishiro-cho, Moriyama-shi, Shiga Prefecture, Japan)
・The rooftop installation promises to heighten the efficiency of the insulation and air-conditioning of the operating base's fifth floor.
In the fashion field, the modal shift has already been conducted ahead of other competitors in the same industry.

Acquisitions of the ISO 14001 Environmental Management System Standard and the Kyoto Environmental Management System Standard (KES) Certifications

Brassiere Recycling Activities

Based on customer feedback that “bras are hard to throw away, Wacoal Corp.’s “Wacoal Bra Recycle” initiative is designed to collect and recycle unneeded bras. Through participation in JEPLAN, INC.’s BRING program, the collected bras are reborned into recycled plastic.

* Numerical value converted at 1 unit = 100g, based on the total recovered weight