Sunward Ltd., headquartered President Tomoyuki Ikeda said that as the growing inter-est in the SDGs has increasingly brought attention to these goods, “More and more news outlets are covering our prod-ucts.” He added that his company’s involvement in work-ing with people with disabilities, which started in 2013, has been drawing media attention, too. It has also developed ECOPET TWILL LINE, a recycled fiber made from used PET bottles, in collaboration with Teijin, a major Japanese chem-ical manufacturer.In its second project, Sunward partnered with public transport company Osaka Metro to use the parts of retired subway cars to produce backpacks. In general, the service-able life of subway cars is 30 to 40 years. In 2021, the sub-way operator kicked off a project to upcycle the parts of retired cars into various goods. Sunward participated in the project to produce bags using a hanging ring and gangway Tomoyuki Ikeda, PresidentKobe City Transportation Bureau just retired No.12 of the 1000-series train cars. It started the operation for Seishin-Yamate Line in 1977. The following year, Japan Railfan Club awarded The Laurel Award to the 1000-se-ries cars for its advanced features at that time, such as air-conditioners. 41in Osaka City, Japan, designs, produces and sells bags and pouches. It is also actively involved in upcycling waste materials into its own brand name products. In August 2022, in collaboration with the Kobe City Transportation Bureau, it released a line of back-packs for children and adults made from the parts of retired subway cars. Their developed products that are not only earth-conscious but also functional and excellent in design will become a must-have item for railfans. Sunward Ltd.Upcycling substandard fire hoses90% of Sunward’s overall business activities consist of producing other com-panies’ brand products as OEM, while the remaining 10% is for the in-house products which focus on SDGs or Sustainable De-velopment Goals. Sunward has been committed to up-cycling since 2011, when it introduced bags made from out-of-spec fire hoses that were otherwise disposed of. The following year, the compa-ny built its own factory in Shiga Prefecture, east of Kyoto, to manufacture its own SDGs-focused products. Joining upcycling project of retired trainsSunward’s first SDGs project involved fire hoses. Due to strict manufacturing standards, fire hoses with the slightest error or blemish are deemed out of specification. As a re-sult, many hoses have been disposed of as industrial waste. Sunward made the most of the durability and water resis-tance of materials used for hoses to upcycle the to-be-wast-ed hoses into practical and vivid bags in red, blue, yellow, and other colors. Upcycling retired train Upcycling retired train parts into backpacksparts into backpacks
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