Yokohama Tire Manufacturing (Thailand) is located in the Amata City Industrial Estate in Rayong province, some 120 kilometers southeast of the capital Bangkok. Our site is larger than any other plant in the Yokohama Rubber Group and features a small-scale integrated production plant. Production of TBS (truck and bus) tires and PC/LT (passenger car and light truck) tires has been steadily increasing in line with market demand. We adopted a new mixing process that is an important factor in tire quality, whereby we efficiently produce high-quality compounds. We are also boosting production of environmental tire models with the eventual aim of becoming the largest overseas tire production facility in the Yokohama Rubber Group.

Our employees have become increasingly conscious of environmental activities since the Company acquired ISO14001 certification in July 2007. In December 2009 we achieved the Zero Emissions target of less than 1% of waste output sent to landfill. Our aim in FY2010 is to reduce this to zero, and to this end we are ramping up our waste sorting and recycling programs.