Creation of hydrogen, biomass and environmental solutions businesses through the FT Project
First written in FY2021. 3 of 4 entries say "Advanced", first in FY2022. Latest entry: FY2025.
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- FY2025AdvancedAnnual report
「Going forward, the Group will use newly introduced pilot equipment to establish mass-production technologies and accelerate commercialization efforts, including scale-up prototyping and demonstration testing, through broad collaboration with partner companies, including developers of biogas and natural-gas production.」
For environmentally focused themes under the FT Project and other initiatives, the Group has established the basic technologies for continuous film formation and membrane-element manufacturing for all-carbon CO2 separation membranes and is moving toward the mass-production technology and demonstration stages using pilot equipment. - FY2024AdvancedAnnual report
「Yamanashi Prefecture and 10 participating technology-development companies have begun construction in Yamanashi Prefecture of an integrated system comprising the equipment for a large-scale P2G system, with the aim of decarbonizing Suntory Tennensui Minami-Alps Hakushu Plant and Suntory Hakushu Distillery (Hokuto City, Yamanashi Prefecture). The project targets operation in 2025 and will advance decarbonization through Japan’s largest proton exchange membrane (PEM) water electrolyzer, promoting a hydrogen-energy society based on the use of locally generated renewable energy.」
Hydrogen and fuel-cell initiatives have progressed to the concrete execution stage, with construction beginning on a large-scale P2G system in Yamanashi Prefecture and a target for operation in 2025. - FY2022AdvancedAnnual report
「As basic research and core technology development outside the above segments, the Group has created an innovative CO2 separation membrane with an all-carbon, two-layer structure, consisting of a hollow-fiber porous carbon-fiber support and a thin carbon separation-function layer on its surface. The Group has also signed a basic agreement with Siemens Energy AG concerning the establishment of a strategic partnership.」
The environmentally focused themes under the FT Project and other initiatives have progressed to the creation of an innovative CO2 separation membrane and a strategic partnership with Siemens Energy AG concerning green hydrogen production technology. - FY2021First statedAnnual report
「Under the FT Project (Future TORAY－2020s Project), which aims to create and expand new businesses, the Group is focusing resources on major themes that will drive the next stage of growth. In addition to themes such as hydrogen and fuel-cell-related materials, biomass-utilization products and process technologies, and environmentally focused printing solutions, the Group will develop applications for porous carbon fibers that can be used as support layers for gas-separation membranes separating CO2, biogas and hydrogen, among other gases.」
Through the Future TORAY－2020s Project, hydrogen and fuel cells, biomass, environmentally focused printing and gas-separation membranes were systematically identified for the first time as major themes driving the next stage of growth.