Strengthening Production Capabilities and Quality Control and Reducing Internal Costs
First written in FY2016. 16 of 25 entries say "Advanced", first in FY2017-Q1. Latest entry: FY2026.
The whole theme swung hardest in 2026: 6 of 24 companies on the "Worse" side.
10 other companies' latest entry also says "Advanced".
- FY2026AdvancedAnnual report
「In March 2025, the Group also established a new hands-on Safety Training Center and installed 11 types of equipment and facilities to provide hazard-awareness training, thereby strengthening its occupational health and safety framework.」
The Group established a new Safety Training Center and began hands-on training using 11 types of equipment and facilities. Efforts to put quality and safety management and workplace improvements into practice are progressing. - FY2026-H1RestatedAnnual report
「In production, the Group installed new air-conditioning equipment at its principal plants to address extreme heat and worked to improve employees' workplace environment and ensure their safety.」
As in the previous period, the company describes measures to address extreme heat through the installation of air-conditioning equipment at its principal plants, improve the workplace environment, and ensure safety. - FY2025AdvancedAnnual report
「At headquarters, the Group established the Safety Promotion and Quality Assurance Division and the Safety Promotion Department, and opened a Safety Training Center offering hands-on training, thereby strengthening its occupational health and safety framework.」
The Group established the Safety Promotion and Quality Assurance Division and the Safety Promotion Department and opened a Safety Training Center, putting its quality and safety management framework into practice. - FY2025-H1AdvancedAnnual report
「In production, the Group installed new air-conditioning equipment at its principal plants to address extreme heat and worked to improve employees' workplace environment and ensure their safety.」
The Group installed air-conditioning equipment at its principal plants to address extreme heat, putting measures to improve the workplace environment and safety into practice. - FY2024AdvancedAnnual report
「At other plants as well, the Group worked to manufacture premium-quality products, strengthen value-added proposals, improve productivity and the working environment, and utilize and develop human resources, including through diversity initiatives.」
The company specifically describes continuous initiatives in plant operations to improve quality, value added, and productivity, as well as the working environment and the utilization of human resources, including through diversity initiatives. - FY2023RestatedAnnual report
「At the same time, the Group worked to manufacture premium-quality products, improve productivity and value added, advance DX, improve the working environment, and utilize and develop human resources, including through diversity initiatives.」
The Group continues to pursue an integrated policy covering quality, productivity, value added, DX, the working environment, and the utilization and development of human resources. - FY2022RestatedAnnual report
「The Group is working to improve productivity, manufacture premium-quality products, and advance DX (digital transformation).」
The Group continues to improve operations and production through productivity and quality improvements and DX. - FY2022-Q1AdvancedAnnual report
「In the domestic corrugated packaging market, the Group’s production and sales volumes exceeded the level in the same period of the previous year as sales volumes of food products and beverages increased amid a higher proportion of demand for groceries associated with stay-at-home consumption. Corrugated packaging revenue was ¥25,176 million, up 5.8% year on year, while operating profit was ¥1,474 million, up 18.8%, helped by efforts to improve productivity.」
The company states that initiatives to improve productivity contributed to an 18.8% year-on-year increase in corrugated packaging operating profit. - FY2021AdvancedAnnual report
「The Group focused on improving labor productivity, manufacturing premium-quality products, and digital transformation, and continued to pursue work-style reforms.」
The Group advanced initiatives integrating labor productivity, quality, and digital transformation, and corrugated packaging operating profit rose 3.5% year on year. - FY2021-Q3AdvancedAnnual report
「Corrugated packaging revenue was ¥73,176 million, down 4.4% year on year, but operating profit was ¥4,454 million, up 0.6%, as the Group worked to reduce costs, including through lower fuel and electricity costs.」
Cost reductions, including lower fuel and electricity costs, contributed to a 0.6% year-on-year increase in operating profit in the corrugated packaging business. - FY2021-Q2AdvancedAnnual report
「Corrugated packaging revenue was ¥47,989 million, down 5.0% year on year, due mainly to lower sales volume and other factors. Operating profit was ¥2,875 million, up 2.6%, owing to lower operating expenses, primarily as a result of higher productivity from work-style reforms, digitalization, and other initiatives.」
Despite lower sales volume, higher productivity from work-style reforms and digitalization and lower operating expenses resulted in a 2.6% year-on-year increase in operating profit. - FY2021-Q1AdvancedAnnual report
「Corrugated packaging revenue was ¥23,801 million, down 4.1% year on year, due mainly to lower sales volume and other factors. Operating profit was ¥1,241 million, up 13.9%, reflecting lower raw material costs associated with the volume decline and higher productivity resulting from work-style reforms, digitalization, and other initiatives.」
Despite lower sales volume, corrugated packaging operating profit rose 13.9% year on year, supported by higher productivity from work-style reforms and digitalization and lower raw material costs. - FY2020RestatedAnnual report
「The Group is actively working to strengthen production capacity and manufacture premium-quality products, while vigorously promoting work-style reforms aimed at reducing overtime, enabling employees to take consecutive days of annual paid leave, and improving operational efficiency through the use of network tools.」
The Group continues to strengthen production capacity and quality and pursue work-style reforms relating to working hours, leave, and network tools. - FY2020-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「The Group is actively working to strengthen production capacity and manufacture premium-quality products, while also vigorously promoting work-style reforms, including reducing overtime, enabling employees to take consecutive days of annual paid leave, advancing diversity, and improving operational efficiency through the use of network tools.」
The Group continues to strengthen production capacity and quality, while promoting reductions in overtime, leave-taking, diversity, and operational efficiency through the use of network tools. - FY2019RestatedAnnual report
「The Group continues to pursue further internal cost reductions while actively strengthening production capacity and creating top-quality products. Under “TM Only One,” it also proactively develops the underlying new technologies, improves the working environment, and trains personnel.」
The Company continues to describe internal cost reductions, stronger production capacity and quality, new technologies, improvements to the working environment, and personnel development as an integrated set of initiatives. - FY2019-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「The Group is strongly advancing “work-style reform,” including continued efforts to strengthen production capacity and create top-quality products, further reduce internal costs, reduce overtime, promote consecutive use of annual paid leave, advance diversity, and improve operational efficiency through the use of network tools leveraging IoT.」
The Company continues to strengthen production capacity and quality and reduce internal costs, explicitly identifying work-style reform and IoT-enabled operational efficiency as related initiatives. - FY2018-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「Corrugated packaging revenue was ¥64,683 million, up 1.2% year on year, partly due to the newly consolidated トーモクベトナム社. Despite broad-based cost reductions, operating profit was limited to ¥4,487 million, down 8.2%, due to higher raw material prices.」
Although broad-based cost reductions continued, higher raw material prices caused operating profit to decline 8.2% year on year. - FY2018-Q1AdvancedAnnual report
「Corrugated packaging revenue was ¥21,154 million, down 1.4% year on year due to soft prices, while operating profit was ¥1,721 million, up 17.9%, partly due to the benefits of cost reductions.」
Although soft prices reduced revenue, cost reductions lifted operating profit in the corrugated packaging business by 17.9% year on year. - FY2017AdvancedAnnual report
「To respond accurately to the sophisticated and diverse needs of customers and society, the Company has actively promoted stronger production capacity and the creation of top-quality products, pursued further internal cost reductions, and proactively worked on developing the underlying new technologies, improving the working environment, training personnel, and energizing the organization. The overseas business was generally steady. In corrugated packaging, revenue was ¥83,032 million, down 2.0% from the previous fiscal year, partly due to soft selling prices. Operating profit was ¥6,139 million, up 48.8%, despite higher depreciation and amortization expenses associated with the start-up of a new plant, as the Company worked to reduce internal costs including raw material and fuel costs.」
In addition to stronger production capacity, quality, and personnel development, reductions in internal costs such as raw material and fuel costs resulted in operating profit of ¥6,139 million, up 48.8% year on year. The Company also describes total cost reductions in housing through improved procurement, transportation costs, and material yield. - FY2017-Q3AdvancedAnnual report
「Operating profit was ¥4,886 million, up 45.8% year on year, partly due to the benefits of reducing raw material and fuel costs.」
The benefits of reducing raw material and fuel costs were reflected in a 45.8% year-on-year increase in operating profit. - FY2017-Q2AdvancedAnnual report
「The Group actively promotes stronger production capacity and the creation of top-quality products, pursues further internal cost reductions, and proactively develops the underlying new technologies, improves the working environment, and trains personnel. Revenue was ¥42,433 million, down 3.4% year on year, but broad-based cost reductions lifted operating profit to ¥3,152 million, up 50.6%.」
Broad-based cost reductions lifted operating profit in the corrugated packaging business by 50.6% year on year. - FY2017-Q1AdvancedAnnual report
「Operating profit was ¥1,459 million, up 55.6% year on year, partly due to the benefits of cost reductions.」
The benefits of cost reductions were reflected in a quantified improvement in operating profit in the corrugated packaging business during the quarter. - FY2016First statedAnnual report
「In response to customers’ sophisticated and diverse needs, we are working to strengthen production capacity and establish and reinforce our quality management structure, actively pursuing the creation of quality at the highest level. At the same time, we are working persistently to achieve further internal cost reductions while maintaining product prices at levels that enable continued production.」
The Company identifies the simultaneous pursuit of quality, cost control, and pricing as a challenge for the corrugated packaging business.