Developing forestry management and forestry operations into a future core business
First written in FY2021-Q2. 12 of 18 entries say "Advanced", first in FY2021-Q3. Latest entry: FY2026.
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- FY2026AdvancedAnnual report
「Raw-material production volume, including materials supplied to the group’s power plants, increased 29.6% from the previous fiscal year, and net sales increased substantially. However, earnings did not reach the targeted level because of higher personnel expenses, other costs associated with increased staffing, equipment maintenance expenses and depreciation.」
Regarding forestry management and the forestry business, the company states that it increased production volume by 29.6% and expanded its operating areas, equipment and workforce, but revenue has not reached the target level due to higher costs. - FY2026-H1AdvancedAnnual report
「In the forestry business, sales increased to approximately 1.8 times the level of the same period of the previous year as we expanded external sales of logs. However, the business remained loss-making owing to increased staffing and transportation equipment, as well as external outsourcing costs to secure the volume of logging operations.」
Regarding the development of forestry management and the forestry business, the company states that expanded external sales of logs resulted in revenue approximately 1.8 times higher year on year. Meanwhile, the business as a whole remains loss-making due to increased staffing and equipment investment, among other factors, and has not reached the stage of contributing to profit. - FY2025AdvancedAnnual report
「We have secured approximately 4,800 hectares of operating areas nationwide, including areas near our Group's power plants, equivalent to approximately 1,000 Tokyo Domes. A total of 85 people in the business division are engaged in operations including forestry work, timber transport, reforestation, planning, estimation of timber volume and CO2 absorption, and administrative work.」
Regarding the future development of forestry management, the company describes its business scale and operating structure, having secured approximately 4,800 hectares of operating areas nationwide and assigned 85 people to forestry operations, timber transport, reforestation, CO2 absorption estimates and other functions. - FY2024-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「In our Group's forestry business, we are promoting active logging and forestry operations and contributing to the supply of unused timber to Group power plants, while also focusing on external sales and working to improve profitability. However, the business has not yet reached the stage at which it supports the Group as a whole and contributes to profit.」
The company continues efforts to develop the forestry business as a foundation for supplying fuel to power plants and for external sales, but it has not yet reached the stage at which it supports overall profit. - FY2024-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「Our group's forestry business is promoting active logging operations to offset these changes in procurement conditions and, although it plays a certain role in supplying unused timber to group power plants,」
The company continues active logging and forestry operations through the forestry business and the supply of unused timber to power plants, but no further progress toward making it a core business in the future has been indicated. - FY2024-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「Our group's forestry business is promoting active logging operations to offset these changes in procurement conditions and, although it plays a certain role in supplying unused timber to group power plants,」
The company continues active logging and forestry operations through the forestry business and the supply of unused timber to power plants. No further progress toward making it a core business in the future has been indicated. - FY2023-Q2AdvancedAnnual report
「In the group's forestry business, we have proactively promoted logging operations, contributing to the supply of unused wood to group power plants, while also focusing on external sales to improve earnings.」
Regarding the future development of the forestry business, the company describes initiatives to improve profitability by focusing on external sales in addition to supplies to power plants. - FY2023-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「Our group's forestry business is promoting active logging operations to offset these changes in procurement conditions and, although it plays a certain role in supplying unused timber to group power plants,」
The company states that it continues to promote logging and forestry operations through the forestry business and supply unused timber to power plants. - FY2022AdvancedAnnual report
「We will also actively utilize forest resources by making use of forests and logging rights that we have procured ourselves, focusing on acquiring logging and forestry operation expertise and expanding the volume handled.」
The company states that it is advancing measures to develop forestry management into a future core business by utilizing forests and logging rights procured independently, acquiring logging and forestry operation expertise, and expanding the volume handled. - FY2022-Q2ReframedAnnual report
「Rather than viewing the forestry business as an independent revenue-generating business, our Group will develop it as a platform for protecting forests and bringing Japan's abundant forest resources into the economic market, thereby establishing a sustainable, circular business foundation.」
The description has shifted from the previous positioning of forestry management as an independent revenue-generating business to be developed into a future core business, to positioning it as a platform linking forest resources with the economic market and as a circular business foundation. - FY2022-Q1AdvancedAnnual report
「The segment as a whole was broadly at the same level as in the same period of the previous year, as the expansion of operating areas in the forestry business enabled the company to secure a certain level of external revenue.」
The company states that it expanded operating areas in the forestry business and secured a certain level of external revenue. - FY2021AdvancedAnnual report
「Forestry management requires the business to continue and remain sustainable over a considerably long period. It is considered to have a highly advantageous relationship with the Company Group's businesses because, in addition to selling timber, thinned wood and low-grade wood can be used as fuel. Accordingly, the Company Group has begun forestry management and will efficiently secure profitability in the forestry business, primarily through mechanization.」
The policy for developing forestry management into a core business in the future explicitly addresses launching the forestry management business, combining timber sales with fuel utilization, and securing profitability through mechanization. - FY2021-Q3AdvancedAnnual report
「For future fuel supplies for the Shingu Power Plant, we are securing logs, primarily sourced from Wakayama Prefecture, and are progressively working to expand our supplier base. We are also actively pursuing the acquisition of forestland required to advance collaboration with our forestry business.」
It states that the company is securing logs, expanding new suppliers, and acquiring forestland required for collaboration, with a view to making forestry management and operations a core business in the future. - FY2021-Q2First statedAnnual report
「We are focusing on securing and training personnel and acquiring logging equipment and operating areas in order to accumulate expertise in forest management and develop it into a core business in the future.」
The Company first clearly states its policy of developing forest management and forestry operations beyond a fuel-supply function into a future core business.