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At the DX Acceleration Summit M360 APAC 2023, Korea, our CEO, Mr. Shimizu, was honored with the ESG/Sustainability Award.

At the DX Acceleration Summit M360 APAC 2023 in Seoul, Korea, our CEO, Mr. Shimizu, delivered a presentation and was honored with the ESG/Sustainability at the Innovative Tech Showcase Award. ▶ Previous Awards News Articles

Elephantech Inc. was selected as one of the winners of Logitech’s Future Positive Challenge

Elephantech Inc. (Head Office: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; CEO & CTO: Shinya Shimizu, hereinafter “Elephantech”) was selected as one of the winners of Logitech’s Future Positive Challenge, a technology challenge for sustainability-led disruptors poised to make a meaningful contribution to a positive future.

Toward a Sustainable Society – Elephantech’s Environmental Information Disclosure Initiatives

With the increasing momentum to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, there is a growing trend towards greater environmental consciousness. Amid such global trends, Elephantech believes it is a corporate responsibility to communicate on efforts made in reducing environmental impact and has worked on the visualization of its sustainability efforts from the three angles of “climate change,” “natural resources,” and “hazardous substances.” On a mission to “Making the world sustainable with new manufactu […]

Elephantech Wins Best Business Practices Award at the EcoBalance International Conference

Tokyo, Japan - Elephantech Inc. ("Elephantech") won the EcoBalance Award for the Best Business Practices at the 15th Biennial International Conference on EcoBalance held at Fukuoka Convention Center from October 30 to November 2.

The future of electronics：Shifting from "dissolving unnecessary parts" to "printing onto necessary parts"

About Elephantech’s manufacturing method （Pure Additive™️ production） Taking the example of printed circuit boards, the conventional manufacturing method was an extremely long process in which copper foil is manufactured, laminated with film (production of CCL), and laminated with photosensitive materials before the desired copper pattern is achieved by dissolving and discarding the copper foil from unnecessary parts by exposure, development and etching. Our process achieves the desired co […]

NHK WORLD-JAPAN News Broadcast（Summary）

・Many tech companies have a bad reputation for sustainability due to the short lifespans of their products and a lack of recycling. ・But there’s a lesser-known contributor to environmental waste in the industry — the printed circuit board that’s at the core of our electronics gadgets. Making it produces a vast amount of toxic material that needs to be processed. ・We visit a Tokyo startup that’s helping to tackle the problem. It has developed a more eco-friendly way to man […]