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NYK Trading Corporation Starting a plant factory business in Tsuruga City, Fukui Prefecture

October 03, 2014

NYK Trading Co., Ltd. (Head Office: Minato-ku, Tokyo) has begun construction of a fully-controlled artificial light plant factory to produce 10,000 heads of lettuce a day in Tsuruga City, Fukui Prefecture. We are scheduled to plant seeding in April of next year.

This fully-controlled artificial light plant factory is an agricultural venture in partnership with Mirai Co., Ltd. (Head Office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo), and it will incorporate the company's production technology that is the largest scale in Japan.

Vegetables produced in the plant factory have many advantages, such as being pesticide-free, being high in nutritional value, and being able to supply a stable quality throughout the year, which allows them to sustain long-term storage in the refrigerator so disposal loss is small.

In addition to Mirai's sale destination, NYK Trading Corporation plans to proactively develop a market for ships, selling to cruise companies and ferry companies.

【Factory Overview】
・Construction site: Tsuruga City, Fukui Prefecture
・Site area: 3,526 m2
・Factory building floor area: 1,396 m2
・Investment: 750 million yen

NYK Trading Corporation has been working on environmental and energy-saving businesses for many years, and "contributing to a sustainable society and global environment" will still to be the basis of the NYK Group environmental management vision as we continue to actively promote new green businesses.

【Please contact for further inquiries on this matter】
NYK Trading Corporation New Business Division
World Trade Center Building 34th floor 2-4-1 Hamamatsu-cho, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Tel: +81-3-5408-7119 Fax: +81-3-5408-7163

(Factory Internal Conceptional Drawing)

(NYK Trading Corporation Fukui Prefecture Tsuruga Factory Conceptional Drawing)

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