“We are to protect and grow the forest and pass it on to the future.”
With that in mind, SATO COMPANY is developing its business by making most out of the domestic timber.

About 50 years ago. Our ancestors planted saplings such as sugi and cypress for the posterity. It is these trees that we are now harvesting. It has matured to be used as “wood” today.

The tree has been absorbing carbon dioxide (CO2) during its growth until it has cut offed to be used as wood. The new young seedings are planted there and the young tree starts to absorb CO2 and so as the natural cycle of improving the environment keeps on its circulation. That is the way of their contribution to the global environment and the sustainable world.

Today, there needs to be an artificial support to sustain this natural cycle. It does not circulate on its own. In Japan, situation is getting critical since many forests cannot be maintained properly since the activity of domestic forestry workers are getting less due to the excessive inflow of timber from foreign countries hitting their business.

Global warming is a great issue today which is said that the reduction of CO2 emission from the industrial activities and our daily life will help to reduce the impact. On the other hand, the absorption of CO2 will be greatly helping the global environment. SATO COMPANY believes that our activity of utilizing Japanese timber will contribute to let the circulation roll on.

SATO COMPANY’s SDGs activities are to make many people aware of these issues of forest revitalization in Japan to actively utilize Japanese timber that has reached the harvest season.

Our voice and power might be small. However, we think that there are many things we can do, such as proposing various ways to utilize wood by not limiting ourselves to the pallet for transportation. It is our will to pursue the way.