Yamaha Motor to Reduce CO2 Emission by Energy Shift

Yamaha Motor is advancing energy shift at its domestic and overseas plants to reduce carbon dioxide emission. The firm will change fuel for its all aluminium melting furnaces in domestic plants from heavy oil to natural gas by fiscal 2010 ending March 2011. At overseas, the firm will introduce a new electric generator powered by natural gas at the engine manufacturing plant in Indonesia next spring. CO2 emission weight from natural gas is less by about 30% than heavy oil.Yamaha Motor operates total 8 aluminium melting furnaces, those which have been powered mainly by heavy oil, at its domestic plants in Shizuoka Prefecture. The firm has already changed main fuel to natural gas for 5 furnaces so far. As to the rest 3 furnaces, the firm will shift to natural gas by fiscal 2010.CO2 emission is expected to decrease by 4,000 tonnes per annum as a total of the 8 furnaces thanks to the fuel change. This represents 4% in Yamaha Motor’s all CO2 emission at 99,853 tonnes in fiscal 1990.At Indonesian plant, the firm plans to introduce a new large-size electric generator powered mainly by natural gas , not by LPG, next spring when the firm expands aluminium engine output capacity.