At-Home Biodiversity Conservation Activity: Creating Hinoki Magnets

The Hitachi High-Tech Group aims to conduct business in harmony with the global environment. Since 2005, we have been leasing national forest land in Ishioka City, Ibaraki Prefecture, which we manage as the “Hitachi High-Tech Yasato Forest” as part of a 60-year forestry project.

This fiscal year, volunteer members from Hitachi High-Tech Naka Area and Group companies in the region used hinoki (Japanese cypress) branches pruned during forestry activities at Hitachi High-Tech Yasato Forest on Saturday, April 19, to make “hinoki magnets” at home.

In this activity, members of the environmental department in the Naka area took home hinoki branches that had been pruned during forestry work and cut them into cross-sections. After air-drying naturally, the volunteers who participated in the making carefully smoothed the pieces with sandpaper and attached magnets to create “hinoki magnets.” The varying sizes of the branch cross-sections, combined with each participant’s individual ideas, yielded many unique and original magnets.

Before the creation activity, we held an explanatory session on “the importance of biodiversity” and “an overview of Yasato Forest,” helping participants better understand coexistence with nature.

The Hitachi High-Tech Group will continue promoting biodiversity conservation activities as we strive for a sustainable and well-being society.

For information on the Hitachi High-Tech Group's efforts to conserve biodiversity, please visit the following website.