Yamaha Celebrates World Environment Day
GREATER NOIDA LOKESH GOSWAMI
5000 Tulsi saplings distributed; Pollution Check-up camps at 32 dealerships across India Greater Noida/ Faridabad/ Chennai, June 6, 2016: In an effort to raise awareness amongst its employees on environment conservation, Yamaha Motor India Group Companies today celebrated the World Environment Day at all its offices and plants across India. Several activities will be organized between June 6th-11th to support the cause and promote the importance of preserving our biodiversity. This year, United Nations has outlined the theme –‘Fight against the Illegal Trade in Wildlife’ with supporting slogan “Go Wild for Life”On the occasion, the senior management along with all the employees took the pledge to protect the environment and adopt environment-friendly processes to make this planet a better place for the community and future generation. Tree plantation activity, Display of Banners and Distribution of leaflets were also carried out at all the three India Yamaha plants located at Surajpur, Faridabad and Chennai to create awareness among the employees. Over 5,000 ‘Tulsi’ saplings were also distributed to the employees across offices while the employees also participated in the poster-making and quiz competitions organized on the occasion.In addition to this, Free Pollution Check-up camps were conducted at India Yamaha Motor’s 32 dealerships on June 4th across various cities including Delhi/NCR, Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Kolkata etc. Tulsi saplings were also distributed to customers who visited the dealerships on the day.As a responsible corporate, Yamaha has always laid emphasis on care for the Environment. The company’s belief, ‘Yamaha, In Harmony with Nature’ itself denotes commitment of the organization towards environment. In the broader context of Sustainable Development, the company has adopted the concept of ‘3R’ (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) through ‘3E’ (Easy to Make, Easy to Repair, Easy to Disassemble) in all phases of product lifecycles. The same are also evident at its work places through sustainable resource consumption and production practices. About India Yamaha Motor Pvt. Ltd.Yamaha Motor made its initial foray into India in 1985 as a joint-venture. In August 2001, it became a 100% subsidiary of Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd, Japan (YMC). In 2008, Mitsui & Co., Ltd. entered into an agreement with YMC to become a joint-investor in India Yamaha Motor Private Limited (IYM). IYM’s manufacturing facilities comprise of 3 State-of-the-art plants at Faridabad (Haryana), Surajpur (Uttar Pradesh) and Chennai (Tamil Nadu). The infrastructure at both the plants supports production of motorcycles and parts for the domestic as well as overseas markets.IYM is highly customer-driven and has a countrywide network of over 2,200 customer touch-points including 500 dealers.Presently, its product portfolio includes: Sports models such as YZF-R3 (321 cc), YZF-R15 Ver 2.0 (149 cc), YZF-R15S (149 cc); Blue-Core Technology enabled models such as FZ-S FI (Fuel-Injected, 149 cc), FZ FI (Fuel-Injected, 149 cc), Fazer FI (Fuel-Injected, 149 cc), SZ-RR Ver 2.0 (149 cc), Saluto (125 cc), the new Saluto RX (110 cc), the new Cygnus Ray-ZR (113 cc), Fascino (113 cc), Cygnus Alpha (113 cc), Cygnus Ray Z (113 cc); other models such as FZ (153 cc); as well as imported models comprising of VMAX (1,679 cc), YZF-R1M (998 cc), YZF-R1 (998 cc) and FZ1 (998 cc) and the latest superbike MT-09 (847 cc).