Yokohama Industries Americas Inc. (YIA)
Production and sale of hose assemblies for auto air-conditioners, power steering units and transmission oil coolers.
Total site areaYIA Inc. (DIV.1, DIV.2) 15,100m2
YIA South Carolina LLC. (DIV.3) 11,200m2
YIA Ohio Inc. (DIV.5) 12,820m2
YIA Mexico (DIV.6) 9,300m2
- YIA Inc. (DIV. 2) was removed from management in November 2021.
1,234 (as of February 2022)
LocationVersailles Plant 105 Industry Drive, Versailles, KY 40383, U.S.A.
Contact for consultation and complaintsTel: +1-859-879-3741 Fax: +1-859-873-8943
E-mail: Ashley.Kelly@YokohamaIA.com
Message from Vice President of Operations
Chris Estock
Yokohama Industries Americas is committed to continuously improve in all aspects of our company to benefit our customers, employees and our communities. YIA engages all employees in the unified effort of creating value while providing a safe workplace that minimizes our impact to our environment. YIA’s management is committed to spending the time and resources to find the right solutions to effectively meet the needs of all our stakeholders without compromising our responsibilities.
Our “EARTH” slogan spells out how we approach our duty to our environment.
“Excellences Achieved and Realized Through Heightened Awareness”
Human Rights
Measures for respecting human rights
YIA respects the rights of all people and rejects all actions that could potentially discriminate against any person directly or indirectly. YIA complies with all state and federal laws protecting human rights. YIA follows all the rules and regulations established by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Minority Business Economic Development
YIA actively pursues business opportunities that foster the growth of minority businesses. YIA continuously searches for minority businesses that can provide goods and services that meet our needs. Over the years as our company has grown so have our purchases of products from minority owned business.
Labor Practices
Occupational safety and health
YIA’s top priority is the safety of our employees. Central to our efforts is to identify safety risks and correct them before accidents happen. YIA’s safety efforts shows in its below industry average incident rates. YIA is committed to improving our safety programs to continuously drive risks and injuries out of our operations.
Major Activities
- We continued to modify our Covid 19 policy to be in alignment to the CDC guidelines.
- We promoted and incentivized our employees to get their Covid 19 vaccinations.
- We implemented weekly surveys that required each employee to complete Covid screening questions.
- We installed thermo scanners at each plants’ entry doors to screen anyone entering the premises for elevated body temperatures.
- We developed a “5SENS” group auditing process that focuses on “5S” “ENvironmental” and “Safety”
- We focused on safety training with all the new employees as we ramped back up our operations.
Disaster Preparedness
YIA has a structured organization to handle disasters if they may happen. YIA has volunteers who are trained to be the initial responders to address injured personnel or dangerous situations. These teams are trained to help handle employees until government personnel arrive. Currently our ERT, emergency response teams, are being trained to help screen employees as the show up to work for COVID 19. They will be asking questions and taking temperatures to help understand if there are employees that might present a health risk to other employees.
Education and training for employees
Education and training are vitally important to YIA to develop our employees and ensure that our operations run effectively. YIA encourages our employees to continuously learn so they are prepared for new challenges as our company expands. 2021 continued to be a challenging year for training due to social distancing requirements. We utilized Microsoft Teams to do more virtual training and recorded meetings and presentations with Microsoft Stream for employees to review and learn at their own pace. These practices that we started during the pandemic will be continued well after the pandemic is behind us.
The Environment
Environmental management
All Tier 1 YIA manufacturing facilities are ISO 14001 certified. All YIA US operations are starting their 5th year of being “Zero Landfill”. The last facility in Mexico is working with the Mexico laws to become landfill free by June of 2022. All facilities are focused on reducing and recycle all waste streams to further lessen our impact on the environment.
YIA DIV.1 (Under the Hose Business Department) Environmental Data
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| Category | FY2017 | FY2018 | FY2019 | FY2020 | FY2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Waste disposed (t) | 196 | 194 | 229 | 160 | 108 | |
| Proportion sent to landfill (%) | 9.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| Landfill waste (t) | 18.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| Energy use (oil equivalent: kl) |
Electric power | 2,004 | 2,150 | 2,288 | 1,987 | 2,203 |
| Fuel | 102 | 79 | 122 | 42 | 17 | |
| Total | 2,106 | 2,229 | 2,409 | 2,029 | 2,220 | |
| Greenhouse gas emissions (1,000t-CO2) | 5.2 | 5.5 | 6.0 | 5.0 | 7.4 | |
| Water usage (1,000m3) | 17.7 | 25.3 | 30.1 | 24.5 | 26.4 | |
- FY: January to December
- Greenhouse gas emissions were calculated based on the Calculation and Reporting Manual for Greenhouse Gas Emissions jointly published by the Ministry of the Environment and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan. Since 2016, they were calculated based on the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Initiative.
YIA DIV.2 (Under the Adhesives and Sealants Business Department) Environmental Data
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| Category | FY2017 | FY2018 | FY2019 | FY2020 | FY2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Waste disposed (t) | 164 | 127 | 130 | 92 | 102 | |
| Proportion sent to landfill (%) | 51.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| Landfill waste (t) | 85.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| Energy use (oil equivalent: kl) |
Electric power | 1,012 | 1,042 | 1,043 | 998 | 589 |
| Fuel | 374 | 320 | 273 | 298 | 257 | |
| Total | 1,386 | 1,362 | 1,316 | 1,296 | 846 | |
| Greenhouse gas emissions (1,000t-CO2) | 3.2 | 3.2 | 3.1 | 3.1 | 2.4 | |
| Water usage (1,000m3) | 10.0 | 10.2 | 7.3 | 7.4 | 8.0 | |
- FY: January to December
- Greenhouse gas emissions were calculated based on the Calculation and Reporting Manual for Greenhouse Gas Emissions jointly published by the Ministry of the Environment and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan. Since 2016, they were calculated based on the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Initiative.
YIA DIV.3 (Under the Hose Business Department) Environmental Data
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| Category | FY2017 | FY2018 | FY2019 | FY2020 | FY2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Waste disposed (t) | 423 | 361 | 454 | 321 | 334 | |
| Proportion sent to landfill (%) | 4.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| Landfill waste (t) | 17.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| Energy use (oil equivalent: kl) |
Electric power | 1,134 | 1,093 | 1,079 | 961 | 959 |
| Fuel | 165 | 104 | 141 | 107 | 79 | |
| Total | 1,299 | 1,197 | 1,220 | 1,068 | 1,038 | |
| Greenhouse gas emissions (1,000t-CO2) | 2.5 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.1 | 1.8 | |
| Water usage (1,000m3) | 3.2 | 4.4 | 5.8 | 3.8 | 3.6 | |
- FY: January to December
- Greenhouse gas emissions were calculated based on the Calculation and Reporting Manual for Greenhouse Gas Emissions jointly published by the Ministry of the Environment and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan. Since 2016, they were calculated based on the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Initiative.
YIA DIV.5 (Under the Hose Business Department) Environmental Data
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| Category | FY2017 | FY2018 | FY2019 | FY2020 | FY2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Waste disposed (t) | 176 | 187 | 124 | 144 | 88 | |
| Proportion sent to landfill (%) | 11.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| Landfill waste (t) | 20.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| Energy use (oil equivalent: kl) |
Electric power | 912 | 918 | 867 | 792 | 712 |
| Fuel | 339 | 426 | 516 | 390 | 419 | |
| Total | 1,251 | 1,344 | 1,383 | 1,182 | 1,131 | |
| Greenhouse gas emissions (1,000t-CO2) | 2.6 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3.1 | 2.3 | |
| Water usage (1,000m3) | 12.0 | 10.4 | 8.8 | 7.2 | 15.0 | |
- FY: January to December
- Greenhouse gas emissions were calculated based on the Calculation and Reporting Manual for Greenhouse Gas Emissions jointly published by the Ministry of the Environment and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan. Since 2016, they were calculated based on the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Initiative.
YIA DIV.6 (Under the Hose Business Department) Environmental Data
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| Category | FY2017 | FY2018 | FY2019 | FY2020 | FY2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Waste disposed (t) | － | － | 11 | 113 | 88 | |
| Proportion sent to landfill (%) | － | － | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5.7 | |
| Landfill waste (t) | － | － | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5.0 | |
| Energy use (oil equivalent: kl) |
Electric power | － | － | 1,449 | 297 | 353 |
| Fuel | － | － | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | － | － | 1,449 | 297 | 353 | |
| Greenhouse gas emissions (1,000t-CO2) | － | － | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.7 | |
| Water usage (1,000m3) | － | － | 4.5 | 5.5 | 5.0 | |
- FY: January to December
- Greenhouse gas emissions were calculated based on the Calculation and Reporting Manual for Greenhouse Gas Emissions jointly published by the Ministry of the Environment and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan. Since 2016, they were calculated based on the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Initiative.
Fair Operating Practices
Corruption prevention
YIA has taken steps to ensure that corruption does not occur in our operations. We continuously improve our processes to make them more effective with checks and balances to make sure mistakes and fraud can not happen. In 2021 we continued to improve our internet security to make sure that our employees are not tricked into fraudulent losses.
Community Involvement and Development
Each production location undertakes activities to make donations to support events organized by the local community. This is the list for 2021.
| Organization | Amount Donated (USD) |
|---|---|
| Miracle Hill Ministries | ＄500.00 |
| Make a Wish South Carolina | ＄1,000.00 |
| Pickens County YMCA | $1,000.00 |
| Ohio School Resource Officers Association | ＄100.00 |
| Ohio Police Chief | ＄100.00 |
| United Way | $500.00 |
| Donation to local University | $500.00 |
| Relay for Life | $1,500.00 |
| Pickens County Sherriff’s Office Drug Prevention | $2,697.00 |
| School District of Pickens County Career and Technologies | $1000.00 |
| Hospice House of Pickens County | $500.00 |
| Oconee Humane Society | $1,000.00 |
| Hospice of Marion | $500.00 |
| Donation to Township | $200.00 |
| Total | $11,097 |
Donation made to a local softball team
community development
Terminal Care Center
vocational training school
Cancer Fund
