In February 2013, Bridgestone Americas, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as BSAM), a member of the Bridgestone Group, received the "Environmental Achievement of the Year (Designated by Tire Technology International Awards for Innovation and Excellence 2013*1) in recognition of the implementation of advanced environmental protection related tire companies and teams. Annual Environmental Achievement Award )". Bridgestone was awarded the “Tire Technology of the Year (Tyre Technology Award of the Year)†in the previous evaluation of “Pavement State Discrimination Technology*2 based on the CAIS Conceptâ€.
This award-winning BSAM is located at the Bridgestone North American Technology Center in Ohio. This technology center is one of the Bridgestone Group's five global technology centers. It was established to research and develop the most advanced tire technology and officially opened a new office space in April 2012. The current technology center has about 450 employees. The newly-built office space adopts a design that takes into consideration human health and reduces the environmental load. This design has also passed the certification of “LeadershipEnergyandEnvironmentalDesign(LEED)*3†of the US building environmental protection standard.
The Bridgestone Group will continue to devote itself to environmental protection work and will continue to work hard to achieve a "sustainable development" society.
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1. "TireTechnologyInternationalAwardsforInnovationandExcellence2013" is a selection of tire experts and engineers and researchers from the TireTechnologyInternational magazine as selection committee members. They are experts in design and manufacturing technology, environmental achievements, tire technology development, best suppliers, and best tire manufacturers. Five areas for recognition. This Bridgestone won the five awards in the field of environmental performance.
2. "CAIS", which comes from Contact Area Information Sensing, is the general term for future technologies that bring new value to tires through the collection and analysis of information on tire ground planes. The Bridgestone Group has developed a technology based on the concept of “CAIS*1†that can determine the road state based on a tire that is in unique contact with the road surface when the car is traveling.
3. "LeadershipinEnergyandEnvironmentalDesign (LEED)" is a comprehensive performance evaluation index of the building environment developed by the United States non-profit group USGreenBuildingCouncil (USGBC).
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