TBM is now planning to release a biodegradable LIMEX at home and abroad. By 2030 EU aims to achieve the society where single-use plastic packages will no longer be used in EU and people reuse and recycle all of the plastic materials. This movements led by EU Commission had great impact on the world demands for biodegradable materials and plastic alternatives.
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TBM is now planning to release a biodegradable LIMEX at home and abroad. By 2030 EU aims to achieve the society where single-use plastic packages will no longer be used in EU and people reuse and recycle all of the plastic materials. This movements led by EU Commission had great impact on the world demands for biodegradable materials and plastic alternatives.
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TBM is now planning to launch a furniture laminate sheet at home and abroad to meet the growing demands for ecological materials.

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LIMEX received the “Red Dot Award: product design 2018” ( Sponsored by North Rhine Westphalia Design Center, Germany)

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TBM has won “COOL JAPAN AWARD”(held by: COOLJAPAN Association) at COOL JAPAN AWARD 2017 Awards ceremony. 26 products out of 104 have been nominated to COOL JAPAN 2017, selected by 100 foreign jury members.

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TBM and Ricoh have collaborated in the distribution of LIMEX sheets for POD (Print On Demand) market.

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Following “Good Design Award 2017 Good Design Best 100”. We would like to announce that LIMEX business card received a special award “Production”

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Based on this service partnership, The Japanese version of CDP report of this year (Climate Change/Water) are made using a new material LIMEX. These reports have been distributed at 2017 CDP Japan report conference held at U Thant International Hall.

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LIMEX Business Card Received “Good Design Award for 2017 Good Design Best 100”
TBM’s LIMEX business card has been awarded “Good Design Best 100” (Sponsored by Japan Institute of Design Promotion). LIMEX business card has been highly evaluated as a result of pursing innovative environmental performance and its design.

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TBM has been selected as one of the five top companies to participate in the Innovation Showcase of Japan US Innovation Awards Program in 2017.
The event will be held at Stanford University on the 28th of July. Japan US-Innovation Awards are aiming for revitalization of innovation activities by selecting the innovational pioneering venture companies in Japan and US.
Successful and growing startup companies such as Tesla Motors Inc., Mercari, Inc. and LINE Corporation won the awards or was selected as Innovation Showcase companies previously. TBM will continue to strengthen our business by increasing business cases internally and internationally, receiving such honorable recognition.

TBM Co., Ltd. would like to announce that our company was named the winner of Energy & Sustainability Stevie® Award in the Product Design and Development category and Manufacturing Industries Stevie® Award in the Corporate Innovation category in the fourth annual Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards today.
　
The Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards are the only business

　
Stevie Awards (Based in Washington D.C. in the U.S.) are conferred in seven programs, and the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards are one of them.
　
Stevie Awards were founded in 2002. The Stevie Awards are widely considered to be the world’s premier business awards, conferring recognition for achievement in programs such as The International Business Awards for fifteen years.

TBM/LIMEX is to be featured in the “Evening Express” section of NIKKEI express program, scheduled for broadcast as a series on Economy cannel on the 28th of April from 21:00 ~.

TBM, JGC Corporation and National Industrial Clusters Development Program have reached a basic agreement on March 14, 2017 to explore the possibility of expanding LIMEX business into Saudi Arabia.
　
In accordance with this basic agreement, TBM will conduct a feasibility study of manufacturing LIMEX products in Saudi Arabia. And to begin with this agreement, TBM will strive to expand the LIMEX business globally.
　
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TBM is to be featured in the “The king of Saudi Arabia, Salmon” section of World Business satellite program, will be broadcasted about a cooperation agreement manufacturing with JGC Corporation and NICDP (Saudi Arabia), schedule for broadcast on TV Tokyo on the 14th of March.

TBM and Kingsoft Inc. have signed a sales distribution agreement. From today, November 28th (Mon), users of Kingsoft’s cloud-based business card management system, CamCard Business, will be able to access special promotion pages and purchase LIMEX cards at promotional prices, directly from CamCard Business’s card data management screen. In this way, both companies aim to provide a completely integrated business card ordering service to CamCard Business users, encompassing the

TBM and Toppan Printing have signed a basic agreement for joint development work aimed at the expansion of applications of the environmental material LIMEX. Up until now, the companies have been looking into the potential business opportunities provided by LIMEX, by combining the technology behind TBM’s new material, with the printing technology, plus the marketing and sales power of Toppan Printing.

Going forward, based on this basic agreement, the two

An article about our company has been featured on Japan’s Nikkei newspaper (morning edition) under the title of “New discovery! Japanese Unicorn TBM Creates a New Material from Limestone—No Need for Paper, Plastic Substitute, or Water”

The article covers the development of our new material LIMEX, including our future plans for factory development and overseas expansion. Please feel free to read the article!

We are pleased to announce that our company has been selected as the first annual winner of the Social Impact Award for Companies Achieving the Biggest Social Impact in the World (“Plug and play awards LIMEX the first annual Social Impact Award”), by one of the three biggest accelerators in Silicon Valley, United States, specializing in the growth and development of startup companies. We are also pleased to announce that LIMEX was awarded second prize, under the New Materials and Packaging Category, at the pitch event Plug and Play Expo, held on October 27th (US time). TBM was also awarded top position at the pitch event held by Plug and Play in July this year “Batch 2: Plug

LIMEX was featured on Machikado Johoshitsu of the Ohayo Nippon program on NHK News, on October 21st (Fri).
Based on the title of “Is this paper?” the program showcased our company’s business cards made of limestone, rather than paper, presenting applications for this new material and broadcasting footage of our factories in Shiroishi.

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August 4 (Thursday) at 22:00～ TV program, The NIKKEI broadcast about TBM -LIMEX by the special TV program on ‘The Cambria Palace by their 10 anniversary 500 times Memorial. Performer : Mr. Nobuyoshi Yamasaki (TBM Co., Ltd Chief Executive Officer)   Kazuhide Sekiyama ( CEO of Spiber Co., Ltd.) Host : Mr. Ryu Murakami and Ms. Eiko Koike. The program has been introduced as many as five hundred people’s various episode by lot of business manager. We TBM were selected by the program at the event which marks the stages of their 10 anniversary 500 times Memorial, for the venture corporation which can change the future for the another 10 years. It is the utmost honor for me to be treated like this and We are grateful for everyone’s cooperation now. I would appreciate it if you could watch the TV program.

  ≪The NIKKEI broadcast about TBM -LIMEX by the special TV program on ‘The Cambria Palace by their 10 anniversary 500 times Memorial.≫