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title: YKK Sustainability Journal
description: YKK's efforts to protect the environment and to benefit employees, communities, and the thousands of companies that use YKK® fastening products.
image: https://go.ykkamericas.com/hubfs/Sustinable%20main.png
---
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## a little book
## about creating
## big change
Our Sustainability Journal chronicles YKK's
efforts to protect the environment and to
benefit employees, communities, and the
thousands of companies that use YKK®
fastening products.
How the fastening company YKK is helping lead sustainability in apparel, automotive, and industrial fields. It’s eco-friendly buttons, snaps, and zippers are helping designers create today’s sustainable products.
## by 2050,
**our loftiest**
**business goal**
**is to hit zero**
YKK sustainability vision 2050 is under way, creating a brighter future for nature and humanity. With our planet in peril, it's a welcomed light of hope.
[Learn more](https://ykkamericas.com/catalog/sustainable-journal/)
## sustainability vision 2050
**YKK’s action plan for a sustainable future**
[Learn more](https://ykkamericas.com/catalog/sustainable-journal/)
## to lower carbon emissions, we all need to
## step up
Sustainability and innovation are interlinked. YKK is focused on minimizing environmental impact with innovative ideas in design and manufacturing. It’s the right thing to do for the planet.
[Learn more](https://ykkamericas.com/catalog/sustainable-journal/)
## an innovation over 10 years in the making with
## water-saving benefits that
## last forever
To invent the ECO-DYE® technology, the first ever waterless dyeing technology for zippers, a team of innovators partnered with engineers, professors and their own curiosity.
[Learn more](https://ykkamericas.com/catalog/sustainable-journal/)
## make products
## that last, invest in community,
## protect the planet.
## repeat.
These days, with a planet in peril, YKK is leaning into the urgency of the moment, elevating sustainability efforts through innovation, while ensuring that producing high quality products goes hand-inhand with taking care of people and the world we live in.
[Learn more](https://ykkamericas.com/catalog/sustainable-journal/)
## cycle of
## goodness®
[Learn more](https://ykkamericas.com/catalog/sustainable-journal/)
## "no one
## prospers
## without
## rendering
## benefit
## to others"
## teaching more than sewing. stitching together dreams.
At YKK’s Social Development and Vocational Center in India, young women learn more than stitching, embroidery, computer skills and English. They are empowered to pursue their dreams and help their community thrive.
[Learn more](https://ykkamericas.com/catalog/sustainable-journal/)
## to help a
## community
## YKK went
## to school
"Working with our neighbors to create a safe environment for learning"
[Learn more](https://ykkamericas.com/catalog/sustainable-journal/)
## the ocean
## gives us life.
## let's return
## the favor.
Working with our neighbors in El Salvador to create a safe environment for learning.
[Learn more](https://ykkamericas.com/catalog/sustainable-journal/)
## Contact us
## about our
[Sustainable Products!](https://www.ykkfastening.com/sustainability/environmental.html#products)
##### Check our website!
- [Sustainable products](https://www.ykkfastening.com/sustainability/environmental.html#products)
- [IT'S NOT JUST A ZIP](https://www.ykkfastening.com/itsnotjustazip/)
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