Program

MATERIALS RESEARCH
MEETING 2021

Materials Innovation
for Sustainable Development Goals

2021 DECEMBER 13-16 PACIFICO YOKOHAMA

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Chika Kako

Toyota Motor Corporation

The impact of carbon neutrality on the automotive industry, and the actions on material

Abstract

Chika Kako joined the Organic Materials Department at Toyota Motor Corporation as a materials engineer upon graduation from Nara Women’s University in 1989. She has been responsible for developing the interior and exterior materials, then assigned to an overseas post by the R&D, Toyota Motor Europe in Belgium in 2001. After arriving back to Japan in 2004, she was transferred to the Lexus, has been involved product planning of RX, IS, then assigned as the Chief Engineer of Lexus CT and UX. Since the beginning of 2019, returned to material field.