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| Promoting the formation of a cluster for recycling resources, energy, and environmental purification and restoration |
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In the Chugoku region, many companies have accumulated excellent technologies, know-how, and human resources relating to recycling, energy, and environment purification including the companies located in the complex of the Seto Inland Sea waterfront areas. By using these, together with creating a group of industries that has high levels of productivity and competitiveness that are compatible with the environment, the world's top-level recycling-oriented and environmentally friendly industry and society will be built. |
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Fields of resource recycling, energy, and environmental purification and restoration |
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Entire Chugoku region (Tottori Prefecture, Shimane Prefecture, Okayama Prefecture, Hiroshima Prefecture, and Yamaguchi Prefecture) |
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Chugoku Industrial Cluster Forum
URL: http://www.ciicz.jp/clusterhp/index.html
Chugoku Industrial Innovation Center
TEL: +81-82-241-9927 FAX: +81-82-240-2189
Chugoku New Business Conference
TEL: +81-82-221-2929 FAX: +81-82-221-6166
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Organization for Tottori Industrial Promotion, Shimane Industrial Promotion Foundation, Okayama Prefecture Industrial Promotion Foundation, Hiroshima Industrial Promotion Organization, Yamaguchi Industrial Promotion Foundation |
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| The network consists of 98 companies, 26 universities and public research institutes, 6 local governments, and 52 financial institutions. |
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Prompted by the activities of the Recycling and Environment Cluster in the Chugoku Region, a number of councils have been formed by dues-paying private sector companies and local government organizations are participating in cluster activities. By coordinating with these developments, progress is being made toward creating a basis for industry that is oriented toward recycling and the environment.
Projects are being pursued both domestically and overseas in such as areas as biomass and water environment restoration technology.These technologies are unique strengths of the Chugoku Region. |
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| There are many restrictions for the commercialization of recycled products in terms of quality and cost. In parallel with the formation of regional recycling system, positive support is made such as technological development by joint research, promotion of wide-area collaboration for ecological towns, and promotion of participation by users and administrations, and efforts are made for strengthening the competitiveness of the recycling-oriented industry and for market cultivation and expansion. |
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| Collaboration at such opportunities as the Chugoku Biomass Conference, etc. |
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Various advanced technologies and human resources are concentrated in the Chugoku region including the automobile industry, petrochemical complex, plastic industry, biological industry that belong to the Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan, the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Japan Society of Waste Management Experts, Japan Petroleum Institute, the Membrane Society of Japan, and Japan Society of Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers. By coordinating interindustrial collaboration among those various kinds of companies, I would like to accelerate and promote the realization of the "Resources Recycling Sub-cluster Plan" as a model plan and to promote the formation of a recycling-oriented and environmentally friendly society. |
Yoshiyuki Takeuchi |
| Chief Coordinator, Cluster Manager, Chugoku New Business Conference |
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(Results of FY 2007) |
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Number of new businesses launched:
(Number of “new goods and products produced” or “newservices provided”) |
459 |
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| Number of new businesses launched(in 5 years from FY2006): 800 businesses in 5 years |
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Main Participants of the Project
Private companies: Imanishi Manufacturing Co.,Ltd., Choshu Industry Co.,Ltd., Nakashima Propeller Co.,Ltd., Matsue Doken, Inc. (the members of Advisory Forum for Industrial Cluster Promotion)
Related administrative organizations: Organization for Tottori Industrial Promotion, Shimane Industrial Promotion Foundation, Okayama Prefecture Industrial Promotion Foundation, Hiroshima Industrial Promotion Organization, Yamaguchi Industrial Promotion Foundation, SMRJ
Financial institutions: Tottori Bank, Ltd., San-in Godo Bank, Ltd., Chugoku Bank, Ltd., Hiroshima Bank, Ltd., Yamaguchi Bank, Ltd., and other 43 banks (the members of Industrial Cluster Support Financial Forum in Chugoku area)
Others: Yamaguchi Technology Licensing Organization, Ltd. (the members of Advisory Forum for Industrial Cluster Promotion) |
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| ACHIEVEMENT EXAMPLE 1 |
Cluster business was technology adopted at Mazda Stadium (Hiroshima Municipal Baseball Stadium) |
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Chugoku New Business Conference compiled a portfolio of technologies of local companies and made a scale model of Mazda Stadium which introduced cluster member's environmental technologies. This scale model was used for sales promotion. As a result of their marketing efforts including PR at different venues, a Chugoku area technology was adopted at Mazda Stadium, which opened in March 2009.
Hiroshima University Professor Kaneyuki Nakane and the Gaia Cooperative have developed a unique bamboo and plastic rooftop garden system to promote greener areas. Called the Bamboo TECO Garden, it was created in an industry-academia-governmental collaboration and utilizes environmentally friendly bamboo charcoal. This innovative charcoal was adopted as the base material for trees planted around the stadium, a total of 400 square meters (478 square yards).
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The Mazda Stadium model used at the exhibition for PR |
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The trees around Mazda Stadium |
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| ACHIEVEMENT EXAMPLE 2 |
Supporting the development of water treatment technology overseas |
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A number of excellent companies with technologies of compact and medium-sized water processing facilities have concentrated in the Chugoku Region along the shoreline of the Seto Inland Sea to help controlling water issues such as red tides. In addition to compact size, these technologies are low-cost and easy to use, meeting the strong demand in developing countries overseas. Chugoku New Business Conference is supporting work in such markets, helping to improve water conditions throughout the world.
In FY 2008, an international conference was held in Shanghai, China, where Chugoku New Business Conference promoted technology and entered into business talks with Chinese companies. In FY 2009, a follow-up business delegation was sent to Suqian City in Jiangsu Province to continue discussions.
Also in FY 2009, the Chinese ambassador was invited to Hiroshima and other efforts are being made to support new markets, including the formation of a permanent support system for water technology companies in the Chugoku Region.
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A presentation at the international conference in Shanghai
business talks
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| ACHIEVEMENT EXAMPLE 3 |
Supporting new environmental business ventures |
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Chugoku New Business Conference has created a comprehensive support system to provide services from prototyping environment-related products to finding markets for them. With Chugoku New Business Conference as the organizing office, a prototype support team was formed from cluster companies to assist by requests from companies when it is difficult to find a location to manufacture the prototype or to run performance tests. The support team also produces the prototype products.
Next, a function evaluation team was composed of university and public research organizations to evaluate the product and provide market support.
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Prototype example 1: A foam glass block
Prototype example 2: Bamboo fiber urethane door trim material
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