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| Aiming to form a world-class advanced base for the environment and recycling |
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This cluster intends to make the Kyushu region a world-class advanced base for the environment and recycling by expanding and deepening its network, and supporting the creation of business in the environmental industrial fields of waste management, recycling, pollution prevention equipment, eco-materials, and new energy sources (such as photovoltaic and biomass power generation). |
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Fields of environmental industries and recycling |
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Entire Kyushu region (Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Oita, Miyazaki, and Kagoshima Prefectures) |
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Kyushu Recycle and Environmental Industry Plaza (K-RIP)
URL: http://www.k-rip.gr.jp/
Kyushu Industrial Technology Center
TEL: +81-92-474-0042 FAX: +81-92-472-6609 |
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Kitakyushu Foundation for the Advancement of Industry Science and Technology, Nagasaki Industry Promotion Foundation, Minamata Environmental Research & Develop Center Co., Ltd., Miyazaki Prefectural Industrial Support Foundation, Amami Agricultural Research Center |
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In addition to about 300 enterprises NPOs and other corporate members, and 40 administrative organizations, K-RIP has academic members represented-not universities but around 80 individual professors. Thus, K-RIP can realize joint projects with universities as well as flexible collaboration to provide consultations for participating enterprises.
We aim at broader and deeper collaboration with 5 core organizations to provide a collaborative system for solving member's problems. |
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| ”Regional development”, ”international expansion”, ”human resource development”, and ”information service” should be regarded as the topics of focal point to facilitate supporting national and international expansion of regionally based excellent enterprises, as well as fostering prospective young and industrial people in the environmental industry through close collaboration of five core regional organizations in the area of Kyushu. |
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| Regional development; international expansion; human resource development; and; information service; should be regarded as the topics of focal point to facilitate supporting national and international expansion of regionally based excellent enterprises , as well as fostering prospective young and industrial people in the environmental industry through close collaboration of five core regional organizations in the area of Kyushu. |
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| This initiative is going forward in cooperation with the Kyushu Regional Biomass Council, which in turn is being implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. Also, environmental business exchanges are taking place in coordination with the Kyushu Regional Environment Office of the Ministry of the Environment. |
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I look at the world from the vantage point of Kyushu. We are working to make K-RIP into an environmental innovator for Asia, drawing on the unique features of Kyushu in terms of antipollution technology, biomass, and its proximity to other Asian countries. At the same time, we are working hard to stay in step with global trends as we move toward a sustainable low carbon and resource recycling society.
In FY 2009, ”discovery of local businesses, ” ”international business support, ” and ”human resource development” are considered as the strategic triad. Particularly, ”business chance making” will be reinforced together with ”hands-on support for individual enterprises” to become a top-niche enterprise No. 1 in the environmental sector. |
| Makoto Iizuka |
| K-RIP Cluster Manager |
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Takahito Okumura
K-RIP Cluster Manager |
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Kyushu is well-positioned to support the development of environmental businesses, thanks to the region’s expertise in biomass and antipollution-environmental cleanup technologies. Kyushu is also rich in technologies which have been developed in response to the region’s experience in dealing with pollution and its need to purify its closed water areas and dispose of livestock wastes. Moreover, with the growing awareness of environmental issues in recent years, there has been an increasing number of projects which are moving us toward the goal of a low carbon society. We have also seen more and more environmental industry exchanges within the East Asian region.
By promoting exchange projects which respond to the needs and characteristics of each company and by intensifying the provision of information through linkages to multiple media channels, our goal is to create an internationally competitive environmental industry cluster in Kyushu. In so doing, we will create a climate that fosters the development of people who have an outlook that is at once local and global.
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| Number of new businesses launched: |
361 |
| Number of new businesses start-ups: |
14 |
| Number of secondary businesses start-ups: |
32 |
| Number of businesses launched overseas: |
6 |
| Number of top-niche companies/only-one companies: |
6 |
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| (Results to FY 2008) |
| Number of businesses launched: 1,500 |
| Number of Companies newly established:
25 |
| Number of Businesses launched overseas:
20 |
| Number of top niche companies/only-one companies: 10 |
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Main Participants of the Project
Private companies (300 companies): Environmental Technology Service Co.,Ltd., Tagawa Sangyo Co.,Ltd., Kyoeishigen Co.,Ltd., The Merry Corporation, YBM Co.,Ltd., Nishimura Works Inc., Masaki Envec Co.,Ltd., Fujishima Co.,Ltd., Kiyomoto Co.,Ltd., Amami Oshima Kaiun Shuzo Co.,Ltd., Hinode Co.,Ltd., EcoFactory Co.,Ltd., etc.
Related administrative organizations (40 organizations): Governor's Association of Kyushu Region, Fukuoka Prefecture, Saga Prefecture, Nagasaki Prefecture, Kumamoto Prefecture, Oita Prefecture, Miyazaki Prefecture, Kagoshima Prefecture
Universities and public examination and research institutes: about 80 individual members
Financial institutions (2 organizations):
Fukuoka Bank, The Nishi-Nippon City Bank, Ltd.
Others: Tohmatsu Venture Support Co.,Ltd., Kyushu Economic Federation, Japan Consulting Engineers Association, Project Team Consulting Engineers Club, Kyushu Federation Industrial Waste Management Associations, Recycle One, Inc., etc. |
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| ACHIEVEMENT EXAMPLE 1 |
Business innovation from the human resources development project “Cluster University“ |
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In 2002, The Merry Corporation participated in “Cluster University, “ a training initiative sponsored by K-RIP. Through the group training activities of this initiative, The Merry Corporation created a business plan they call “The Merry System, “ which is a recycling system for use within food product residue regions, and actually decided to implement this business model. In 2005, this plan was selected as a “K-RIP project“ by the K-RIP funding organization and the business was launched with the help of startup money from this fund.
The project was selected by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry as a “Green Servicizing Project“ for the FY 2007-2008 period, and The Merry Corporation succeeded in scaling up the project and getting it on track. At the 2008 Hokkaido Toyako Summit, 400,000 recycled disposable bamboo chopsticks manufactured by The Merry Corporation were used by restaurants at the summit location and, with that, these chopsticks became instantly known across Japan. Sales have reached approximately 230 million yen (for the period ending June 2008). |
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Participating company comment:
We got into the environmental business in order to put into practice our philosophy of, “It's fun to make the customer happy -- it's fun to contribute to society -- it's fun to make money, “ but it wasn't so easy to get the business going and we had a number of hurdles to overcome.
Our participation in the “Cluster University“ happened at a time when we did not have much in the way of business resources, a business plan, or a network. We got a lot of assistance from K-RIP, and with that help, the business has been going strong for 10 years and has attained the size shown in the graph on the left.
The “merry“ in The Merry System refers to the “merry“ in merry-go-round. And our motto is to go forward joyfully with environmental protection and business promotion. Our plan is to play a part in that process as we move forward, step by step, toward the goal of creating a sustainable recycling and low carbon society. |
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Yasushi Matsuo
CEO, The Merry Corporation |
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| ACHIEVEMENT EXAMPLE 2 |
Total matching by K-RIP |
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| Since it became a member of K-RIP in 2008, Yagyu Bosui Giken has participated in various K-RIP activities. With its being named an “FY 2008 K-RIP sales channel development project“ eligible for full support in open-application sales as a new business started up in FY 2008, Yagyu has participated in exhibitions and has had opportunities to present its products to large corporations. The company has also succeeded in securing partners for joint research and product development and has opened up sales channels by finding joint sales partners and new sales outlets. |
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Participating company comment:
Our company uses shirasu (a white pumiceous soil) from Kagoshima Prefecture in southern Kyushu as the main ingredient in “Kiyomaru-kun, “ a water purification material which we manufacture and sell. Since we joined K-RIP last year, we have enjoyed many opportunities to tell people about our product and we have succeeded in forming venture businesses with several member companies. Also, we received a big boost by being named a “sales channel development project“ and as a result have been able to close the kinds of deals we could not have imagined before. In the area of civil engineering, our company has been selected for dredging projects and other public works, and we see new opportunities coming up every day.
I would like to express my appreciation to all the people who are participating in this initiative. We consider it a great honor to be playing a even a small part in pursuing K-RIP’s goal of stimulating the regional economy through the industrialization of environmental initiatives. |
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Yoshiharu Yagyu
CEO, Yagyu Bosui Giken Co., Ltd |
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