Zero Emissions and Eco-Town

in Kawasaki

Kawasaki City, Japan

 Location of Kawasaki City

Kawasaki
City

Narita Airport
Haneda Airport

km

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 Profile of Kawasaki City
Population 1,531,646 people(Jan,2020)
Area 144.35 K㎡
Gross production 5,369 billion yen(2018)
of the city
Major Industries Manufacturing
Wholesale・Retail / Service
Major manufacturing Petroleum product / Steel
Industries Chemical industry

Developing industries Info / telecommunication

Highest elevation
148.0m (above sea level)
Asao-Ward Kurokawa area
Environment
Lowest elevation
- 0.365m (above sea level) Welfare / Life-science
Kawasaki-ward Oshima area

Vibrant city blessed with abundant human resources

<2014 Comparative Statistics of Large Cities>

・Population growth rate for 10 years (2004-2014) Ranked 1st
・Working-age population rate Ranked 1st
・Shipment value of manufactured goods per employee Ranked 1st
・Rate of persons working in academic and
research and development institutes Ranked 1st
(Provisional calculation by Kawasaki city based on categorization of business establishments)

・Average monthly consumption per household Ranked 1st

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Worldwide Companies in Kawasaki

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 Integration of Research and Development
※ Kawasaki Innovation status research
◎Number of R&D institutions: About 400 (preliminary results , FY 2017）

Canon (Office)
Suntory
Knor Foods (Head office/ R&D laboratory) Zeon
(Product development center) （Factory, R&D institution）
Canon (Office)
Senshu University Mitsutoyo (Head office) Asahi Kasei
Tokyo Ohka Kogyo (Head office)
(Factory)
NEC
St. marianna University 3 NOF(Plant)
(Office, Central research institute)
School of Medicine
4 Nidec New R&D Facility
1 ANA
Kuroda Precision Tonomachi Business Center
2 Industries
(Head office) NUC
（Industrial facilities,
1 Micon City (Minami-Kurokawa) 6 Solid Square Building Toshiba R&D department）
 Hollywood Cosmetics  Exa (Head office) (R&D center) 9
Fujitsu General Tonen General Sekyu
(R&D institute, Factory)  Dell (Head office) 6 (Factory, Central research institute)
2 Micon City (Kurigi)  Nokia (R&D center) (Head office)
5
 Canon Anelva (Head office) Techno Hub 7
 JCU (R&D Center) 7 Innovation Kawasaki Fujitsu 8 Nippon Shokubai
 e- Ohtama (THINK) (Head office, Factory)
(Factory)
(Testing R&B laboratory)  JFE Steel DC
Meji University Center (R&D laboratory) (Factory, Technology Department)
3 for Collaborative Innovation Kawasaki T. Hasegawa
Mitsubishi Kakoki
and Incubation (Head office)
8 Zero-emission (R&D center)
4 Kanagawa Science Park(KSP) Industrial Park
Mitsubishi Fuso Truck
 Kanagawa Academy of
9 KING SKYFRONT and Bus(Factory, R&D center) Dai-ichi High Frequency
Science and Technology
（Factory, Technology Department）
 Nihon L’Oreal  Central Institute or Unicarriers
(Research and innovation center) Experimental Animals (Head office, Global R&D center)
Mercedes Benz R&D Kawasaki Showa Denko (Factory, R&D center)
 Häagen-Dazs (R&D center)  Life Science and
(R&D/ Intellectual property management)
 DuPont (Electronics center) Environment
Research Center AJINOMOTO (Office, Research institute)
Shin-Kawasaki Canon (Office)
“Forest of Creation” Area (LiSE)
5  Johnson and Johnson New Energy and Industrial D&M holdings (Head office)
K2 Town Campus
(Science center) Technology Development
KBIC NANOBIC Organization (NEDO)
 Innovation Center of Toshiba Smart Community Center
 Keio Frontier Research and NanoMedicine
Education Collaborative (iCONM)
Square
 University Nano/Micro
Fabrication Consortium
 IBM Japan (R&D laboratory) ４
 View of coastal area

1967 (about 50 years ago) 2010

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 “Sharing of roles” & “Cooperative action”

Company Citizen
• Investment for pollution control • Civil action against pollution
• Development of pollution control • Public awareness for environment
technologies

Kawasaki City
• Pollution control agreement with
local industries
• Regulation for pollution control
• Pollution monitoring system

Improvement of the Environment

Accumulation of Pollution control technologies & Know-how

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 Eco-Town Project
Creation of Advanced Environmentally Harmonized Town 「Zero emissions Plan」
①Promotion of environmental industries on locally accumulated technologies
②Formation of resources cycling economy and society through reducing waste
generation and promoting waste recycling on site
Scheme of system（1997∼）

METI MOE

Approve

Subsides for
Eco-town plan made by local governments Subsides for survey,
equipment and planning etc.
facilities L.G. : subsidize L.G. : implement business （∼2004）
（∼2005）
＜Hard sector＞ ＜Soft sector＞
・Install advanced recycling facilities
・Dissemination, supply information etc.
・Establish R/D facilities
Implement business, invest Participate in business

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METI: Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
MOE: Ministry of the Environment ７
 Eco-Town Plans approved by Governments
Sapporo City Hokkaido
Start: 1997 Aomori Pref.
Approved sites: 26
Iida City (Nagano) Akita pref.
Subsidized facilities: 62

Toyama City

Okayama Pref.
Kamaishi City (Iwate)
Hiroshima Pref. Gifu Pref.

Ehime Pref. Hyogo Pref. Kurihara City (Miyagi)

Kitakyushu City

Tokyo
Ohmuta City
(Fukuoka)
Osaka Pref.
Minomata City Chiba City & Pref.
(Kumamoto) Teshima Town (Ehime)
Yamaguchi Pref. Kawasaki City
Suzuka City (Mie)
（Kanagawa Pref.）
Kochi City
Aichi Pref.
Yokkaichi City (Mie)
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 Background of Kawasaki Eco-Town Plan
Kawasaki coastal area in 1990s Environmental Issues in 1990’s

･ The bursting of the economic bubble ･ Waste became a social issue

･ Structural change in industry ･ Global warming

(Shift to IT and service)

･ Other Asian countries’ economic growth ･ Increase in energy consumption

“Industrial hollowing-out “New environmental issues

in Kawasaki Coastal Area” occurred”

Potential of Kawasaki Coastal Area

●Numerous vital companies ●Easy to secure a site for business
●Accumulated know-how on environmental technology

Kawasaki Eco-town Plan

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 Outline of Kawasaki Eco-Town
Appointed zone
• The plan was approved by MITI (at
present, METI) in 1997
• Appointed area: Whole Kawasaki
Coastal zone （2,800ha）
• Purpose 1: Facilitate companies
operating there to develop
resources recycling production
and install new equipment for
resources recycling
• Purpose 2 : Construct Kawasaki
Zero Emissions Industrial Park
oriented to waste reuse and
recycling
Kawasaki Zero emissions Industrial park

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 Kawasaki Eco-Town Plan
Kawasaki’s Fundamental Plan to create the Town harmonizing
with Environment
（Kawasaki Eco-Town Plan）

Companies go for Companies Research for Contribution for

eco-friendly collaborate sustainable international
together for eco- development of communication
friendly on site coastal area on and sending
environment performance
●Install and ●Construct Zero ●Collaboration with
construct Emissions ●Holding of
ＮＰＯs (Industrial
recycling facilities Industrial Park Business Creation
Kawasaki
●Survey possible Liaison Centre etc) International
way to use and studies on Eco-Tech Fair
resources and advanced
resources recycling
waste in and unused heat
companies reuse

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 Resources Recycling Facilities
Reuse of waste plastics
Capacity (plastics) 25,000t／year JFE Plastic Resource Corp.
for blast furnace
Governmental subsidy : 1,372,204,000 yen
2000 ∼

Recycling of
used electric appliances Capacity 400,000∼500,000 sets／year JFE Urban Recycle Corp.
2001 ∼

Concrete setting frame production

Capacity (plastics) 20,000t／year JFE Plastic Resource Corp.
from waste plastic
Governmental subsidy : 1,300,000,000 yen
2002 ∼

Material production for ammonia Capacity (plastics) 65,000t／year

from waste plastics Ammonia production 58,000t／year SHOWA DENKO K.K.
2003 ∼ Governmental subsidy : 3,700,000,000 yen

Capacity (used mix paper) 81,000t／year

Used mix paper recycling
Produced toilet and tissue paper 54,000t／year CORELEX SAN-EI CO.,LTD
2002 ∼ Governmental subsidy : 2,100,000,000 yen

※ Others DC (Cement products) and YAKIN-Kawasaki (Non-ferrous products) implement recycling

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 Resources Recycling Facilities
DC CO.,LTD. JFE group companies

Recycling cement production Reusing material for blast furnace

from waste plastic/Concrete setting
frame production from waste
plastics/Used electric appliances
recycling

SHOWA DENKO K.K.

Material production for

ammonia from waste
plastics Kawasaki Zero Emissions Industrial Park

Radius of circle CORELEX SAN-EI CO.,LTD.

1.5 km
Toilet paper production from mix
paper in used papers
 Kawasaki Zero Emissions Industrial Park

• Industrial Park was launched as model

facilities for Eco-town plan in this area
(operation started in November 2002)

• Minimization of environmental load in the

park by reuse and recycling of waste and
cascade use of energy

Kawasaki Zero Emissions Industrial Park

• The whole industrial park obtained
ISO14001 certification in March 2005 Location Mizue-town, Kawasaki Ward
Area 77,464m2
No of 13 （metal fabrication, paper, surface
companies plating etc.）

Workers About 400

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 Companies’ Collaboration in Kawasaki Eco-Town
Non ferrous metal
Non ferrous scrap
production furnace

Non ferrous metal

Ferrous metal
Ferrous scrap
production furnace

Used electric appliances

Used electric recycling equipments
Appliances Ferrous metal
Material production
for blast furnace

Construction board frame material

Waste plastics
production
Ammonia production
Material for
Mud from ammonia production Ammonia
construction site

Cement production
Sewage
plant mud Cement

Sewage treatment Used paper recycling

plant
Used paper Treated sewage water Toilet paper

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 Examples of upgrade in Kawasaki Eco Town:
Overview of the FS for the recycle system upgrade using IoT
Objective
◎ Upgrade recycle system and reduce carbon emission in Kawasaki Eco Town
◎ Start FS to adapt IoT technologies for recycling industry in cooperation with
the enterprises in Kawasaki
◎ FS on the profitable business model. Perform actions that will be possibly
applied in other industries
・Partners -NEC Corporation ［Verify IoT technology application］
-NAKASHO ［Offer necessary infrastructure for the recycling
system upgrade］
-Resource Circulation Network ［Verify overall effects］
・ Main survey ① Measuring the emission rate by video analyzing program
② Optimization route for wastes collection by using system
・ Results
① [Video analyzing] ② [Optimization route ]
-Errors of ±20 % or so -Display the shortest distance
under prescribed condition -The route will be shortened about 9.2%

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Moving ever forward:
City of Kawasaki Green Innovation Guidelines

Four pillars of the effort to pursue green innovation

1. Promoting environmental technologies and industries

2. Creating environmentally friendly mechanisms

3. Cooperation action among various players

4. International contributions through environmental

technologies

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 Summary

◆Among approved 26 Eco-towns, Kawasaki Eco-town promotes recycles at

a high standard; demonstrating a ‘showcase’ (benchmark) role as to
resource recycling.
◆Its remarkable advantage is collaboration with manufacturers including
material makers. Its recycle facility has the function to process industrial
wastes into raw fuel for other industries.
◆The coastal area of Kawasaki City aggressively recycles/reuses energy
and water, and promotes the comprehensive recycling system which is
well-suited “Smart community model”.

◆We will promote activities of Kawasaki Eco-town further toward green

innovation, while it has been started for “promoting environmental
industry” and “establishing the recycling-based society” so far.

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 Kawasaki International Eco-Tech Fair
13th Kawasaki International Eco-Tech Fair

◎Date Nov.12th and Nov.13th 2020

◎Venue Culttz Kawasaki
◎In association with
“33rd Tech-Trade Fair ~Techno-Transfer in Kawasaki 2020~”
◎Categories
Air, Soil and Water Environment Business / Hydrogen
energy / Water, Recycling Business / Energy saving, Energy
Full view 1
Management / Renewable energy etc.

<Previous results>
◎Visitors Approx. 16,900 visitors
◎Exhibitors 239 organizations / 299 booths
(including Techno-Transfer’s booths)
◎Visitors from overseas 150 overseas visitors from 38
countries including China, Korea, America, Russia, India,
Brazil, Germany, Denmark, Indonesia, Vietnam, Czech, Full view 2
Malaysia, Ukraine, Myanmar, etc.
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Thank you for your attention.