Awarded the "Chairman's Award of the Industrial Environment Management Association" at the 2012 Resource Recycling Technology and System Awards.

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Our company received the "Chairman's Award of the Japan Industrial Waste Management Association" at the 2012 Resource Recycling Technology and System Awards. The award ceremony will be held on November 29, 2012 (Thursday) at 13:15 at the Mechanical Promotion Hall (3-5-8 Shiba Park, Minato-ku, Tokyo, next to Tokyo Tower). The award was given for our project titled "Closed System for Plating Rinse Process Using Cylinder-Type Ion Exchange Equipment and Metal Resource Recovery by Resource Recycling Center," which has been recognized for its contribution to waste reduction and resource recycling over 36 years since its commercialization in 1976. This project features a system that purifies and enables the recycling of cleaning wastewater generated in the plating processes of mainly small and medium-sized businesses using cylinder-type ion exchange resin towers. Additionally, the saturated cylinder-type ion exchange resin towers are collected by the Resource Recycling Center for centralized regeneration. The nickel-containing sludge and copper-containing sludge obtained during the regeneration of ion exchange resin are reprocessed at smelters. Our company also recovers and reprocesses some metals as metal foils through electrolysis. With this system, we can reduce the water usage in our customers' rinsing processes by up to 1/10, and as a result of centralized processing, we have achieved efficient recovery of nickel-containing sludge and copper-containing sludge.

Awarded the "Industrial Environmental Management Association President's Award"

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The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry supports the Japan Association for Industrial Waste Management and widely solicits projects that have characteristics of excellent technology development contributing to waste reduction, reuse, and recycling, with the aim of promoting circular business through encouragement and dissemination. This is implemented as the "Resource Circulation Technology and System Award".

“Closed System for Plating Rinse Process Using Cylinder-Type Ion Exchange Machine and Metal Resource Recovery by Resource Recycling Center”

This project purifies the cleaning wastewater generated in the plating process of mainly small and medium-sized enterprises using a cylinder-type ion exchange resin tower for recycling. Additionally, the saturated cylinder-type ion exchange resin towers are collected by the resource recycling center for centralized regeneration. The nickel-containing sludge and copper-containing sludge obtained during the ion exchange resin regeneration are recycled at the smelter. Our company also recovers and recycles some metals as metal foil through electrolysis.

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Cylinder-type ion exchange machine "Patrone i" *Video available
We will recycle water and metals through collection and retrieval!

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Resource Center System
We will recycle water and metals through collection and retrieval!

This is a recovery and regeneration system for a cylinder-type ion exchange tower that achieves water recovery and metal recovery in water washing processes. Saturated cylinder-type ion exchange towers are collected at our "Resource Center," and the regenerated cylinders are reused repeatedly by users. Components such as heavy metals adsorbed by the ion exchange resin are sorted and regenerated at the "Resource Center," and metals are sent to Yamamoto Refinery as valuable resources to be reused as metal raw materials. With the equipment enhancement in April 2010, the "Resource Center" has become even more functional, concentrating and purifying chromic acid leachate to the recovery standard for re-resourcing through a chromic acid recovery device. Additionally, copper and nickel, which were traditionally turned into sludge and re-resourced at Yamamoto Refinery, are now recovered as metal foil using a roll-type electrolysis device, achieving improved resource recovery efficiency and reduced waste volume.