JAPAN AUTOMOBILE RECYCLE NETWORK NEWS

Vol. 81

IRT 2014 heldin Kushiro
The 8th International Roundtable on
Automotive Recycling (IRT) 2014,
hosted by the Japan Automotive
Recyclers Association (NPO JARA), washeld from October 1 to 4 in Kushiro Cityof Hokkaido, Japan. Auto recycling
representatives from around the world
reported on the recycling situations intheir own countries and discussed futurebusiness development from theviewpoint of a global framework.

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JARA Chairman
Shigeru Tenmyo.
B a s e do ndiscussions ofreports on eachcountry’s current
status and issues on
the third and fourthdays, participants
adopted a sevenclause “KushiroStatement”. Thes t a t e m e n theightened the factthat recycling efforts
in the countries involved have achieved arecycling rate of higher than 95 percentof what is required by each country’scontrol regulations and that each of theparticipating associations havecontributed to the recycling business ineach country. In addition, the statement
acknowledged the importance of grassroot efforts to raise awareness of therecycling business, as well as theimportance of increasing interest bygovernments toward the auto recycling
business in each country and of diffusing
worldwide NPO JARA’s Automotive
Recycling Dictionary, which wasdesigned to support personnel training.

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CO2 Reduction Result(based on Super-Line System)

The use of Reuse Parts saved

2,891 tons of CO2 emissions
in September 2014
The reference figure represents thedifference of carbon dioxide (CO2)emissions at the vehicle repair usinggenuine (new) parts and recycled parts.**: Based on "Green Point System", which was
jointly developed by the Japan Automotive Parts
Recyclers Association and Waseda University
Environmental Research Institute using a life cycle
assessment (LCA) technique.

Recyclers Association (JAPRA) outlined
efforts in Japan to increase the use ofrecycled auto parts in the Japanesemarket. Because awareness of recycled
JAPRA Chairman Shimizu reports
parts is still low in Japan, Shimuzu
on auto recycling in Japan, stressing
asserted, “I believe that demand for
Globally targeted "Kushiro
the achievement of visualization ofrecycled parts will still grow in Japan.”Statement" adopted
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JAPAN AUTOMOBILE RECYCLE NETWORK NEWS No.81 NOVEMBER 2014 < 2 >JARA Corp. ties
with CarPart.com
On Oct. 3, JARA Corporation
announced that it formed a partnershipagreement w ith Car P a r t . c o m , t h eleading U.S. automotive recycled parts
system operator. The announcement wasmade at the venue of the IRT 2014 inKushiro. As the first step, JARA will
provide its inventory information ofrecycled auto parts to CarParts.com.
“We will enter the mutual distribution ofparts between Japan and the UnitedStates in the future,” said JARA Corp.
President Sosho Kitajima.
Kentucky-based CarPart.com is thelargest recycled parts distributor in theUnited States. More than 4,000
companies in North America areregistered with CarPart.com,representing 150 million registered parts
on its website, which attracts 400,000
monthly viewers, with 11 million parts
viewed per month. The website isavailable in English and Spanish, which–Continued from Page 1

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use such parts with a visualized factor ofthe contribution to the environment.
Overseas participants positively
responded to the system. “The systemtruly provides visualization of thereduced amount of CO2. It is a newapproach,” said an Indian industry
leader. Concerned parties overseas seemto be active in reducing CO2 whereas
calls to prevent global warming recently
seem to be waning in Japan, due toenergy shortages following the accidents
at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power
Plant hit by the Great East Japan
Earthquake and tsunami.
Participants share issues

encourage transactions in or with Europe,South America, and Australia. JARA
Corp. aims to complete the startup ofshipping within 2015. For systemcooperation with CarPart.com, JARA
Corp. says that a detailed schedule will be
set at the beginning of the next year.
Through its partnership with giant
North American network operator
CarPart.com, Japan’s JARA Corp. aims todevelop overseas markets for recycled
auto parts. Also through mutualdistribution between Japan and the UnitedStates, in which transaction volume isexpected to be large, the two companies
are likely to see further expansion of themarket.

Govt. hosts opinion
hearing from four
automotive groups
On Oct. 2, the Ministry of Economy,
Trade and Industry’s Recycling Working
Group and the Ministry of Environment’s
Automotive Recycling Subcommittee
Speakers from other countries
presented issues and confirmed that they
will support each other. In India, thedefinition of end-of-life-vehicles (ELVs)
is not clearly established. So the industry
association in India, in order to build abase of standards and regulations, will
actively promote information exchangewith other countries. In Australia, morethan 90 percent of recyclers do not meetthe safety requirements stipulated by thegovernment. As such, associations inother countries said they will help theAustralian industry create regulations.
Participants also decided to further
basic discussions on holding the next IRT
in Hungary.
In addition to the discussions and othergathering at the main venue, overseas
participants received a chance to tour thedismantling plant of Takahashi Shokai

held their thirty-third joint meeting. The
meeting was attended by automotive
industry representatives, academic
experts, and local body officials to gather
opinions on the Automobile Recycling
Law’s operational status and issues to beresolved.
As representatives of the “collector”
and “distributor” both specified under thelaw, four industry groups attended themeeting to present their reports on theoperational status of the law as well as
their efforts to improve operationalefficiency. They were the Japan
Automobile Dealers Association, Japan
Light Vehicle & Motorcycle Association,
Japan Used Car Dealers Association, andJapan Auto Auction Association. The
associations explained how they provide
to information to their member
companies, how they distinguish ELVs
from non-ELVs, actual operations as thecollector, and the industry’s positions andissues. At the meeting, participants
discussed the issues and solutions to beemployed from the viewpoint ofimproving and further promoting the 3Rsof automobiles, stable and efficient
implementation of the law, and the ideal
state of the recycling system. (Daily
Automotive News Oct. 9 issue)
Co. on the second day. During the visit,
the participants were impressed by thehigh levels of dismantling work and thecompleteness of the facilities, where they
witness the recycling processes used inreuse parts production and automobile
dismantling. They also had opportunities
to watch a nibbler machine go to work on
dismantling an ELV and to see how tires
are crushed, as examples of how resource
recycling is carried out in Japan.
A Spanish participant expressed praiseby saying, “The dismantling efficiency
here is more advanced than in Europe”.
Many participants also greatly evaluatedthe operators’ skilled control of thenibbler. As such, Takahashi Shokai wasable to present the quality of its facilities
and the advanced skills of its personnel inthe form of a “model plant” of automotive
recycling in Japan.

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