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JARA creates four
expert groups
The Japan Automotive Recyclers
Alliance (JARA) Group has recently
created a series of expert groups in key
business areas to further encourage sales
promotion activities across the country.
The move is seen as an effort to prepare
for the recycling industry’s future.
The expert groups were created in the“Front Staff,” “Production,” “Export” and“Material Recycling” areas. JARA BlockLeaders in each region took the post ofexpert group leader. Group members canrequest to attend meetings held by othergroups.

Goals for this fiscal year set up
in four groups
In April, the first meeting of the expert
groups took place. The front staff expert
group, which is led by group leader
Mitsuaki Miura, president of SIPS
Corporation, Kanto Block leader, held themeeting attended by 28 people from 23
companies. The group focused on how toclose the sales capability gap capabilities
between employees. The meetingmembers agreed to find where the gaps

exist and then to use select measures toencourage employees with minor sales
capabilities to close those gaps. Thegroup also agreed to create a manual forsales, front staff and management.
The production expert group, whichis led by Koichi Funakoshi, president ofTechnical Clean Co., Chushikoku-Kyushu
Block leader, was attended by 24 people
from 22 companies. They chose the parts
production of import vehicles,
commercial vehicles, and trucks as thetheme for discussion. The choice of thistheme was supported by many people inpre-meeting questionnaires. Althoughsuch vehicles presently represent a small
share in the entire body of JARA
transactions, the expert group aims tochange weaknesses to strengths in thefuture. They plan to share information
about good-selling parts and vehicles andaim to find a common method for system
registrations of such vehicles and parts.
In the meeting of the export expert
group, which is led by Isao Okano,president of Okano Jidousha Co., ChubuKansai Block leader, a total of 28 people
from 24 companies participated. They
discussed information sharing of pasttrouble cases and the criteria and priority
for parts destined for the Japanese
domestic market and those for export.
They also acknowledged the need for ajoint shipment of JARA members on aregional basis, as well as the need for a

Electrified vehicles
account for over 10% in
used vehicle exports

Some countries offer tax breaks for
HVs as anti-pollution measure

Electrified vehicles such as hybrid
vehicles (HVs) and electric vehicles(EVs) have been increasing in the used
vehicle export market in Japan.
In 2017, exports of used electrified
vehicles surpassed 10 percent of the used
vehicle export total for the first time. The
demand is high in Mongolia, which offers

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list of export information by country,
which would act as a contact list ofbuyers.
The materials recycling expert
group, which is led by Kensaku
Takahashi, president of Takahashi
Shoukai Co., Hokkaido-Tohoku Blockleader, held a meeting attended by 18
people from 17 companies. Japan
Productivity Center’s Kazunori Kitagawa
gave a lecture on trends in the platformbusiness of automobiles and futureregulations to be enacted in the EU. In
the group discussions, the members
agreed to select the urgent issues forfollowing meetings. To this end, they will
create a sample of materials per vehicle
by equivalent weight for the next
meeting.

Expected synergy effectBy creating new expert groups,
attending members can send theinformation to other groups andcommittees. They also bring issues thatwere broached in other group meetings totheir own meetings.
Moreover, information gathered by acompany is brought to block meetings ineach region and shared with the meetingmembers. This could create a synergy
effect whereby automotive recycling
could be seen much more clearly andaccurately from a group-wide
perspective. (JARA Public Relations)tax benefits for electrified vehicles inorder to ease air-pollution. Sri Lanka andRussia are also big importers of suchused vehicles.
In 2017, used vehicle exports totaled
1 , 2 8 9 , 8 3 3 u n i t s . Of t h a t , 1 3 7 , 6 5 5vehicles were electrified, accounting for10.7 percent of all used vehicle exports.
HV exports numbered 131,721 units,
while those of EVs totaled 5,050 units.
The biggest importer of electrified–Continued on Page 2

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Toyota president steers
toward buildinga mobility company
Akio Toyoda, President, Toyota Motor
Corporation, unveiled the mid- to longterm company policy toward building amobility company. In his address, he said,“I have decided to ‘redesign’ Toyota froma car-making company into a mobilitycompany.”
The move will be achieved by costcutting efforts and the company’s
Toyota Production System (TPS). In themobility services, TPS’s “just in time”
will be transformed into “JIT Service,”
a way of conducting business that aims
to connect all manufacturers, dealers,and alliance partners through wastefree, lean operations. In China and otherfast-growing markets, Toyota’s goals
are focused on not only the “tree rings”
effect, but also growth rate equivalent toeach country’s market.
On May 9, following a press
conference on the company’s financial

HVs and EVs over 10% in used
vehicle exports
Continued from Page 1vehicles was Mongolia, which imported
26,373 units. Sri Lanka also offers excisetax breaks for HVs and imported 24,779
used electrified vehicles. Pakistan andRussia imported 18,759 and 17,263 units,respectively. These four importers
accounted for 66 percent of total HV andEV exports from Japan.
On the other hand, New Zealand
imported 2,695 units of EV, the most of
any country to which Japan exports EVs.
The figure was followed by Russia withresults for the 2018 fiscal year that ended
on March 31, Akio Toyoda explained thecompany’s mid- to long-term visions.
“A mobility company is a company thatprovides services related to movement forpeople around the world. The significanceis that it represents a fork in our current
path of adherence to convention, as wellas the choice of a future in which the pathis created by one’s own hands.” He added,“One might say that it is comparable
to switching the way one drives on acircuit to the way on drives in a rally. Ina rally, a driver and a co-driver, in fullcoordination, compete in how fast they
can drive on real roads full of changes.”
Toyota is taking up the challenge ofgreatly reducing lead times needed forproviding services by introducing TPSbased operations at all workplaces. To
compete with US IT giants, Toyota will
introduce JIT-based services throughcooperation with dealers. (Daily
Automotive News, May 10, 2018 issue)

METI supports "flying car"development in 2020s inview of commercialization

Council, the ministry announced for thefirst time a plan to support the “flyingcar” project and created a cross-divisionalteam centered on its Manufacturing
Bureau.
The project will be established asa national project, thereby requiring aliaison committee with the transportministry, police agencies among others.
At the same time, legislative meetings
will be held to identify and resolve issues.
In the technical areas, safety standards
will be established by forming aconsortium. The participating companies
include Toyota Motor Corporation,
Cartivator, in which NEC Corporation
invested to develop a flying car, Subaru
Corporation, which makes drones, Honda
Motor Co., which has an aircraft division,as well as other Japanese manufacturersof drones, batteries, and motors.
The U.S.-based Uber Technologies
and the Airbus of Europe, pictured below,
have already announced their intent tojoin in developing the flying cars. To keep
pace with others, the Japanese METI
intends to accelerate the development offlying car by combining the expertise ofJapanese companies. (Daily AutomotiveNews, April 26, 2018 issue)

The Ministry of Economy, Tradeand Industry (METI) recently unveiled
their outlines for supporting a “flyingcar” project. The project is likely tobe approved in the cabinet as “Future
Investment Strategy 2018” and thenbuttressed by the FY2019 budget.
In March 2018, in a meeting of METI’sadvisory body at the Industrial Structure
1,338 units and Georgia with 744 units.
As for PHVs (Plug-in hybrids), Russia
and New Zealand imported 394 units and340 units, respectively.
In Japan, sales of electrified vehicles
accounted for 39.1 percent in 2017. On
the other hand, recycled vehicles such ase n d - o f - l i f e - v e h i c l e s ( E LV s ) o n l ynumbered about 10 thousand units pery e a r. M a n y u s e d H V s a n d o t h e relectrified vehicles are going abroad.
With the increase in electrified vehicle
exports, the demand for scan tools formaintenance and inspection of highvoltage equipment might become strong.
At the same time, recycling of suchvehicles will remain an issue. (Daily
Automotive News, May 8, 2018 issue)

CO2 Reduction Effect(based on JARA System)

The use of Reuse Parts saved

2,240 tons of CO2 emissions
in April 2018
The reference figure represents the difference ofcarbon dioxide (CO2) emissions at the vehicle repair
using genuine (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.

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Dismantling process flow chart
How the Car Dismantling machine works
1. Receiving andevaluating cars
Incoming
vehicles tested
on dynamometerto check engine
condition

3. Parts collection

4. Collecting
undercarriage
parts and engines

Efficiently collectreusable parts

The car is turned to safely
collect engine, exhaustsystem and suspension parts

Remove fluids such as fuel, various types ofoil and chlorofluorocarbon gas

13CuAlCopperAluminium

63.546

Tyres

BatteriesDoorsSeats

Bonnets

ExhaustEngine Suspension

After treating, the scrap cars
are cut up and crushed orpressed into materials thatmeet industry needs

After pre-processing,
the car is sorted into raw
components such as
ferrous, non-ferrous andplastics
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2. Collecting fuel, fluids andchlorofluorocarbon gas

6.Volume
reduction
processes

5. Car dismantlingprocess

Harnesses

MotorsRadiator

26.982Blocks of material can then be
distributed to smelting plants
for recycling

5. Processes
after removingparts
Once thoroughly
cleaned, the parts
become good quality
recycled parts

The Evolution of car dismantling industry by Kobelco
Four times* the vehicle dismantlingcapability compared with hand dismantling.

EngineCatalytic
AgentsBody SteelSeats

Improved recovery
rate of rare earth metals
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FeAl

Cu

Pt

Pd

Iron

Aluminium

CopperPlatinum

Palladium55.933*In one day (Kobelco test figures)

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Separation of these valuable
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One operative
working by hand.
Radiator

60 vehicles >One operativein a Kobelco
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