Incorporated Non-Profit Organization

Activities of the Liaison Center for

Creation of Industry & Environment
Aiming to vitalize the industry and create environment &energy in the coastal areas through industry-academiapublic-private partnerships

Hiroshi Takita, Executive Director
Non-Profit Organization

Liaison Center for Creation of Industry & Environment

0Liaison Center for Creation of Industry & Environment
Purpose of the Establishment

To serve as a platform for collaboration between industry, academia and public
sectors and the citizens to promote activities that contribute to promoteindustry and solve environmental/energy-related problems toward therealization of a sustainable society living in harmony between economic
growth and the environment
Main activities

Established: August 2, 2004
★Established by the participation of 13 companies
including those operating in Kawasaki Coastal Area
to build a platform for industry-government-citizen partnershipGood cycle between
industry and environment
Board members (as of Jan. 2013)■Development of a Smart Industrial Complex in Kawaski
Coastal Area through collaboration with Kawasaki City

Chair: Yoshihiro Adachi (Prof. at Tokyo University of Technology)
1. Further advancement of Kawasaki Eco-Town
・ Promote recycling of resources by incorporating recycling
activities into existing manufacturing businesses
2. Efforts to fight global warming
・ Facilitate effective energy utilization through collaboration among companies
・ Advance the use of renewable energy through mega solar plants, etc.

■Reinforcement of the role as an energy supply base andmaking proposals to the national government
・ Total output of power plants located in Kawasaki Coastal Area:
5.5 million kW(Thermal, biomass, large-scale solar, wind, and other power plants)■Activities to promote exchange between businesses andcitizens or with other coastal industrial complexes
・ Visualizing environmental efforts made by businesses operating in
Kawasaki Coastal Area
Visiting lectures on the environment for elementary schools
Plant tours and exchange events for Kawasaki citizens
Symposium on Collaboration among Cities with Coastal Industrial Complex, etc.

■Improving the local environment of coastal areas

Executive director (1), board members (8), auditor (1)Member organizations(19 organizations as of Jan. 2013)

Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corporation

DC Co., Ltd.

Ajinomoto Co., Inc.

Toa Corporation

JFE Urban Recycle Corporation

Toa Oil Co., Ltd.

JFE Engineering Corporation

Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd.

JFE Kankyo Corporation

Tokyo Electric Power Co.

JFE Steel Corporation

Tonen General Sekiyu K.K.

JFE Techno-Research Corporation

Nisshin Seifun Group Inc.

JFE Plastic Resource Corporation

Hamagin Research Institute, Ltd

JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation

Fuji Electric Co., Ltd.

Showa Denko K.K.

・ Mitigating traffic congestion, cleaning up and foresting initiatives
・ Disaster prevention and safety enhancement1Characteristics and main industries of Kawasaki Coastal Area
☆One of the major industrial zones of Japan (100 years’ history in monozukuri)☆ Promoting ‘monozukuri in harmony with the environment’ under
the Kawaski Eco-Town Initiative■Chemicals■Oil refinery /petrochemical■Cement■Machinery■Steel■Electronics■Power / Gas■Food■Recycle etc.
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Kawasaki Coastal Area (air photo)3

Emergence of pollution problems and efforts to overcome
・Rapid economic growth and development ⇒ Pollution ⇒ Overcoming environmental problems
・ Kawasaki City Ordinance for Pollution Prevention based on a unique system (1972); Japan’s firstmunicipal ordinance on Environmental Assessment (1976)
・ Development of environmental and energy-saving technologies proceeds

Coastal Area during the high-growth period(around 1970)

Coastal Area of today4

Industry-academia-public-private network mediated by the Liaison
CenterBusinesses operatingin the Keihin Coastal Area

Government(Kawasaki City,Kanagawa Prefecture, etc.)

Industrial complexzones
across Japan(Chiba, Kashima,Yokkaichi,Mizushima, Kitakyushu,etc.)

NPO Liaison Center for
Creation of Industry &Environment

Citizens

Universities andresearch institutions

Non-profit
organizations

・Liaison Promotion Council for Revitalization of Kawasaki Coastal Area, policy round table meetings and regular information exchange meetings
with Kawasaki City・Business-government meetings on road development in Kawasaki Coastal Area
・Liaison Conference for collaboration with the environmental industry toward a recycling society
・ Kawasaki Conference for the Promotion of Measures against Global Warming (CC Kawasaki), Kawasaki Compact, Kawasaki Coastal Area
Disaster Prevention Council
・Conference on Advancing Industrial Complexes of the Keihin Coastal Area
・Plant visit tours for parents and children, visiting lectures for elementary schools, Environment-Industry Interaction Lounge
・ Symposium on Collaboration among Cities with Coastal Industrial Complex, Symposium on Revitalization of the Keihin Coastal Area, etc.

5Development of a smart industrial complex
in partnership with Kawasaki City (Case 1)
Further advancement of Kawasaki Eco-Town■Promote recycling of resources by incorporating recycling activities into existing
manufacturing businesses
Kawasaki Eco-Town
Recycling of various circulative resources for use as raw material
Used resources
MetalsKawasaki Coastal Area

Steel

Copper/Aluminum

Electric appliances

Plastics

Plastic
boardsPET bottles

PET bottles

Used paper

Ammonia

Sewage sludge
into various products
Construction sludge

CementToilet rolls

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Development of a smart industrial complex
in partnership with Kawasaki City (Case 2)
Efforts to fight global warming■ Effective energy utilization through collaboration among companies■ Utilization of renewable energy

Kawasaki Steam Net
Supply of steam from TEPCO thermal power plant to 10 other factories in the vicinity

Steam supply: 300 thousand tons/year
CO2 reduction: approx. 25000 tons/year

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Reinforcement of the role as an energy supply base andmaking proposals to the national government■ Research for informing regional energy policy■ Energy-saving seminars through government-citizen collaboration
Power plants located in Kawasaki Coastal Area: 5.5 million kW

Major power plants

One of the largest mega-solar plants in Japan

Output (10 thousand kW)
Kawasaki Thermal Power Station
Higashi Ohgishima Thermal Power StationThermal

Kawasaki Natural Gas Power Plant
Showa Denko Thermal Power Plant
GENEX Mizue Power Plant

Ukishima Solar Power Plant

Kawasaki Clean Power Station
Kawasaki Biomass Power Plant

Biomass,
solar,wind, etc.

Ohgishima Wind Power Plant
Ohgishima Solar Power Plant
Ukishima Solar Power Plant
Waste Power Generation facility, Ukishima Waste
Treatment Center

Ohgishima Solar Power Plant

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Activities to promote exchange between businesses andcitizens or with other coastal industrial complexes■Visiting lectures on the environment for elementary schools
Plant tours and exchange events for Kawasaki citizens■Symposium on Collaboration among Cities with Coastal Industrial Complex, etc.

Visiting lecture (Kawasaki Municipal Tajima Elementary School )Symposium on Collaboration among Cities with Coastal Industrial Complex 20129

Study Visits from Overseas to Kawasaki Coastal Area
Recycling activities of Kawasaki are attracting attention from the world
Number of foreign visitors (FY2009)
RegionCountryCity

China

Shenyang,Pudong New Area Shanghai,Yancheng, Hong Kong, etc.

Korea

Pusan, Taegu, etc.

VietnamHo Chi Minh City

Numberof visits

Numberof visitors

Asia

Chinese President Hu Jintaovisits Kawasaki Eco-Town, May
2008

Others (Thailand, etc.)

AfricaLi Changchun, committee
member of Chinese
Communists Party visits
Kawasaki Eco-Town,April 2009

Egypt, Ghana, etc.

Europe/North
America

EU, U.S., etc.

OthersPeru (Latin America) , etc.

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The Roles of NPO Liaison Center for Creation of Industry& Environment
Aiming to build a resource/energy-recycling industrial complex

National
government

Municipal
government

Municipal
government

National
government

Joint Policy

Regulations/ information flow

Contact point for industry-governmentacademia partnership・Place for discussing and exchanging
ideas on measures against global
warming and local vitalization
・Information transmission forvitalization of the coastal area

Implementation

NPO

Industry
CompanyCompany

Company
Company

CompanyCompany

Company

Local
governments

Vitalization of the coastal area
realized through city-industry
partnership

ExpertsCompanyCompany

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