From Kansai to East Asia
Initiatives to Promote B2B Partnerships inEnvironmental and Energy-saving Technologies
Report on the Activities of the Kansai-Asia
Environmental and Energy Saving Business
Promotion Forum (Team E-Kansai)

February 2015
Global Environment Centre Foundation (GEC)
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Overview of the Global Environment Centre Foundation (GEC)
Programs:(1) Supporting the activities of the United Nation
Environment Programme (UNEP) International
Environmental Technology Centre (IETC)(2) Offering technical cooperation and other assistance todeveloping nations in the areas of environmental
conservation and measures to address global warming
Date of founding: January 28, 1992
Responsible ministries: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministryof the Environment
Locations
Headquarters: Ryokuchikoen, Tsurumi-ku, Osaka
Tokyo Office: Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo

Principal GEC programs
UNEP IETC projects
City-to-City Cooperation Projects for developing Low-Carbon societies in Asia
Projects promoting business exchanges with developing nations in the areas of environmental andenergy-saving technologies
Secretariat for the JCM Feasibility Study Programme and the JCM Financing Programme under thecommission of the Ministry of the Environment, Japan2 etc.
JICA training in environment-related fields,

Report on the Activities of the Kansai-Asia
Environmental and Energy Saving Business
Promotion Forum (Team E-Kansai)3What Is Team E-Kansai?
 Team E-Kansai consists of about 150 companies andorganizations that possess exceptional environmental and/or
energy-saving technologies and wish to develop theirbusinesses in Asia (including companies outside the Kansai
region).
 Member companies and organizations possess a variety ofsophisticated technologies in fields such as water treatment,
waste treatment and disposal, prevention of air pollution, andenergy conservation.
 Team E-Kansai combines technologies from member
companies to offer optimal solutions for issues indeveloping nations.
 The secretariat and local coordinators work
together to support forum activities.
 A total of 29 public organizations support
these activities, including JETRO, JICA,
and local governments.

Kansai region
Osaka Prefecture, Kyoto Prefecture,
Hyogo Prefecture, Nara Prefecture,
Shiga Prefecture, Wakayama
Prefecture, and Fukui Prefecture

4History of Solving Environmental and Energy-saving Issues andEnvironmental Technologies in Japan and the Kansai Region
Economic development and industrialization led to serious environmental problems
such as water and air pollution and waste disposal challenges.

1960s

Water pollution

Air pollution

Waste

Environmental problems have been overcome as experience and technology are accumulated
through partnerships between government and the private sector.

Today

Energyconservation

1970s: Two oil crises(1973, 1978)
Development ofadditional energysaving technologies

Aggressive development ofenergy-saving technologies
Realization of one of the world’s
most energy-efficient industrial
structures

Climate change
5Makeup of Team E-Kansai
Kansai-Asia Environmental and Energy
Saving Business Promotion Forum(Team E-Kansai)
Founded: November 2008
Chairman: Minoru Furukawa(Chairman and CEO, Hitachi Zosen
Corporation)
Deputy chairman companies: Kubota
Corporation; Kobelco Eco-Solutions Co.,
Ltd.; Rematec Holdings Corporation
Number of member companies andorganizations: About 150 (as of January
2015)
Secretariat
Kansai Bureau of Economy,
Trade and Industry
Global Environment Centre
Foundation (GEC)

Supporting/cooperative
organizations (29)Overseas development support organizations
JETRO, NEDO, HIDA, JICA, Organization for
Small & Medium Enterprises and Regional
Innovation, JBIC, NEXI, PREX, Japan-China
Economic Relations and Trade Centre, JapanChina Economic Association
Regional economic groups and relatedorganizations
Kansai Economic Federation; Osaka Chamber ofCommerce and Industry; Global Environment
Forum Kansai; The Japan Society of Industrial
Machinery Manufacturers; The Energy
Conservation Center, Japan; Sakai International
Business Council; Wakayama Industry Promotion
Foundation; APEC Virtual Center for
Environmental Technology Exchange; Hyogo
Environmental Advancement Association
Local governments and other organizations
Osaka Prefectural Government, Osaka City
Government, Osaka Water & Environment
Solutions Associations, Kyoto Prefectural
Government, Wakayama Prefectural Government,
Shiga Prefectural Government, Shiga Water
Environment Business Promotion Forum, Kobe
City Government
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Principal Technologies of Team E-Kansai Member
Companies
Member companies possess a wide variety of technologies in areas ranging fromwater treatment to waste treatment, disposal, and recycling and energy.

Environmental
engineering,consulting,design, andconstruction: 6

Renewableenergy: 1

Energyefficiency: 8

Other: 4

Otherenvironmental
equipment: 2
Environmental
measurement,
analysis, andmonitoring: 2

Waste
treatment,
disposal, andrecycling: 3
Remediation ofsoil pollution: 2

Otherwaterrelated: 8

Watertreatment: 87

Septictanks: 8

Industrial
wastewater:
26

Water
supply andwaterworks:
20

Sewage:25
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Providing Solutions to Address Environmental Issues
Team E-Kansai has built a network of companies in an effort to meet the full range of environmental
needs by providing systematic solutions that combine multiple technologies in an optimal manner.

Wastewater issues

Waste issues

Air pollution

Wastewater treatment

Waste treatment and disposal

Preventive measures•Filtration
technologies•Production of ultrapure water•Measurement ofwater quality•Remote monitoring
systems•Excess sludge
treatment•Filter press
dewatering•Cement raw
material/fuel production•Particulate mattermonitoring•Exhaust gas
prevention systems•Slag modification•Melting furnaces•Incinerators•RPF and RDF
production•Methane recovery
systems•Dioxin heatdecomposition•Detoxification
processing•Cleaning systems•Concentration
measurement

Advanced technologies by Kansai companies 8

Team E-Kansai Activities
Matching assistance,

Priority regions: Thailand, Vietnam, China (Liaoning Province andGuangdong Province)
In the future, we are planning to add Indonesia and the surrounding area.

By sending and receiving delegations,participating in exhibitions, holding
business matching meetings, etc.

Exclusive
coordinators are
assigned to eachregion.

Development of aframework for
promoting business
partnerships, forexample through
MOUs

Assistance for developing
projects based on system
proposals

Development of anadvance success model

Kansai Bureau of
Economy, Tradeand Industry

G-to-G

Local
government
agencies

Team EKansaiPartners
hips

Local industry
organizations

Individualcompanies

B-to-B

Individualcompanies

Development of networks
to facilitate sustained,
autonomous business
partnerships

Improvement of the local
business environment
9Developing Collaborative Structures to Facilitate Sustained
Businesses with Partner Countries
Collaborative structures linking
Thailand and the Kansai region
Kansai Bureau
of Economy,
Trade andIndustry

Writtenagreement(June 7,2012)

Local governmental
agencies
・Ministry of Industry
Department ofIndustrial Works(DIW), etc.

Team
E-Kansai

Local industry
organizations
・Federation of Thai
Industries (FTI), etc.

Individualcompanies

Individualcompanies

Business
partnerships

Collaborative structures linking Liaoning
Province and the Kansai region
Kansai Bureau
of Economy,
Trade andIndustry

Writtenagreement
July 5, 2012

Team
E-Kansai

Individualcompanies

Local governmental
agencies
・Liaoning Province
Environmental
Protection
Bureau, etc.
Local industrialorganizations
・Liaoning Provincial
Environmental
Protective Industrial
Association, etc.

Business
partnerships

Similar frameworks are being developed in Vietnam and in the Nanhai
district of the city of Foshan in Guangdong Province, China.

Individualcompanies

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Sending Delegations to Asia, Holding Seminars, andParticipating in Overseas Exhibitions
Major recent activities
Team E-Kansai Participating in“Viet Water 2014”(November 2014)

Holding the“Shanghai-Osaka Energy
Saving Technology Seminar”
in Shanghai (October 2014)• To support Japanese companies
participating in Viet Water 2014, Team EKansai joined the Osaka Chamber ofCommerce and Industry and Shiga
Prefecture in staffing a joint booth.
•Team
M6 E-Kansai facilitated a technologicalpresentation by 25 Japanese companies
during the event (which attracted 300
participants).

• Team E-Kansai co-hosted an energy
Saving Technology seminar with
Osaka Prefecture’s Shanghai Office.
• At the event, four Japanese companies
joined four Chinese companies inintroducing energy-saving initiatives.
(The event attracted about 100
participants from Japan and China.)

Sending a delegation to the
Nanhai district of the city ofFoshan in Guangdong Province(March 2014)• Team E-Kansai sent a delegation of 23 people
from 9 member companies and 2 support
organizations to Foshan, China, and held aseries of business matching sessions in thearea.
• The Kansai Bureau of Economy, Trade andIndustry joined the Nanhai district government,
Team E-Kansai, and the local environmental
protective industrial association in entering
into a written agreement.
• Team E-Kansai co-hosted a Guangdong
Province energy-saving seminar in the city ofGuangzhou with the Japan-China Economic
Association.

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Developing Networks Linking Members(Hosting a Networking Cafe)
Environmental issues and energy conservation as cross-industry concerns:
Assisting in the developing of networks linking members
Networking Caféin Osaka(July 2014)

Networking Caféin Ho Chi Minh City
(November 2014)

Team E-Kansai invited its coordinators for
Liaoning Province and Guangdong
Province, China to participate in an
exchange of views with other participants
and introduce market conditions and needs
in China at an event entitled “The Future of
the Energy Conservation andEnvironmental Business in China.”

Team E-Kansai hosted a networking
event with representatives of JICA
Vietnam and the HCMC officials serving
as speakers. A total of 70 people fromcompanies that had exhibit or vist in the
VietWater exhibition and local Japaneseowned companies in Viet Nam joined in
the event.

Networking Café
In Shanghai(October 2014)

A total of 21 people including
representatives of local offices of Japaneseentities attended this networking event,where they exchanged views on thestrengthening of environmental regulationsin China.
Team E-Kansai has also held networking
events for employees working locally in
Shenyang, China, and Bangkok, Thailand.

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Assistance for Developing Projects Based on System
Proposals
Examples of recent approaches
Developing a model for an environmentally friendly industrial parkat the Amata Nakorn Industrial Estate in Thailand
Developing a model program to prevent air pollution by measuring
and controlling VOCs emissions in Guangdong Province, China.
Proposing Vietnam eco-factory models to realize cost-effective
investment for environmental improvements through a
combination of investment in plant and equipment and activities
in environmental improvement.
Undertaking a clean production and energy-saving improvement
project in the aluminum industry in Guangdong Province, China
Delivering and conducting operational trials of a high-efficiency,
energy-saving aeration system at a large-scale sewage treatment
plant in Guangdong Province, China
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Developing a Model for an Environmentally Friendly Industrial Park at the Amata
Nakorn Industrial Estate in Thailand
Issues in Thailand
1. Emergence of pollution as a problem in local communities, for example due to illegal dumping of waste
2. Initiatives to promote the 3Rs and recycling of waste (use of waste as a raw material in the cement industry, etc.)
3. Energy conservation and effective use of energy in industrial parks, etc.

2009
Baseline investigation
prior to the cooperative
development of an ecotown (fiscal 2009)2013
Selection of the Amata Nakorn Industrial Estate,
Thailand’s largest industrial park

Written agreement on cooperation among the Ministryof Industry’s Department of Industrial Works, Amata,and the Kansai Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry(September 2010)
Feasibility study targeting thedevelopment of a model for anenvironmentally friendly industrial
park at the Amata Nakorn
Industrial Estate (fiscal 2010)

Written agreement on further cooperation among the Ministry of Industry’s Department
of Industrial Works, the Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand, Amata, the Kansai
Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry, and Team E-Kansai with the goal ofdeveloping one-stop service (June 2012)

Research project addressing
the efficient use of waste at
cement plants(February 27 to March 6, 2012)

Project dispatching experts
for human resources
development to facilitate onestop service

Pilot plant project to conduct
a trial of technologies forusing waste effectively at
cement plants(April 17 to May 11, 2012)(July 2012 to May 2013)

Training project to facilitate
the enhancement of optimal
management of industrial
waste and promote recycling(February 12 to 25, 2014)

The parties agreed to the following at a joint meeting (chaired by the
director of the Ministry of Industry’s Department of Industrial Works):(1) To promote additional methods for using waste effectively at
cement plants(2) On the need for one-stop service in order to promote realization of alow-carbon society, the 3Rs, and a “zero landfill waste” policy

Expansion of use
of waste at cement
plants in Thailand

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Developing a Model Program for Measures to Prevent Air Pollution in
Guangdong Province, China, (by Limiting VOC Emissions)
Member companies have formed a joint venture with local companies in the Southern China Cluster of State
Environment Service Industry (in Foshan’s Nanhai district) in order to pursue goals such as building a monitoring
network to limit VOC emissions and implementing an activated carbon recycling business. Going forward, the joint
venture plans to work with the local government to prepare for a demonstration of the model and implementation of
associated regulations in the city.
Kansai Bureau of Economy,
Trade and Industry

Written agreement oncooperation and resulting
partnership

Government of the Nanhai district,Foshan City, Guangdong Province

Environmental Protection Bureau

Businesses emitting VOCs
(furniture plants, etc.)

Transmission of data

Joint venture formed by
Team E-Kansai companies
and local companies

VOC emissions data

Continuous
measurement
Online monitoring

VOC recovery
Activated carbon adsorption process

Activated carbon recycling andsolvent recovery processProposing a Vietnam Eco-factory Model(To realize waste-free environmental capital investment through a combination of environmental capital
investment and environmental improvement activities)
Kansai Bureau of Economy,
Trade and Industry

Partnership(Written agreementon cooperation)

Vietnam Ministry of Industry and Trade
Vietnam Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment

Assistance

AssistancePartnership

Team E-Kansai(Entering into
an MOU)(VBA [beer and beverages],
VINATEX [sewn products and textiles], VINAPACO [paper and pulp])(Vietnam Systems and Solutions Group)

Package assistance(1) Provision of optimal
environmental facilities andequipment that meet
Vietnamese needs andassistance in improving theiroperational capacity (OJT)(2) Provision of facilities andequipment for making
energy-saving improvements(3) Assistance in improving
production processes (bydispatching experts)(4) Assistance in improving
environmental management
capacity (by training corepersonnel)

Group of state-operated
companies in Vietnam

Vietnam Eco-factory Model
Environmental
capital investment

Environmental
improvement activities

Wastewater
treatment

Dramatic cost
reductions

Establishing environmental targets aspart of companies’ medium- and longterm business strategies

Carrying out environmental capital
investment and environmental
improvement activities

Dramatic cost reductions

Water
treatment
Waste
treatment anddisposal

Environmental
investment

Production process
improvements
Productivity improvements
such as reduced defect rates

Etc.

Increased
environmental
management capacity Etc.

Allocating profit from environmental
improvement activities toenvironmental capital investment

Implementing waste-freeenvironmental capital investment

Environmental
budgetWorking to popularize and expand thisapproach in the group as a successmodel for cost-effective environmental
investment

Increasing corporate groupvalue and profits as Vietnam’s
first environmentally friendly
groupUndertaking a Clean Production and Energy-saving Improvement Projectin the Aluminum Industry in Guangdong Province, China
Team E-Kansai carried out an energy-saving diagnostics project by dispatching experts to aluminum casting
plants chosen by the local government, and proposed improvements in energy conservation and production
processes through partnerships between companies in the Kansai region and Japanese-owned companies in
China. Going forward, participating companies plan to install the resulting system at model plants as part of atrial.
Developing model clean production plants

Kansai Bureau of Economy,
Trade and Industry

Cooperation andpartnership

Team E-Kansai
Companies involved with energy
conservation(1) Carrying out energy-saving
diagnostics

Government of the Nanhai district,Foshan City, Guangdong Province

Local companies, model plants, etc.
(Recommended and chosen
by the local government)(2) Identifying issues and needs

Company

Company

Company

Company

Company(4) Proposing improvement
measures, technologies, andsolutions(3) Developing solutions for local issues
Studying the technologies, products, Partnershipand solutions that best meet local needs

Local environmental
companies
Coordinators(5) Introducing technologies for clean production, etc.
Recommending steps such as installation of new
equipment, including through the utilization of
government assistance (financial incentives, tax
exemptions, etc.) to make energy-saving
improvements, lower costs, etc.

• The project has made proposals that are uniquely suited to the local government’s need to improve clean production.
• Team E-Kansai plans to expand the project from areas such as the city of Foshan and Guangdong Province to regions
throughout China.

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Delivering and Conducting Operational Trials of an Aeration
System at a Large-scale Sewage Treatment Plant
Working with a large environmental engineering company with customers and contacts such as large-scale
sewage treatment plants in Guangdong Province, China, Team E-Kansai delivered and conducted
operational trials of a high-efficiency, energy-saving aeration system at a sewage treatment plant in the cityof Foshan, which served as a test site.

Chinese environmental
engineering company

Shishan Sewage
Treatment Plant

Guanyao Sewage
Treatment Plant

Jiujiang Sewage
Treatment Plant

Dali Sewage
Treatment Plant

Luocun Sewage
Treatment Plant

Southeast Sewage
Treatment Plant

Pingzhou Sewage
Treatment Plant

Japanesecompanies

The Chinese environmental engineering company chose a site from its customers’ wastewater
treatment plants and sewage treatment plants, and the project installed an aeration system.
Initial stage: Small-scale installation experiment; second stage: medium-scale installation; third stage:across-the-board changes planned18

Providing Information to Member Companies and Overseas
Partners
Team E-Kansai provides useful information for member companies’ overseas businesses Team E-Kansai website
 Free email newsletter (twice monthly with occasional extra editions) Seminars and separate study groups
Team E-Kansai also provides information to overseas partners about technologies andproducts available from member companies.
 Technical information sheets and pamphlets (in English and local languages)
 English-language website

http://team-e-kansai.jp/19For more information about Team E-Kansai
Kansai Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry(International Business Division, International Affairs Department)
1-5-44 Otemae, Chuo-ku, Osaka 540-8535
Phone: 06-6966-6051
E-mail: kin-teamekansai@meti.go.jp
Global Environment Centre Foundation(International Cooperation Division)
2-110 Ryokuchikoen, Tsurumi-ku, Osaka 538-0036
Phone: 06-6915-4126
E-mail: gec-teamekansai@gec.jp

Website: http://team-e-kansai.jp/en/
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