JARA NEWSJapan Automobile Recycle Network News
AUGUST 2016 No. 102

JARA to assist
members using'big data'
JARA Corporation is accelerating its
efforts to assist members by utilizing bigdata. As the first step, the company will start
operations of a new tool that automaticallycalculates the estimated prices of end-of-lifevehicles (ELVs) in August. The tool wasdesigned to provide easy access throughsmartphone and tablet terminals to sales
persons who work with procurement in dailyscene.
Th e n ew to o l w ill b e ad d ed to th e
“Automobile Recycle System (ATRS)”. It
Top menu ofthe estimate
assist tool

Easilyaccessible
fromsmartphone,etc.

has been developed in-house toautomatically calculate estimated prices
based on nationwide data, which is managed
by JARA headquarters, such as orders, sales
performance and inventory turnover. It is
compatible with both terminals of iOS andAndroid.
Simply entering model number of thevehicle in the tool, the user can viewnecessary information, including the average
price for the past six months, retrieval
number, and the number of inventory items.
When searching, the user can selectnecessary part of the vehicle. For example,estimated price can be provided even if
damaged part of the vehicle was excluded.
JARA sees daily parts transactions of
4,000 or more across the country. By using
this real-time information of deals, together
with sales results for the past, JARA
achieved ever faster provision of informationthat helps procurement and price setting ofmembers. The tool calculates not only basedon nationwide data, but also regional andindividual company-based data.
The vehicle price estimate is the first stepof the company’s member assist solutions
using big data. JARA is planning to releasevarious tools in the future. (Daily Automotive
News, July 28 issue)

JARA adds parts
name conversion
function to auction tool
JARA Corporation has improved anauction tool of its “Automobile Recycle

CO2 Reduction Effect(based on Super-Line System)

The use of Reuse Parts saved

3,384 tons of CO2 emissions
in June 2016

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 ResearchInstitute using a life cycle assessment (LCA) technique.

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System (ATRS)”. The new tool will include
parts name conversion function andinventory automatic delete functions which
are used for selling parts on the Yahoo!
auctions. Although new tool is scheduled to
be installed on August 1 this year, existing
tool will also be operational until July 1,2017.
The new tool incorporates conversion
functions of parts name and detailed
information to be activated automaticallywhen they are sold on Yahoo! Auctions. The
automatic conversion is available when theuser previously registers the afterconversion name of the parts. By changing
the parts name to the one being searched on
the Yahoo! Auctions, the parts sales areexpected to increase.
With regard to detailed information of theparts, for example, “A/P” will be converted
to “Aero parts”, The conversion will cover
17 items, including parts category, damage
description, grade, color, and shift.
Delete function of inventory information
will also be added. When the parts are once
exhibited on the Yahoo! Auctions, and thensold through ATRS, the parts will be
automatically deleted from the Yahoo!
Auction. The new tool also provides
changing function of status indication of theparts, such as on sale (exhibited), nowbidding, and sold out. If inconsistent data
are found, for example, the parts are on saleon the Yahoo! Auctions but it is not in
ATRS inventory, the user can identify theparts concerned.
Image display will also be improved toachieve 640x480 pixels for the productimage in the Yahoo! Auctions' informationand image sections. (Daily Automotive News,July 14 issue)

JAPAN AUTOMOBILE RECYCLE NETWORK NEWS No.102 AUGUST 2016 < 2 >MLIT to mandate seatbelt
warning for all passenger cars
Regulations set to go into effectin spring 2017
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure,
Transport and Tourism is going to makeall car users completely fasten seatbelts
by utilizing vehicle technology. Seatbelts
will be required for auxiliary seats of thelarge bus, while all seats of passenger
cars should fit seatbelt warning device incompliance with international standards.
Amid spreading safety technologies suchas automatic braking system, the ministry
aims to strengthen rules related to seatbelts,
as the “most effective safety equipment,”
thereby reducing traffic fatality andinjuries.
Under the current law, mandatory
rule doesn’t apply to auxiliary seats ofthe bus. But the ministry plans to revise
the law in the autumn of this year andmake it mandatory from October 2017for large buses and from October 2019
for microbuses and other buses. For

Resale of usedairbags neverending
The government is thoroughly
tightening distribution of used airbags. In
order to restrict online sales of such items,
the Consumer Affairs Agency (CAA)
began to apply guidelines for the Act on
Specified Commercial Transactions. The
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry(METI) is also considering warning
measures for such items, through tankswith major online site operators. Existing
regulations, however, do not prohibit reuseof used airbags, resulting in endless dealsof such parts through online auction sites.
Although the government will continue topromote restriction measures, however,Airbag parts are traded mostly at online
auctions

seatbelts chosen andfitted by carmakers,
the ministry will
set performancerequirements toensure a certain levelsof safety.
On the other hand,for passenger cars,
seatbelt warning
called “SeatbeltReminder” will berequired for all seats.
New international
Rear seat occupant could be thrown outside the car if thestandards, which isseatbelt is not used.
set to be adopted by
UNECE World Forum for Harmonization
passenger seats, nearly 100 percent. Theof Vehicle Regulations (WP29) inrate, however, for rear seats, declined toNovember 2016, will be introduced to71.3 percent on highways and 35.1 percent
Japan next spring. Compulsory use ofon other local roads.
the device is to go into effect next spring
Vehicle driving without seatbelts couldor later. The ministry will also introduce
make occupants being thrown outside thecompulsory use of it for the driver seats
car and airbags and other safety equipment
and front passenger seats of trucks andcould fail to work well. The ministry willbuses.
facilitate the use of seatbelts and safety
According to the Japan Automobile
device from the technological viewpoint,
Federation, usage rate of seatbelts stoodthereby helping reduce vehicle accident
at 98.4 percent in drivers’ seats and fronthazard. (Daily Automotive News, July 16 issue)
not a few businesses insist, saying: “Rulekeeping is more important than anything,but, to be honest, we want to sell the onethat we can sell. That’s a recycling society(a Hokuriku-based dismantler).”
CAA recently sent a notice to theInternet auction operators that when usedairbags are sold on the auctions, operators
must provide authority with necessary
information such as selling companies.
Despite it has no legal force, the agency
intends to raise awareness of issues forused airbags among sellers.
According to the guideline for sellers ofInternet auctions of the Act on Specified
Commercial Transactions, ‘sellers’
include even individuals. For example,“the seller who exhibits three or more
items of the same automobile parts at atime” should be included in the scope of
the act. Therefore, the seller must display
prescribed information and must not place
exaggerated advertising.
As a warning, the agency asked
Yahoo! regarding five sellers who exhibit
multiple used airbags to disclose necessary
information as the seller.
Used airbags are required for collection
from ELVs and proper processes inaccordance with the Automobile Recycling
Law. The law, however, does not prohibit
reuse of such parts, so people often see thesale of used airbags mostly online. METI,
which regulates the Automobile Recycling
Law, jointly with the Ministry of Land,

Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism andrelated ministries, is working hard to ensure
people know about that the resale of usedairbags taken from ELVs is prohibited. The
ministry, jointly with major online auction
operators, also began to create a scheme forwarning of such parts.
Referring to the above-mentioned efforts,
METI says “Hopefully, it is a peg to makepeople being aware of the issues.” However,a Kanto-based dismantlers admitted, saying;“Scrap steel prices are falling down. If it
sells well, I will sell used airbags.” The
Ministry of Environment pointed out aproblem. “In the first place, why the resaleof used airbags is not allowed? We need todiscuss the issues through.”
Will a recycling society and economic
activities stand side by side? Problems withused airbags are a miniature of the question.
(Daily Automotive News, July 7 issue)

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JAPAN AUTOMOBILE RECYCLE NETWORK NEWS No.102 AUGUST 2016 < 3 >コベルコが提案する新しい考え方
1979年世界初の自動車解体機の発売以来、30年以上にわたって金属リサイクル分野で常にリードし、環境負荷の低減に貢献してきました。
マルチ解体機
使用済み自動車の解体以外にも廃家電などの金属製機器の解体およびさまざまな複合廃棄物の解体・分別作業が可能です。

New ideas comefrom KOBELCO
Since launching the world’s first car-dismantling machine in 1979,KOBELCO has continued to take the lead in the metals recycling industry.
For over 30 years, we have contributed to reducing environmental impact.
Multi-Dismantling Machine

Car-Dismantling Machine

In addition to dismantling end-of-life cars,Multi-Dismantling Machine can break down
various metal products and equipment
such as used household appliances andcan separate and sort various composite
material wastes.

Car-Dismantling Machine efficiently
separates and sorts raw materials in
end-of-life cars and is able to recoverrare earth metals.

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新构想源于神钢
1979年世界第一台汽车拆除机发售以来，
30多年来一直引领金属再生领域，在降低对环境压力方面功不可没。

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새로운 발상은KOBELCO에서
1979년 세계 최초로 자동차 해체기를 출시한 이래,30여 년에 걸쳐 금속 재활용 분야에서 항상 앞장서서환경 부하 저감에 공헌해 왔습니다.

多功能拆除机汽车拆除机멀티 해체기

不仅可以拆除不再使用的汽车，还可以可快速进行报废汽车内素材的分类作业，용도 폐기된 자동차의 해체 외에도 폐가전제품 등 금속제 기기의

拆除废家电等金属制机器以及各种复合

能够回收稀金属资源。

해체 및 다양한 복합 폐기물의 해체 • 분리작업이 가능합니다.

废弃物品的拆除、分类作业。

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