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July 2016RECYCLE
No. 111 NETWORKwww:jara.co.jp

Vol. 111 JULY 2016

Chairman Satoshi Takahashi, center, andhonorary advisors, Shigeru Tenmyo, left, andTaku Oshima, right.

NPO-JARA announces new
executive team
Takahashi takes post ofchairman
Non-profit organization JARA held its 12th
general meeting on May 26 in Tokyo and Satoshi
Takahashi became the new chairman of thegroup. Although it was not the normal time forelecting, “Let us go forward with a new executive
team, as the business environment of therecycling industry is becoming severe,” said
Managing Director Sosho Kitajima. Former
Chairman Shigeru Tenmyo and former Vice
Chairman Taku Oshima left their posts and willserve as honorary advisors.
At the general meeting, the group’s businessactivities and financial report for fiscal 2015 wereapproved, along with business and financial plansfor FY2016. Reported at the meeting was thewinning of the “Energy Globe Award” in June2015 and the holding of the Asian Automotive
Environmental Forum (AAEF) in Akita last
October.
Business plans for this fiscal year include: 1)
researching and studying of used vehicle exports,
2) conducting activities for reducing CO2emissions, 3) holding seminars for automotive

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recyclers, and 4) tightening relationships with therecyclers around the world. For the first item,
NPO-JARA will keep in touch with relatedorganizations and carry out research, while for thesecond item, it will undertake educational
activities and hold seminars. For the third item, itplans to host a seminar focusing on recyclers inlate August, while, for the fourth item, it aims totighten relationships with its counterparts invarious countries through the AAEF to take placein Australia this autumn. It will also assist
recyclers who are entering overseas markets.
(Daily Automotive News, June 2 issue)

JAERA reshuffles
executive team
The Japan ELV Recycler’s Association(JAERA) held its 9th general meeting on June 9in Tokyo. After the selection of officers due to theexpiration of the terms of office, Yasuo Sakai wasnamed president of the nationwide association.
Tsuyoshi Ishigami, Norio Nagata, Masayuki
Kiuchi, and Takefumi Nomura each became avice president. Under the new executive team,
JAERA will strive to further activate theorganization and the industry’s development.
Former president Nishio Kawamura will serve as
an advisor.
President Sakai expressed his eagerness bysaying, “Upon being appointed president, I felt
heavy responsibility in these hard times. I need tofacilitate block-based activities and make JAERA
more powerful, so that it can help member
companies’ have sound management.”
At the general meeting, the group’s businessactivities and financial report for fiscal 2015 wereapproved, along with business and financial plansfor FY2016.
In the business plans for FY2016, it will
establish the “Japan Automotive Recycling
Institute,” which is expected to conduct research

CO2 Reduction Effect(based on Super-Line System)

The use of Reuse Parts saved

3,185 tons of CO2 emissionsin May 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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on recycling technologies, and certify automotive
recycling technicians and issue certificates forlabeling and others activities. It is expected to beincorporated in around July or August.
To improve and expand the certified autorecycling technician system, good examples of
dismantling operations will be covered in
JAERA’s training course, thereby creating
understanding among trainees. The course’scurriculum will also be reviewed in order toreduce the burden of trainees.
JAERA will also continue to take part indeveloping Japanese Industrial Standards (JIS)for “labeling standards” for automotive
replacement parts as part of its efforts to activate
the recycling industry with a long-term vision.
The “reuse sub-group” will continue to workwith JIS development. In this fiscal year, it will
prepare a draft by setting items forstandardization of recycled parts, including
information structure, items needed fordescription, description forms, etc. The “truckand bus sub-group” will host factory tours to
dismantling facilities for conversion parts. The“recycling technology sub-group” plans to carryout certified auto-recycling technician workshops
for targeting new trainees. The “resourcerecycling sub-group” will continue to work withjoint shipment of precious metals amongmembers, as well as on preparation for joint
shipment of bumpers and other plastics materials.

JAPAN AUTOMOBILE RECYCLE NETWORK NEWS No.101 JULY 2016 < 2 >Kanamori Shokai Co.

JARA members topics in focus•New restroom for guests and female
employees•Raising employee satisfaction andquality of services
Kanamori Shokai Co., located in Kasamatsu-cho,
Gifu Prefecture, is actively involved in staff training,
especially for female staff members. In April, thecompany hired high school female graduates for its
front desk. It was the first time for the company toemploy female worker directly out of high school. At
the same time, the company spent 3 million yen on
its new restroom for guests and female employees aspart of its efforts to build a better workplace for bothmale and female employees. By raising employee
satisfaction (ES), Kanamori Shokai focuses on
fostering “professionals” among both production
and front desk employees, who are capable ofproviding high-quality services to help the company
differentiates itself from others.
The company runs a relatively small businesswith 10 employees and handles 40-50 ELVs forrecycling per month. It specializes in parts sales,
while it also handles scrap steel sales on a very lowscale. The company posted record-high sales for theprevious year. Executives of other recyclers often
visit the small-scale Kanamori Shokai to learn thesecrets of its success and why it is strong in hardtimes.
Most of its customers are neighboring car
dealers. The company consistently insists on quality.
President Kougen Kanamori said, “You cannot
sell parts for which there is no clear objective forhaving. Our policy is to sell the parts that customers
use with peace of mind and that make them happy.
That’s all there is to it.” Kanamori had once

Environment ministry urges
carmakers to use more reuse plastics
Providing incentives for vehicles that use
high volume of reuse materials
The Ministry of Environment is urging carmakers
to use more reuse plastics. It will provide preferential
treatment for new “Eco Premium Cars” (tentativename) that use high volume of reuse materials. Theninistry estimates that when the use rate of reusematerials of a car is be raised from the current 1.5
percent to 5 percent, the annual reuse amount ofpolypropylene (PP) is expected to increase from thecurrent 15,000 tons to a maximum of 180,000 tons.
Although issues will remain regarding recycling costs
and performance, the ministry aims to ask carmakers
to expand the use of such materials, thereby reducing

Although small, Kanamori Shokai is acompany that is needed in the local communityof which female employees are capable, but that nomale employees can imitate. To provide a better work
environment, it built a new restroom exclusively forfemale employees and guests, in which the toilet seats
and interior design were created based on advice andideas given by the female employees. “As our female
employees had felt inconvenience until then, I letthem create the restroom the way they wanted,” said
Kanamori. “Actually, I was surprised at the cost. But it
was a good thing to do.”Kanamori recognizes the downside to his approachand said, “When you want to foster true professionals,
the company’s growth slows until they mature.”
Nevertheless, he does not intend to change his focus
on staff training. “Given the size of our company, wemight have too many employees. But young people
are the potential that will powers the company for
years to come. They might help the company growin a direction that we did not anticipate.” About theindustry’s many negative topics, he said, “You can’thelp it. The only thing we can do is help create a bright
future by ourselves.” (Daily Automotive News, June 9issue)

worked as a mechanic at a car dealer in Gifu , but
went independent to set up his own company. His
background allows the company to produces parts
that better meet customers’ needs and to understandcar dealers well.
Staff training is a key to securing quality at
Kanamori Shokai, where the president has long
took the lead in giving instructions regarding
production know-how, even if it stops the work that
his employees are doing. “In coming years, only
two, the true professional and amateur, can survive.
Incomplete professional are no longer needed,”
Kanamori said. In order to let his employees acquire
broad-range yet deep knowledge, eveyr few years
he implements a work rotation and has the front
staff members and production employees switch
jobs. This allow them to deepen knowledge about
the other side of the business, resulting in quick andflexible actions for customers.
The company has recently been promoting
the use of female front desk staff members. Fourof the 10 employees are female. The company
aims to make a full use of meticulous responses

Restroom fitted with a wide vanity for
comfortably adjusting makeup, right. Female
employees chose everything, including even what
towels to use, left.

automobile shredder residue (ASR) and helping tobuild a recycling-oriented society.
Currently, the average passenger car contains
approximately 150 kilograms of various plastics.
Approximately 320,000 tons of used plastics areproduced from such cars every year as a whole, theministry said. Of the total, 220,000 tons, or nearly
70 percent, are processed as ASRs. Only 2,000 tons
are collected as materials for reuse in Japan. The
remainder is sent overseas. As a result, the amount ofreuse PPs from vehicles is limited to approximately
15,000 tons annually.
The ministry estimates that if new vehicles suchas the Nissan Leaf and the Toyota Sai, in whichreuse plastics account for approximately 20 percentof the plastics used, expand to five percent of thenew car market, the use of reuse plastics wouldincrease from the current 15,000 tons to 22,000tons. Furthermore, if the combined share of the abovementioned advanced models and vehicles with a 5percent use rate of reuse plastics would reach 50
percent of the market, the use of reuse plastics would
increase by 1,000 tons. On the other hand, if the use
rate were to be 20 percent in all new vehicles, the useof reuse plastics would increase to 181,000 tons, orabout 12 times the amount that is currently used.
However, retrieving reuse plastics from usedmaterials is costly. A resource recycler pointed out,
“Recycling of materials made from vehicles forreuse in vehicles, or so-called ‘horizontal recycling’is difficult because of changes in materials used incars and aging degradation.” The ministry intends tocontinue supporting the development of easy-to-reusematerials and design, as well as of advanced recycling
technology, thereby promoting the use of reuseplastics. (Daily Automotive News, June 6 issue)

Reuse plastics account for 20 percent of the plastics used in
the Nissan Leaf

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JAPAN AUTOMOBILE RECYCLE NETWORK NEWS No.101 JULY 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.
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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 발상은KOBELCO에서1979년 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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