Aiming for the realization of a recycling-oriented society, the company is working to reduce waste based on the concept of the 3Rs (reduce, reuse, recycle).
Example Initiatives
Recycling of Waste Plastic
Recycling of Tubeless Valve Scrap Rubber
Material recycling of plastic waste
Our Wakayanagi Plant has implemented material recycling*1 of plastic waste, reducing the annual waste volume by 55 tons. To reduce waste, we will promote efforts to recycle of valuable materials such as waste plastic from resin, SBR rubber*2, and urethane.
*1 Material recycling: Reuse of waste as raw material for new products
*2 SBR rubber: Styrene-butadiene rubber, a synthetic rubber with properties similar to natural rubber
Reduction of urethane plastic waste by system modifying
Every time Kita Ogaki Plant’s urethane plastic injectors were shut down, we used to discard and dispose of the materials to prevent the main agent reacting with the curing agent and being cured.
The system has now been modified so that upon shutdown the equipment’s stop signal is automatically read and urethane plastic is automatically injected without being cured. This has resulted in a 39% reduction in the amount of discarded material that becomes waste.
