July 22, 2021
A newly developed technology that will âpaveâ the way to sustainability has been adopted by Iwata City, a growing city in Japan.
Kao Specialties Americas, a US subsidiary of Tokyo-based Kao Corporation, has developed technology that incorporates recycled PET and makes asphalt ânearly five times more durable than traditional asphaltâ in the paving industry. Iwata City officials have now selected the additive â called NEWTLAC 5000 â to repair the cityâs roads.
Japan-based pharmacy chain, Welcia, has also used the additive to pave its parking lot (car park).
According to Kao, a 1,000sqm surface area with NEWTLAC reuses approximately 15,000 discarded PET bottles.
Hamamatsu Photonics to construct new factory building at its Toyooka factory site, Japan
Date Announced: 18 May 2021
To boost production capacity of its electron tube products.
The groundbreaking ceremony for this new factory building will be held on 19 May 2021.
Hamamatsu City, Japan Hamamatsu Photonics will construct a new factory Building, No. 11, at its Toyooka factory site (Shimokanzo, Iwata City, Japan) to handle the increase in sales of Microfocus X-ray sources (MFX) and other electron tube products. The groundbreaking ceremony for the new factory building will be held on Wednesday 19 May 2021, and is scheduled to be completed in January 2023.
At Hamamatsu Photonics we manufacture and sell highly advanced electron tube products such as photomultiplier tubes, imaging devices and light sources for a broad range of fields and applications including medicine, industry, analysis, measurement, and academic research.
Brazilian suspected of trafficking marijuana Shizuoka Prefectural Police have arrested four persons, including a Brazilian national, who are suspected members of a marijuana trafficking ring, reports Fuji News Network.
On March 1, Araki Diego Miyano, 25, and three others allegedly possessed 272 grams of marijuana valued at 1.6 million yen with intent to sell at a residence in Iwata City.
Police did not reveal whether the suspects admit to the allegations.
Police entered the residence during an investigation into another case involving the sale of 20 grams of marijuana for 100,000 yen last May.
Shizuoka police seized 272 grams of marijuana from a residence in Iwata City on March 1 (Twitter)
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RAS salmon has a head start, but land-based farming may prove to be key to the country’s shrimp supply
IMTE’s shrimp production plant in Myoko City, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. Courtesy photo.
Japan, a nation with a traditionally high seafood consumption rates, sees land-based aquaculture as a way to secure supplies of popular fish species – including shrimp – in an environmentally friendly manner. Now, some unexpected Japanese firms are entering recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) production, continuing a countrywide trend.
Last October, Kansai Electric Power (KEPCO) announced