Updated in October 2023
We proactively utilize subsidy programs to develop technologies that lead to ecological and energy-saving solutions.
Making use of the subsidy program for the rationalization of business operators’ energy use by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), we are actively investing in energy saving and CO2 reduction.
Over the course of the last five fiscal years (fiscal 2016 through 2020), Denka has been granted subsidies for ten projects—including projects for the demonstration of advanced technologies—and delivering results in accordance with their respective goals.
Utilizing the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's "Energy Usage Rationalization Business Support Subsidy", we have achieved the expected effects by introducing an electrolysis plant, high-performance lime furnace, and gas turbine power generation at the Omi Plant, and a high-efficiency boiler at the Shibukawa Plant. The gas turbine power generation at the Chiba Plant started operating in 2022.
Using subsidies from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Ministry of the Environment, we promoted energy conservation by switching to LED lighting at the Omi Plant and Chiba Plant.
Proposed and adopted as a consortium together with Kajima Corporation and Takenaka Corporation for the NEDO Green Innovation Fund project "Concrete manufacturing technology development project using CO2".
Based on the technology cultivated in the carbonation admixture "LEAF" in this project, we will develop materials using unused resources such as industrial waste that have not yet been effectively utilized, clarify the mechanism of CO2 fixation, We mainly develop quality control and fixed quantity evaluation methods.
Through this project, we aim to realize carbon-negative concrete and spread it in earnest both in Japan and overseas.
Similarly, the NEDO Stable Supply Support Fund project will promote research and development of new processes for battery materials that do not emit CO2 from raw materials.
The Ministry of the Environment Project to Promote the Introduction of Advanced Resource Recycling Facilities has begun commercializing the chemical recycling of polystyrene resin and is scheduled to begin operation in the second half of fiscal 2023.
| Category | Project | Site | Subsidy title, relevant authority | Fiscal year | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Energy Saving | Introduction of energy-saving equipment for electrolysis plants and thermal power facilities, and process improvement for carbide plants | Omi Plant | METI | Subsidy program for the rationalization of business operators’ energy use, etc. | FY2015 through FY2018 |
| 2 | Energy Saving | Gas turbine power generation, cement grinder improvement, water pump optimization | Omi Plant | METI | Subsidy program for the rationalization of business operators’ energy use, etc. | FY2018 through FY2020 |
| 3 | Energy Saving | Introduction of high performance boiler | Shibukawa Plant | METI | Subsidy program for the rationalization of business operators’ energy use, etc. | FY2018 |
| 4 | Energy Saving | LED lighting | Omi Plant | METI | Subsidy program to support project costs of facility investments contributing to the reduction of electricity demand | FY2019 |
| 5 | Energy Saving | Energy-saving business by renewing high-efficiency and large-sized gas turbines | Chiba Plant | METI | Subsidy program for the rationalization of business operators’ energy use, etc. | FY2020 through FY2022 |
| 6 | Environment & Energy Saving | LED lighting | Chiba Plant | MOE | Subsidy program for the rationalization of business operators’ energy use, etc. | FY2019 |
| 7 | Environment | Project for Development of Concrete and Other Manufacturing Technologies Using CO2 | Omi Plant | METI | NEDO Green Innovation Fund Project | FY2022 through FY2026 |
| 8 | Environment | Project for the Introduction of Advanced CO2-saving Plastic Recycling Facilities | Toyo Styrene Co.,Ltd | MOE | Project to Promote the Introduction of Advanced Equipment for Recycling Resources to Build a Decarbonized Society | FY2021 through FY2023 |
| 9 | Environment | Project to Ensure Supply Based on the Economic Security Promotion Act | Sustainability Promotion Department | METI | NEDO Green Innovation Fund Project | FY2023 through FY2026 |
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