Kawasaki City is home of one of Japan’s oldest and largest industrial parks. Established in 1902, Kawasaki Coastal Industrial Area houses over 50 heavy industrial enterprises, including oil refineries, steel manufacturer, power station and chemical manufacturers. During the 1970s the city and the industrial park were considered one of Japan’s most contaminated areas. In 1997 the city of Kawasaki designated approximately 2,800 ha of water front property as its Eco-town Project site. It is anticipated that that the various industrial and business functions present in the zone will produce combinations needed to foster a globally-competitive, resource recycling industrial system (ICETT (n.d.); Lowe 2001).
The following regional synergy examples are documented in this database:
By-Product Synergies
- Recycling of Discarded Electronic Appliances Providing Inputs for the Steel Industry
- Used Plastics as Coke Substitution in Iron Works
- Waste Plastics Recycled and Used as Raw Material for Blast Furnace
Utility Synergies
- information not yet available
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This webpage was last modified on 14 February 2007.
Disclaimer: The synergy information is provided for general use and although we believe all data to be correct, CSRP can accept no responsibility for the accuracy of the information. All presented case-study examples are retrieved from publicly available resources.