2016_4q_fpco_e
26/33 - Trends of Capital Investment
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Another initiative is the eco-conscious aspect, which I mentioned a moment ago. In fact, at the fair this time, we presented the feature of this tray called Eco Tray on a massive scale, saying that you could cut CO2 emissions 35% by using the EcoTray, which uses recycled materials. We also said the you could cut CO2 33% by using the Eco APET, a transparent container, which also uses recycled PET materials. We are increasing the lineup of Eco APET products. As described here, the Eco ratio of ordinary PET excluding OPET, or stretched PET, was 74% as of the end of March. I think that we will be able to raise the ratio to 87% at the end of March 2017 with the operation of Eco PET plant in Gifu Hashima. In other words, we will be able to raise the ratio of Eco PET products to 87% of our product line. Although OPET has yet to become Eco, we will also build another similar Eco PET plant in Kanto next year. Once it is completed, about 90% of our products including OPET will be eco-friendly. In fact, this plant did not work well until last year and material costs were very high. However, material costs have been declining, and this will contribute to profits from the current fiscal year. I would like you to go to the actual site and see the plant. I think that it is the first plant of its kind in the world. A container maker manufactures its products from PET bottles collected on the ground. It makes raw materials on its own. We are not importing them. It is an integrated plant that manufactures products from raw materials we produced ourselves. At the moment, we have the capacity to produce a total of 30,000 tons of raw materials for Eco PET, with 20,000 tons at Chubu and 10,000 tons at a PET recycling plant on the west side of Kitakyushu. We plan to start up another plant like the one in Chubu in Kanto in the fall of next year. Its capacity will be 20,000 tons. If that happens, we will become a manufacturer that will use 50,000 tons of raw materials that it produces itself from PET bottles that it has collected itself from the ground.
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