Dowa Completes Construction of New Waste Treat Facility in Chiba

Dowa Holdings announced on Monday that construction of intermediate treatment facilities for industrial wastes had completed at Eco-System Chiba, an industrial waste disposing company of Dowa Group in Chiba, Japan, in March. The facilities are largest class in Japan, among which a new incinerator started test run on 6 April. Eco-System Chiba’s capacity to dispose industrial wastes expanded by 3.5 times with the new facilities.

The new incinerator can treat industrial wastes at 600 tonnes per day, the largest-class incineration plant in Japan. The plant also utilizes steam out from waste heat boilers for power generation. The incineration capacity of Eco-System Chiba now totals approximately 23,000 tonnes per month, including another incinerator with 240-tonne capacity. The firm deals 18 industrial wastes (including sludge, waste alkali, waste acid, burnt residue and dust, used plastic) and specially controlled industrial wastes by both thermal recycling and material recycling.

Dowa Group operates industrial waste treating business in Akita, Chiba, Okayama and Fukuoka, Japan. Dowa Group’s total treating capacity increased to approximately 1 million tonnes per year by the expansion of Chiba site. Around Chiba site, near Tokyo, industrial waste generation volume is the largest in Japan.