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Ube Industries,Ltd. (President: Kazumasa Tsunemi) recently began full operation
of a facility for burning waste wood chips (wood biomass)
for electric power generation. Construction of the facility
was completed in March 2004.
This facility was built to combine the purposes of a
waste wood scrapping facility set up on the premises of
our cement plant in Ube, and another facility at the Isa
cement plant designed to supply materials for use in electric-power
generation boilers. The facility uses scrap lumber from
construction as well as wood culled from forests, converting
it to chips at the scrapping facility and then transporting
it via a private road to the Isa cement plant, where it
is used to fuel circulating fluidized bed combustion boilers
for electric power generation.
The processing capacity of the new plant is about 45,000
tons a year, constituting 20-25% of the fuel needed to
run the electric power plant.
This plan was realized as part of an effort supported
by the Forestry Agency to promote facilities that utilize
wood biomass, one aim of which is to make good use of
wood that can be thinned from forests.
The reform of the Construction Recycling Law in 2002 stiffened
company's obligations to make use of wood waste from construction,
and to find suitable uses for scrap wood.
Ube Industries,Ltd.'s three cement plants in Ube, Isa
and Kanda currently use over 3 million tons of waste materials
annually. Some materials used as raw materials for cement
include carbon ash from thermoelectric power plants across
the country, slag from steel plants, sludge from local
government agencies in western Japan, and detoxified urban
waste ash from Yamaguchi Ecotech Co., a joint venture
of Ube and Tokuyama Corp.
At the same time, we have also been actively promoting
the use of scrap plastic, used tires and old tatami mats
as fuel substitutes for coal at our cement plants. Our
new wood-chip fuel plant is an integral part of this effort.
Through this new plant, Ube aims to lower the cost of
generating electric power at the cement plant, but also
to make more efficient use of natural resources, and reduce
carbon-dioxide emissions as a way of contributing to environmental
protection efforts.
(Reference materials) Ube cement plant wood-scrap facility
For inquiries please contact:
Ube Industries, Ltd.
Investor Relations & Public Relations Dept.
Corporate Planning & Administration Office
Seavance North Building, 1-2-1 Shibaura, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8449
Phone : +81(3)5419-6110
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