9.30Tue 2025
Forest culture of mutual cooperation taking root in Austria, where wood biomass heat supply is spreading [Heat supply business as a basis for local economic circulation 2].
I heard these words more than once during my business trips to Europe: "I don't have that much money saved and I'll be fine" and "The government will take care of me in my old age." [...].
9.18Thu 2025
Biomass Chemistry Advances to the Practical Stage with Various Conversion Technologies - Forest Circular Economy and Chemical Industry (3)
In the previous issue, we overviewed the characteristics of biomass as a resource. In this issue, we will discuss how biomass resources can be used to produce biochemicals and biofuels [...].
8.29Fri 2025
A Sustainable Model Learned in Austrian Villages for Spreading Heat Energy in Mountain Villages [Heat Supply Business as a Basis for Local Economic Circulation 1: Overview].
Have you ever felt uncomfortable with the use of fossil fuels as a matter of course? Nowadays, electricity and heat energy are generated by coal and [...].
8.27Wed 2025
Carbon-Neutral Salt Production with Wood Biomass Power Generation Nihonkaisui to Start Operations at Sanuki Plant in FY2028
A plan to convert an existing coal-fired power plant to a wood biomass power plant at the Nihonkaisui Sanuki Plant (Sakaide City, Kagawa Prefecture) has been approved by the [...]
8.26Tue 2025
Exploring raw biomass (2) "Softwoods and hardwoods" as different as "sharks and dolphins
Biomass, which lexically refers to the amount of living organisms (bio) (mass), as opposed to fossil resources such as oil and coal [...].
8.12Tue 2025
Why Japan Needs a "Circular Forest Economy" Now: Resource Self-Sufficiency, Lifelong Growth, and a Resident-Financed Platinum Society
As Chairman of the Platinum Initiative Network and former President of the University of Tokyo, I have long been thinking about the future of Japan. Now, the world [...].
8.4Mon 2025
Establishing Technologies to Utilize Lignin, Key to Realizing a Decarbonized Society: Active Research Utilizing Microbial Metabolism [Cultivating the Future through Carbon Cultivation].
Reducing dependence on oil and securing sustainable material feedstocks are essential to achieving a decarbonized society. To address this challenge [...].
7.25Fri 2025
Forest Circular Economy, edited by Hiroshi Komiyama, is a vision for the year 2050: Rebuilding Japan as a resource-rich nation will start with its forests.
The national challenges facing Japan today - carbon neutrality by 2050, regional sustainability, and resource self-sufficiency. These [...]...
7.19Sat 2025
Mitsubishi Chemical Group Invests in Australia's Licella Holdings to Expand Oil Conversion Business from Used Plastics and Biomass
The Mitsubishi Chemical Group is pleased to announce that its corporate venture capital subsidiary, Diamond Edge Ventures, I [...].
7.10Thu 2025
Sanyo Engineering, which contributes to the circular economy of the region by turning waste wood and unused forest materials into high-quality chips for power generation, has been recognized as an excellent company.
Sanyo Engineering, a machine designer and manufacturer of shredding and sorting equipment for wood and wood waste, is participating in the Hiroshima Industrial Promotion Organization's [...]
7.9Wed 2025
Carbon Neutrality as a Basis for Biomass Utilization in the Forest Circular Economy Landscape Approach is Key
The argument for wood use in many places is based on the premise that forest biomass is carbon neutral [...].
7.8Tue 2025
Expanding Possibilities with "Form-Sustaining Cellulose Materials" that Utilize the Superior Natural Structure of Wood [Cultivating the Future through Carbon Cultivation].
The Paris Agreement was adopted at COP21 in Paris, France in December 2015. This agreement is an agreement that all participants [...].
7.8Tue 2025
Exploring raw biomass (1) Characterization is important to reveal the characteristics and properties of plants
The use of biomass as an alternative to fossil resources is being actively considered, and there have been several booms in the past for this type of initiative [...].
7.7Mon 2025
Biomass Resources" Contributing to Global Warming Prevention - Forest Circular Economy and Chemical Industry (2)
As a review of the previous issue, let us take another look at the manufacturing process of the chemical industry in Japan, from raw materials to the production of chemical products. [...].
7.4Fri 2025
Recycling Used Plastic to Accelerate Circular Economy ENEOS and Mitsubishi Chemical Completed Construction of Chemical Recycling Facility
ENEOS and Mitsubishi Chemical have completed construction of a chemical recycling facility at Mitsubishi Chemical's Ibaraki Plant in Kamisu City, Ibaraki [...].
7.3Thu 2025
TOYO Develops Reactor for Small-Scale Plants Enabling Regionally Distributed Green Methanol Production
TOYO has developed the MRF-Z Neo (TM [...]), a reactor for small-scale plants optimized for green methanol production.
