Expansion of Recycling Plant of household appliances in China

We established new recycling plants of household appliances in Tianjin and Tan Hawk, Jiangxi in addition to Shuzhou responding to enforcement of the Chinese Law on Recycling of household appliances in 2011. We are committed to further promoting our business activities, aimed at being NO.1 in China as a Japan-China joint venture of advanced recycling.

Precious Metal Recycling Started in Singapore

DOWA ECO-SYSTEM SINGAPORE is a plant that recovers, smelts and refines precious metals in Singapore, and it started operations officially in April 2012. We plan to expand our precious metal recycling business in Asia by adding Singapore to our existing bases in Japan and China.

First Platinum Group Metal Recycling Business in Europe

We established Nippon PGM Europe in Liberec, Czech Republic in August 2011 as our first recycling business base in Europe. We make sampling and analysis of used catalysts for purifying exhaust from automobiles to promote recycling of precious metals such as platinum, palladium and rhodium.

VOICE : European people are well aware of environmental issues, but recycling of automobile catalysts has not yet been progressed and will expand in a few years from now in Europe. We expect to expand areas of collecting used products to Middle and Eastern Europe and onto Central Asia. We will strive to gain trust from our customers in the field of assessment and recovery technologies we have cultivated so far, responding flexibly to the changing business environment. / CEO Masahiko Ogino, Nippon PGM Europe

Our Plating Business Will Start in China

We will open a new plating plant in Nantong City of Jiangsu Province and the operation will start in 2013.

Heat Treatment Business Started in Jiangsu Province, China

We established the Kunshan DOWA Thermo Furnace in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province. We started operations of our heat treatment and manufacturing plant and a technical center for R & D, heat treatment and processing services.

The First Japanese Company Officially Going into the Heat Treatment Business in India

We acquired control of Hightemp Furnaces Ltd., India's largest heat treatment and processing industrial furnace company in September 2011. We have more than 20 years of relationship with the company that has five plants in India since 1985 when we licensed our technologies to them. We will deploy business activities in India, capitalizing on our technologies and our network of Japanese companies.

VOICE : India, with 4,000 years of cultural background, is a very attractive country as a market. It has a population of more than 1.2 billion and as a global manufacturing base that has abundant labor force. It is a pleasure for us to deploy business activities in India with huge potentiality as the first Japanese manufacturing company relating to heat treatment. We are committed to stepping forward to the future there.
/ Akihiro Sato DOWA Thermotech

Presentation at the Tripartite Environment Ministers Meeting among China, Japan and Korea

The 13th Tripartite Environment Ministers Meeting among China, Korea, and Japan was held in Busan, Korea. It was an industrial forum for environment-related companies from these three countries in April 2011. President Sasaki of ES made a presentation on proper disposal of wastes through international partnership in Asia and made a proposal to the conference, representing all participating companies in the forum.

Presentation of Environmental Technology at the TMS

We made a presentation on the first scorodite process that allows for stable recovery of arsenic from intermediates during copper smelting and refining process and related technologies in the "TMS (Minerals, Metals & Materials Society) 2012-14 1st Annual Meeting & Exhibition" held in Florida, U.S.A in March 2012. TMS is the U.S. largest academic conference on resources and materials where researchers and companies relating to mining, smelting and refining gather from all over the world. Approximately 4,000 people participated in the conference. Active questions and answers at the presentation of the scorodite process indicate that many people are interested in the process.

VOICE : Innovative technologies must be first recognized by the world to be referred to as excellent technologies. International conferences are one of the means to confirm our position in terms of technological development. I made a presentation in the TSM and felt that DOWA had many excellent technologies. However, I also saw that there were many other innovative technologies I had never imagined — I thought I must work harder. / Tetsuo Fujita DOWA Metals & Mining

Exhibit in Singapore

[ES] The 3rd Conference of Regional 3R Forum in Asia in October

Exhibits in China

[TH] International Induction Heating And Surface Heat Treatment Fair 2011, Shanghai, April
[MT] PCIM Asia 2011, Shanghai, June
[ES] China-Japan Green EXPO 2011, Beijing, June
[EL] LED CHINA 2012, Guangzhou, February
[ES] IE Expo 2012, Shanghai, March
[TH] The 12th China Metal Metallurgy Exposition, Chongqing, March

Exhibit in Europe

[EL] [MT]
PCIM 2011: Nuremberg, Germany in May
[EL]
EURO ID2011: Berlin, Germany in April

PPLi Indonesia Commended for Its CSR Activities by Bogor Provence

PPLi is located in Bogor Provence and was commended for its CSR activities by the Governor of Bogor. A wide range of activities were recognized including: Health and Welfare (donation of a clinic and supporting preventative measures to stop dengue fever), Education (dispatching teachers and scholarship) and Sports (football school by professional players) .These activities were highly evaluated and was selected as one of five award winning companies in the province.

DOWA THT AMERICA donated a cherry tree

DOWA THT AMERICA donated a cherry tree for the 100th Anniversary of Bowling Green State University and the tree planting ceremony was held in April 2011.