The DOWA Group is building a unique recycling-oriented business model centered on metals by linking our five core businesses. In the "environmental management & recycling business", we detoxify waste and separate and recover metals from used products. The recovered metal is used as raw material for smelting. In the "nonferrous metals business", we extract useful metals from various recyclable raw materials in addition to the natural resource of ore. Through the" electronic materials business"," metal processing business" and "heat treatment business", these metals become materials with the added value of function by various processes such as high-purification treatment, electroplating treatment and surface treatment. Products that pass from the manufacturer to the consumer are eventually used up,
leading to a recycling system that again recovers metals through the "environmental management & recycling business".
Instead of business collaboration as part of the manufacturing process, there are multiple loops and networks in a chain of recycling, and each business is building an organic structure to take advantage of each other. For example, in the" nonferrous metals business", there is the loop of Akita Zinc, which is a zinc smelter, and Kosaka Smelting & Refining, which does recycle smelting. Since byproducts generated during the production of zinc are used as raw materials for recycle smelting, more types of metals are recovered and a process that does not generate waste is realized. In addition, after recovering metals from waste generated from each business, the "environmental management & recycling business" plays an important role as group-wide infrastructure by having incineration plants and disposal sites that handle it properly. Our strength lies in the fact that business collaboration functions as a means to create greater value in this process of recycling.
