Showa Denko Group Recycles 4.81 Million Aluminum Cans in FY2017
25 Maggio 2018 - 6:30AM
JCN Newswire (English)
Showa Denko ("SDK"; TSE:4004), its Group companies, and their
cooperative companies continued to perform aluminum can recycling
activity in fiscal 2017 (April 2017 - March 2018), collecting
approximately 4.81 million cans: equivalent to about 76 tons of
aluminum when converted at the rate of 15.7 grams of aluminum per
can.
Showa Aluminum Can Corporation, a consolidated subsidiary of SDK,
started its aluminum can recycling activity in 1972. The activity
spread across the Showa Denko Group in 2001, continuing until
today. Employees of the Group companies and cooperative companies
collect used aluminum cans from their households, workplaces, etc.,
and report the number of cans they collect. In SDK, we have
in-house program to educate employees about aluminum can recycling
and officially commend workplaces and individual employees in
accordance with employees' participation rate or volume of
collected cans, aiming to vitalize the recycling activity. In
fiscal 2017, a total of 7,875 employees, or 97.7% of all Group
employees in Japan, participated in the activity.
Collected aluminum cans are purchased by the Group, and used mainly
by Showa Aluminum Can Corporation to produce aluminum cans to
contain beverages. Recycling of aluminum cans not only contributes
to the promotion of efficient use of resources, but also reduces
electricity consumed to produce aluminum by 97%, compared to the
process in which we produce aluminum from bauxite ore. The Group
donates the money resulting from the recycling activity to regional
councils of social welfare, welfare facilities, and volunteer
groups that aid people with special needs. Thus, this activity has
been firmly established as a social action of the Showa Denko
Group.
The Showa Denko Group always manages its operations based on the
principles of corporate social responsibility, aiming to achieve
missions as a social contribution company. In addition to the
aluminum can recycling, the Group has been promoting business
activities which contribute to conservation of natural resources
and energy, including production of ammonia utilizing used plastics
as raw material and development of SiC epitaxial wafers for power
devices. The Showa Denko Group will continue contributing to
creation of society where affluence and sustainability are
harmonized.
About Showa Denko K.K.
Showa Denko K.K. (SDK; TSE:4004, ADR:SHWDY), a major manufacturer
of chemical products, serves a wide range of fields from heavy
industry to electronics and computer industries. The Petrochemicals
Sector provides cracker products such as ethylene and propylene,
the Chemicals Sector provides industrial, high-performance and
high-purity gases and chemicals for semicon and other industries,
and the Inorganics Sector provides ceramic products, such as
alumina, abrasives, refractory and graphite electrodes and fine
carbon products. The Aluminum Sector provides aluminum materials
and high-value-added fabricated aluminum, the Electronics Sector
provides HD media, compound semiconductors such as ultra
high-bright LEDs and rare earth magnetic alloys, and the Advanced
Battery Materials Department (ABM) provides lithium-ion battery
components. For more information, please visit
www.sdk.co.jp/english/.
Source: Showa Denko K.K.
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