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2023/4/13

Gunze Opens Moriyama Circular Factory ™ that Circulates Plastic Resources

Osaka-Gunze Limited (Headquarters: Osaka, Japan) announced that it will complete the transformation of its Moriyama Factory, the core of its plastic film business, into a Circular Factory™ (Resource Recycling Factory) on April 18. The factory will not only utilize solar energy and large water resources as energy, but will also consider products and raw materials that were discarded without use in the traditional linear system of "Take (resource extraction), Make (production), and Waste (disposal)" as new resources, creating a manufacturing system that recycles resources without producing waste. The plant will be a high-tech facility with a production system that recycles resources without producing waste.
In December 2019, Gunze established "Promoting a Basic Policy Toward a Recycling System for Plastics," declaring that 50% of the raw materials used in the plastics business will be recycled and biomass by 2027, and that the ratio will increase to 100% by 2030. The Circular Factory is a zero-emission*1 factory that produces no plastic waste. The company will then recover its own multilayer films with various types of materials and establish technologies for separating and recycling various types of materials to realize the commercialization of 100% recyclable raw materials.

*1 Zero Emissions：An initiative to achieve zero waste to landfills by reusing waste from one industry in another.

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