Clean Life Vision 21, Comprehensive Laundry & Dry-cleaning Show
attracts over 31,000 visitors from Japan, Korea and China.

Clean Life Vision 21 Tokyo 2006 (the 44th All Japan Cleaning Study Meeting & Cleaning Related Machine/Materials Exhibition) was held for 3 days from November 24 (Fri.) to 26 (Sun.) 2006 at Tokyo Big Sight, under the theme "The Road to a Value Industry Enhancing" 178 companies (737 booths) exhibited, and 31,382 dry-cleaning-industry visitors participated from Japan, Korea and China.

Scene from Clean Life Vision 21 Tokyo 2006

Kuraray Plastics promotes sheeting to reduce CO₂ yield during waste incineration of advertisements and construction-related products.

Kuraray Plastics has developed sheeting, which reduces CO₂ yield drastically during waste incineration, for various purposes including advertisements such as banners, hanging displays, flags, tapestries and point of purchase advertising (POP), and construction-related products such as safety indications, curing sheets and awnings.

This newly-developed sheeting is 0.35mm thick and 93cm and 187cm wide, priced at ¥500/m² for the fabric only, and the company has a sales goal of ¥100 million for the first year and ¥300 million for the third year.

This product uses vinyl chloride resin packed with inorganic components, and its CO₂ yield is 1,300mg/g under the general incinerating temperature (850°C) which is up to 50% less than that of the company's olefin-made sheet which is 2,600mg/g (CO₂ yield of the company's conventional vinyl chloride sheet is 1,700mg/g). Even under high-temperature incinerating around 1,000°C, CO₂ would not be produced by heat decomposition of inorganic components. It performs just as well as conventional sheeting in secondary workability for printing/solvent welding, strength and flame proofness.

Seiren's nonfiber-based electromagnetic shielding material to be mass-produced from November 2007 at new firm to be established in Fukui.

Seiren will develop a new business with a next-generation electromagnetic shielding made from nonfiber-based material (film) for plasma display, digital electronics and other applications for electromagnetic shielding and electrical conducting material. The company will establish a new firm at Sakai city in Fukui prefecture, and mass production is expected to start from November 2007. It will invest ¥12 billion (over the next 5 years until 2010) for a new firm, equipment and utilities. The production capacity will be 500,000 m² per month (in 2010). It aims to reach ¥10 billion annual sales in fiscal 2010.

Production of Teijin's p-aramid fiber "Twaron" will be increased
at affiliate company in Holland.

Teijin will strengthen by 15% the production capacity of their affiliate company which plays a central role in its aramid fiber business. Through additional facilities, with the accompanying increase in production, as well as an increase in the production in the existing facilities, Teijin Twaron BV (Arnhem) in Holland. Construction started in November 2006, and operations are expected to start progressively from the end of 2008. The demands for "Twaron" including automobile-related applications and safeguarding uses are expanding favorably at an annualized rate of 10 %, and the company is aiming to achieve further growth by actively advancing the development of innovative applications.