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Mitsubishi Estate has recently opened the Marunouchi
India Economic Zone in Tokyo, an initiative aimed at fostering
business opportunities for Japanese and Indian companies
seeking to enter each other’s markets. A number of obstacles still exist both in India and Japan for businesses that are looking to enter one another’s
markets and are often identified
as differences in business culture and
policies as well as the lack of a local
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growth in the Indian economy and offering
business support services
to Indian and Japanese
companies, Mitsubishi Estate
aims to further enhance
the competitiveness of the
Marunouchi area as an
international business center. |
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Dai Nippon Toryo (DNT) and LILAMA 3 Joint Stock Company
(LM3) signed an agreement launching the LILAMA 3-Dai Nippon
Toryo paint trading joint venture at a ceremony held in a Hanoi
hotel on July 14. The LILAMA group had been seeking to enter
the industrial paint industry by acquiring technology through a
tie-up with a foreign company. On learning of this, DNT reached
agreement with LM3 – a steel fabricator affiliated to the LILAMA
group – and together they established the new venture.
The joint venture will set up a distribution system for anticorrosion
coatings and other industrial paint products made by DNT.
It also plans to build a manufacturing plant in Vietnam by 2015. |
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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has announced plans to commercialize a concentrated solar thermal power plant (CSP) that does not use cooling water, making it a world first.
Existing systems use solar energy to heat molten salt and then
use that thermal energy to turn water into the steam that drives the
generating turbines. These systems, however, require large amounts
of water to “cool” the steam and condense it back into water and is
not suitable for sunbelt area which has abundant sunshine. The new
system uses sunlight to heat compressed air and utilizes the energy
of the hot air to power the
turbines.
Working with Australia's
national research institute,
the Commonwealth Scientific
and Industrial Research
Organization (CSIRO),
MHI plans to complete
development of the heatreceiving
unit this fiscal year
and to commercialize a 2.5MW
plant in 2013 and a 10MW
plant afterward.
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Kirin Europe, the European arm of Kirin Holdings, started
brewing its flagship beer brand KIRIN ICHIBAN at a brewery in
Weihenstephan near Munich in early October and will market it
in 23 countries in European. Since KIRIN ICHIBAN for Japanese
market was updated to 100 % malt last year, it paved the way for
KIRIN to become the first Japanese brewer to produce beer in
Germany, where a law states that beer has to be made from 100
% malt. Brewing KIRIN ICHIBAN in Germany will
additionally has benefits to deliver it much fresher
throughout Europe by shortening transportation
routes than previously used, which will be also
to be with smaller environmental loads. KIRIN
Holdings say they’ll continue to make efforts to
give new value to their customers in Europe.
■ http://www.kirinholdings.co.jp/news/2010/0803_01.html |
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