New Iwaki Plant

Note: The New Iwaki Plant is scheduled for completion in 2026.

Fukushima Prefecture - a place where advanced technologies gather

Since the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, Fukushima Prefecture has been working to restore industry in areas lost to the earthquake and nuclear disaster. Fukushima Prefecture is putting together advanced technologies as well as research and collaborating with local companies in energy and the environmental fields and other fields to build a new industrial base.
Asaka Riken has been making a significant contribution to this effort. We have actively promoted research and development of minor metals and rare metals recycling at the Iwaki Plant Production Technology Development Center established in 2014. We are promoting our LiB recycling business through introducing new equipment at our Iwaki Plant.

• History of the Iwaki Plant

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  Former Iwaki Plant

• Our Iwaki Plant and Production Technology Development Center together serve as a research and development base for recycling minor metals and rare metals. From the time of its completion, the plant began joint research with the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA). It has begun full-scale research and development activities, including emulsion flow method demonstration experiment. We have also succeeded in recovering rare metals from optical lens waste and increasing its purity through demonstration experiment for the commercialization of lanthanum and gadolinium refining.
  We have acquired many patents related to minor metal recovery and regeneration technologies that we have cultivated through repeated joint research and demonstration testing. We continue to actively acquire patents. Our LiB recycling business is a business that utilizes the minor metal recycling technology and know-how we have accumulated to date.

  Note: Information current as of 2021.