Taiheiyo Cement will implement a technology for CO_2 capture from the flue gas of cement rotary kilns which will be the first demonstration plant in Japan with a capacity of 10 t/d. For this purpose, Taiheiyo Cement has selected the technology for CO_2 chemical absorption supplied by Carbon Clean of the United Kingdom, which has been awarded by Marubeni Protechs Corporation in Japan. This technology will be installed at Taiheiyo Cement's Kumagaya plant located in Kumagaya City, Saitama, and demonstration tests will begin in September 2021. Taiheiyo Cement has positioned the reduction of CO_2 emissions as an important growth strategy and formulated "Specific measures of their long-term vision for greenhouse gas emissions reduction towards 2050" on March 30th, 2020. The most important project among the innovative technologies that Taiheiyo Cement is currently working on is the development of CO_2 capture and carbon recycling technology suitable for cement kilns. Taiheiyo Cement has been developing this technology as a sole grant recipient of the "Development of Carbon Circulation Technology for the Cement Industry," a project funded by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) which was awarded in June 2020.
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