NEDO, ISMA: USE WORLD’S HIGHEST-GRADE FIRE- RETARDANT MAGNESIUM ALLOY AND SUCCEED IN TRIAL PRODUCTION OF SECTION OF BODY STRUCTURE FOR RAPID RAILWAY CAR

摘要

New Energy and Indust r i a l Technol ogyDevelopment Organization (NEDO), a governmentalresearch and development agency, and InnovativeStructural Materials Association (ISMA) said June12 that they jointly used a fire-retardant magnesiumalloy in the trial production of a body structure sectionof a rapid railway car, which has the identical crosssection size as the Bullet Train and succeeded.