Kansai Recycling Systems Co Ltd disclosed its recycling line for flat-panel TVs March 18, 2009. Kansai Recycling is a company of which Sharp Corp and Mitsubishi Materials Corp hold 43.3% and 40.0% shares, respectively.
Other than these two companies, Sanyo Electric Co Ltd, Sony Corp, Hitachi Appliances Inc, Fujitsu General Ltd and Mitsubishi Electric Corp each hold a 3.3% share in the company.
The recycling line was installed at Kansai Recycling's Second Plant and will start operation April 1, 2009, when recycling of flat-panel TVs will be obliged under Japan's Home Electric Appliance Recycling Law. The company will recycle used LCD TVs and PDP TVs manufactured by its shareholding companies.
The recycling of flat-panel TVs will start across Japan in accordance with the obligation to recycle flat panel TVs. And Kansai Recycling focuses on the recycling of large TVs, President Kazuhiro Nakayama said.
The size of its recycling line will be small because only a small number of flat-panel TVs will be disposed of initially. The company will recycle TVs, dividing them into 32-inch and larger models, and smaller models.
Basically, Kansai Recycling will recycle small TVs manually though it introduced "large TV transfer equipment," which carries TVs to the recycling line, to alleviate the burden on workers.
In addition, the company developed a "large TV slope reverse worktable" that allows workers to easily reverse the front part of a television. This worktable enables to efficiently unscrew a lot of screws on both faces of a flat-panel TV with less workload.
Sharp expects the new line to recycle 30,000 flat-panel TVs in fiscal 2009. Although the number is extremely small compared with that of CRT TVs, Sharp intends to build up its expertise through this line as the number of recycled flat-panel TVs is expected to sharply rise in the future. The investment in the new line is about ¥30 million (approx US$314,000).
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