Japan

Industrial gas company Air Water has revealed plans to construct its 17th and 18th VSUs in Japan.

Japanese corporation Showa Denko (SDK) will start to supply “low-carbon” hydrogen (H2) gas made from used plastics to Kawasaki King Skyfront Tokyu Rei Hotel as an energy source for fuel cells.

Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation (Toshiba ESS) has started a demonstration project in partnership with Iwatani Corporation in Kushiro city, Hokkaido Prefecture, at a hydrogen (H2) production facility.

Showa Denko started its Project 2020+ medium-term management plan in December 2015, and their specialty gas business for semiconductors, identified as a growth-acceleration area in that plan, continues to perform well, The Gas Review reported.

Toyota is preparing for ten-fold growth in fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV) after 2020 with a new facility to produce fuel cell stacks and a new dedicated line for high-pressure hydrogen (H2) tanks.

Air Water has been in the news with M&A in medicine, agriculture, food products and other life style-related businesses, and according to The Gas Review, the company also took part in M&A in industry-related business...

Japanese chemical company Asahi Kasei has begun trial operation of an alkaline water electrolysis plant for the production of green hydrogen (H2) using renewable energy jointly with IHI Corp. in Soma, Fukushima.

Honda’s Clarity Series – the plug-in hybrid, fuel cell and electric vehicles – have been awarded the 2018 California Air Quality Award for Corporate Environmental Stewardshipby the Coalition for Clean Air.

The Gas Review reports that on 13th April, the industrial-academic alliance of Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corporation (TNSC), Osako University and Hanoi University of Science and Technology agreed to the planned establishment of a training centre...

Iwatani Corporation opened the first commercial hydrogen (H2) refuelling station in Okayama Prefecture last month.