Showa Denko performs aluminium can recycling of 4.81 million in FY2017

Japan’s leading manufacturer of chemical products and industrial materials, Showa Denko and its group companies and their cooperative companies continued to perform aluminium can recycling activity in fiscal 2017, ended on 31^st of March, 2018, by collecting approximately 4.81 million cans, which are equivalent to about 76 tonnes of aluminium when converted at the rate of 15.7 grams of aluminium per can.

Showa Aluminium Can Corporation, a consolidated subsidiary of SDK had begun the can recycling activity in 1972, which later on, spread across the Showa Denko Group in 2001 and continuing until today.

Employees of the group companies and cooperative companies collect the cans for recycling from households and workplaces, and then report the total number of cans collected. In fiscal 2017, a total of 7875 employees or 97.7 per cent of all Group employees in Japan participated in the activity.

Showa Aluminium Can Corporation mainly use these collected cans to produce aluminium cans to contain beverages. This process of recycling not only contributes to the promotion of efficient use of resources but also reduces the use of electricity 97 per cent, compared to the electricity used for smelting aluminium from bauxite ore.

The Group donates the money earned from this recycling activity to various social welfare causes.