Oji Paper invests in more RPF boilers.
Oji Paper Group, Tokyo Tokyo (tō`kēō), city (1990 pop. 8,163,573), capital of Japan and of Tokyo prefecture, E central Honshu, at the head of Tokyo Bay. , Japan, in an effort to reduce global warming global warming, the gradual increase of the temperature of the earth's lower atmosphere as a result of the increase in greenhouse gases since the Industrial Revolution. and decrease waste will invest in a proactive way by putting its efforts in Refuse Plastic and Paper Fuel and a biomass boiler boiler, device for generating steam. It consists of two principal parts: the furnace, which provides heat, usually by burning a fuel, and the boiler proper, a device in which the heat changes water into steam. plant. The first stage of the Yen 15 billion (US$ 127.6 million) was lot boilers at Tomakomai and Ohita mills that will be completed in July 2004. Stage two puts Yen 14.5 billion (US$ 123.3 million) into similar efforts at Nichinan and Yonago mills. With these four plant upgrades, Oji hopes to reduce carbon dioxide carbon dioxide, chemical compound, CO2, a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas that is about one and one-half times as dense as air under ordinary conditions of temperature and pressure. emissions by 850,000 metric tons.
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