EPSON unveils refinery to recycle waste metal

EPSON Atmix has invested in plant and equipment on the construction of new factory, a sustainable metal refinery that will recycle waste metal to produce the raw material for metal powder, at Hachinohe City in Aomori, Japan. As stated in its Environmental Vision 2050, the company seeks to become carbon negative and underground resource free by 2050 with the aim of achieving sustainability and enriching communities. The new EPSON Atmix sustainable metal refinery is located at Hachinohe City in Aomori, in the far north of Japan’s main Honshu Island.

Part of EPSON’s environmental strategy, outlined in the ‘EPSON ’25 Renewed’ corporate vision, is to develop environmental technologies for recycling materials such as metal and paper and to use the resulting technologies and solutions to create new businesses. EPSON Atmix recognises that sourcing virgin materials will likely become more challenging due to underground resource scarcity and soaring metal prices. The new factory is aimed at mitigating risk by manufacturing metal powders from recycled metal resources.