The Eco Technologies Company is helping create pleasant living environments and promote a recycling-oriented society by supplying a broad array of vehicles and equipment used to collect, transport, and recycle waste products. It is also engaged in supplying wind-power systems, which provide clean energy, and various other products that contribute to global environmental preservation.
Fuji Mighty sanitation trucks have been collecting refuse for over 40 years, and they enjoy a top market share. Besides striving to provide sanitation vehicles that facilitate waste processing and offer easier operation and improved performance, FHI is addressing a growing range of increasingly difficult environmental protection challenges, such as facilitating the efficient collection and sorting of recyclable waste products, precise sanitation truck management, and vehicle recycling as well as conforming with exhaust emission restrictions. In view of this, FHI and ShinMaywa Industries, Ltd., have undertaken a cooperative project aimed at developing sanitation trucks with top levels of performance in all aspects of operations and that are qualified to become the new standard for next-generation sanitation trucks. The partners have completed the cooperative development of a full line of Fuji Mighty LP71-series sanitation trucks with refuse-compacting capabilities and are proceeding with the development of revolving-plate-type sanitation trucks.
The Eco Technologies Company has used FHI’s aircraft-related technologies to develop and market 40kW compact wind-power systems and 100kW midsize wind-power systems, and it is moving forward with the development of 2,000kW large-scale wind-power systems able to meet the power needs of approximately 1,500 households. This large-scale system, the Subaru 80/2.0, employs a downwind-type wind turbine that keeps the rotors slightly downwind of the base tower. While downwind-type wind turbines are rarely seen anywhere in the world, they have special performance features that enable them to make good use of the updrafts that are characteristic of locations with mountainous and hilly terrain. The Company is seeking to expand its wind-power business and thereby help reduce carbon dioxide emissions by developing technologically distinctive wind-power systems suited for the unique geographical and weather conditions of Japan, which has many small islands and mountain valleys and a high incidence of powerful typhoons and lightning storms.
Clean Robot Division has become the first company in the world to commercialize a high-rise building cleaning system employing floor-cleaning robots that autonomously and automatically move about by elevator. This technology was showcased at the 2005 World Exposition in Aichi, Japan, through the pilot use of outdoor cleaning robots and trash-bin-transporter robots as well as the announcement of the development of a mine-clearing robot.