Kiwa Bijutsu (“Kiwa” or “Company”) is a private Japanese corporation that specializes in pottery. Since its inception in 1988, Kiwa Bijutsu has been active throughout all of Japan and abroad as a pottery manufacturer and seller. The company’s activities have also included selling draper, jewels, and precious metals as well as being involved in the disposal of industrial waste. Kiwa Bijutsu’ major clients consist of Kyocera Group, a highly successful Japanese public company with consolidated net sales of 1,128,586 million yen (Year ended March 31, 2009), and large department stores such as Daimaru or Matsuya. Kiwa Bijutsu intends to shift the business emphasis to the disposal area through the development of a new energy facility. Kiwa Kozan serves as the Managing Venturer for Kiwa Project.
The gross amount of industrial waste in Japan exceeds 400 million tons (as of 2006, it was 418.5 million tons). Special attention needs to be paid to PCB (Polychlorinated biphenyls) waste. The Japanese Ministry of the Environment announced by statute the decision to discard vast industrial waste including 54,000 tons of PCB by 2016. Methods for achieving the goal of discarding the waste include, dechlorination degradation utilizing metallic sodium, thermo-oxidative decomposition, and photolytic degradation which are all authorized by the Japanese Government. These processes are not only slow in disposal capacity but also produce secondary waste in the process of disposal which leaves a by-product that has to be disposed of as well.
Kiwa Bijutsu 