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- Environment, Safety, and Energy
Environment, Safety, and Energy
The NLM Group contributes to safety and preservation of the environment in a variety of ways
using its group-wide technical development capacities to make the most of the innate
characteristics of aluminum in environmental applications.
- Anodizing Factories and
Printing Plate Factories 
Alkali collection device
A device that separates caustic soda and crystalline aluminum hydroxide from the caustic waste that results during the etching process of aluminum surface treatment so that those substances can be reused
- Disaster Prevention Equipment
Disaster prevention storage shed
Disaster prevention storage sheds that are very reliable for long-term storage of physical goods, including some solar-powered models
- Soil
Aluminum chloride hexahydrate
Aluminum chloride hexahydrate for spreading on soil to control the soil's acidity
- Seismic Motion Control
BRACEREE™
An aluminum brace that is capable of reducing seismic motion in wooden houses during an earthquake using an aluminum hysteretic damper to absorb energy
- Flood control measures
Land locks and sluice gates
Land locks and sluice gates have been installed across Japan as facilities to protect people's lives and property from flooding.
Land locks and sluice gates made of aluminum alloy are used in many areas because of its light weight, ease of operation, and high corrosion resistance.
- Nuclear power plants
MAXUS®, a neutron absorber material for both spent fuel pool racks and dry cask storage
MAXUS® is a B4C-mixed metal matrix composite (MMC) with neutron absorber in aluminum powder. A new high- performance Al-B4C composite with neutron absorber required for basket materials in spent fuel storage as well as for rack materials in spent fuel pools will be manufactured and delivered by the optimum manufacturing method.
Relevant Business Groups and Group companies
- Chemicals Business Group
- Nippon Light Metal (Chemicals Div.)
- Sheet and Extrusion Business Group
- Nikkei Sangyo Co., Ltd.
- Nikkeikin ACT
- Engineering Business Group
- Nikkei Engineering
- NLM ECAL Co., Ltd.