Research and Development

Tackling the Resolution of Social Issues by Elevating Our Cultivated Technologies

As a general water infrastructure company, FUSO is building a strong technological foundation to create better water environments. To this end, we have organized our research and development efforts into laboratories covering five fields within FUSO Technocenter, and have established FUSO's technology strategy, which organizes and analyzes important areas in technology strategy, identifies issues related to future water infrastructure, and outlines the direction of our technology. Focusing on the future of water infrastructure in Japan and overseas, we aim to make everyone involved with FUSO happy and become a company that is needed by society.

• Three Areas for Maintaining and Improving Technical and Professional Skills
• FUSO-MERITS
• Dual Axes for FUSO's Technology
• Structure of FUSO's Technology Strategy
• Joint Research
• Radioactive Cesium Decontamination Technology for Ash
• Water Quality Analysis
• Technology Development Laboratory (FUSO Technocenter)

What we call "FUSO-MERITS" is the development and practical implementation of technologies that contribute to the maintenance and improvement of specialist techniques, to management, to water environments, and to resilience through innovation of technology and cultivation of human resources. Here, "merit" is used in both the meaning of "benefit or advantage" as well as of "true value/worth (to be admired)." FUSO-MERITS is the embodiment of our belief that FUSO's evolution is in its technologies.

FUSO's technology strategy consists of two components: Maintaining and improving specialized technologies with competitiveness and superiority, technological development meeting market needs. Specialized technologies refers to the field capabilities that we have cultivated since our founding. Our goal is to develop these technologies into a competitive advantage in two areas, related to the engineering and construction of water treatment facilities, as well as engineering and manufacturing accumulated at steel pipe plants. Technological development refers to the development of technologies that will be needed in the water infrastructure and other markets in the future, based on technologies developed at our water treatment laboratory and other facilities. As these two axes interact with each other, our technologies take a giant leap forward.

To have the dual axes of FUSO's technology function, we positioned "maintaining and improving specialized technologies" and "technological development" as strategies, and established a hierarchy of tactics and tools under each of these. Here, we promote and deploy four tactics and 16 tools under two strategies to ensure the sustainable development of technology.

Solving major social issues, such as global environmental problems and environmental improvements in emerging countries, is difficult for companies to tackle alone. We aim to solve problems at an early stage by combining the advanced cutting-edge technologies of national research institutes, universities, and other institutions, the engineering capabilities of companies, within their respective fields of expertise.

The technology jointly proposed by FUSO, Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc. and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) was selected as a technology to collect and stabilize radioactive cesium in adsorbent material in the ash washing demonstration test work targeting fly ash generated at temporary ash treatment facilities (Part 1) project commissioned by the Japan Environmental Storage & Safety Corporation. 

Case Study (Complete Construction of a Water Treatment Plant)

We propose solutions to water quality issues faced by our clients by conducting on-site investigations, water quality analysis in laboratories, and reproducibility testing. 
・Water quality analysis: pH, turbidity, color, ion content, hardness, metals, organic components, etc.
・Sludge analysis: Component testing, dewaterability, sedimentability, etc.
・Water treatment experiments: Jar tests, column tests (filtration, adsorption, etc.), etc.

Case Study (Complete Construction of a Water Treatment Plant)