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MOL to move Technology Research Centre to Kawasaki
(May  21  2009)

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines has announced plans to move the MOL Technology Research Centre from its current site in Nishikojiya, Ota Ward, Tokyo, to Aso Ward in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture.

The Micom City site that will house the new centre is being developed by Kawasaki City to attract research and development institutes, to fuel future economic growth.

The MOL Technology Research Centre is involved in a number of vessel efficiency projects, such as analysing vessel fuel oils and lubricants, developing a fuel oil pre-treatment device, research and development on CO2 reduction, and other R&D efforts to improve storage and transport technologies, such as advanced reefer containers.

The company says that new centre will be an environmentally-friendly research facility using energy-saving technologies to reduce its external power consumption.

This will include solar energy, natural lighting, and ice thermal storage systems, which use electricity to make ice at night, when demand for power is low, and then later melt the ice for air conditioning.

Construction of the MOL Technology Research Centre is scheduled to be completed in February 2010.

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