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Main targets for fiscal 2000 in Japan

Promoting sales of the newly marketed 3 items in the remanufacturing business area

Support for, and execution of, achieving the actual recycling rate of 85% or more.

Main achievements in fiscal 2000 in Japan

Remanufacturing business
... Addition of 2 new types to the items that are already subject to remanufacturing

Verification of success toward achieving an actual recycling rate of 85% or more
... Confirmed that an 85% or more actual recycling rate has been achieved

In the Disposal and Recycling Domain, Honda is engaged in research to develop technologies for the dismantling of end-of-life products and material recycling technology. Our efforts also concentrate on increasing the recovery of parts, including end-of-life bumpers, on the expansion of their recycling and reuse, and on improvements in actual recycling rate.

1. Remanufacturing Business*

*This means recycling and sales business of usable parts. Usable parts that have been collected from repairs and replacements carried out since 1998 are recovered and recycled for sale with a performance warranty.

Transition in sales of rebuilt parts in Japan

Rate of reuse of recovered parts in Japan

Note) There has been a drop in the rate of reuse for parts because of the high incidence of defects and/or damages in the parts recovered from the newly applied models. Nevertheless, the total reuse rate has increased as a result of the use of defective parts for material recycling.

We have again made further efforts in fiscal 2000 to extend the item range qualifying for our remanufacturing business. Our objective had been the sale of three new items but had to abandon our plan of launching new items in fiscal 2000. This decision was the result of a close technical scrutiny of the recycling process and a thorough examination of the performance and functional characteristics of the products. We did, however, add two new product types to remanufactured power steering gearbox assemblies that are already part of the item range on sale. The product lineup now on sale comprises 47 types of five items.
The current state of progress in terms of the sales figures for the remanufactured products and of the reuse of recycled parts can be seen in the overview on the left.
We are committed to further efforts to extend the range of models qualifying for the use of recycled parts and to develop new recycled products.

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