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Construction work was carried out from late September to late December 2007 to repair the exterior thermal insulation system of our Rokko Cold Storage Distribution Center.
The construction, which was designed to save energy to reduce burdens on the natural environment, was made as we applied for a project to promote and support the introduction of efficiency heat-proof systems in operating warehouses, which was offered in fiscal 2007 by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and the MLIT through the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization and the Japan Association of Refrigerated Warehouses.
In the construction work, 12.5-centimeter rigid urethane materials were applied in the warehousing building; on east, west and south exterior walls and in the attic of the second floor, and the external walls were covered with colored steel plate.
In this way, the previous external walls were reformed into high heat-resistant walls.
The construction was going to enable us to cut the amount of electrical power that we consume, which was 4.32 million kilowatts-hour a year prior to the work, by 332,000 kilowatts-hour to 3.988 million kilowatts-hour.
In fact, however, when we surveyed after the construction work, we discovered that we had achieved an average reduction of 9.2 percent over the previous three months, 1.5 percentage points higher than the reduction of 7.7 percent that we had originally projected.
The construction work was introduced by the MLIT’s Kobe District Transport Bureau at a briefing session for applying and accepting plans to introduce energy-saving equipment and technologies as an example of an approved plan for introducing energy-saving equipment in a warehousing facility in Kobe.
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