Visit to Mayekawa Europe

On February 20th, Ambassador Ishii and secretary Yamada visited Mayekawa Europe (a local subsidiary of the Mayekawa manufacturing company in Japan), located in Zaventem, in the outskirts of Brussels. At this location it produces refrigerator compressors for industrial use which are sold mainly in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Furthermore, machines to automatically remove bones from pork, chicken and turkey, namely HAMDAS, TORIDAS and TAKIDAS, which are some of the company’s products, were introduced in the speech by Prime Minister Abe at the ministerial council of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) last year in May in the context of the use of robot technology.

(Reference Material) Speech of the Prime Minister: http://japan.kantei.go.jp/96_abe/statement/201405/oecd.html