Environmental equipment orders increased 3.6% YoY 1999.12.15

The Japan Industrial Machinery Industry Association summarized the Order of environmental equipment for the first half of fiscal 1999 (April-September). 676,065,000,000 yen, a 3.6 percent increase over the previous year, in particular, ahead of the dioxin regulation of urban waste incinerator in 2002, and the garbage disposal system increased by 31.5% to 335,708,000,000 yen. In the second half of the year, however, it was expected that the field which had been ordered ahead by the economic measures such as water pollution prevention would be greatly depressed.