Shimizu Corporation has launched a demonstration project to test direct CO2 capture from seawater. The company plans to install a pilot plant in Tokyo Bay to evaluate CO2 recovery, continuous operation and the environmental suitability of treated seawater.
Honda, Taisei Corporation and Taisei Rotec have developed core technology for a dynamic wireless power transfer road system that can charge EVs while driving, including heavy commercial vehicles. The partners plan to build a test track at Taisei's T-FIELD/TAMURA facility from late 2026 and participate in a public-road demonstration on the Tateyama Expressway in Chiba from FY2027 onward.
Sumitomo Electric has completed and opened Research Building No. 6, PRISM Lab., at its Yokohama Works to strengthen R&D for optical communications products used in data centers. The facility includes advanced experimental and analytical equipment, precision-controlled laboratories, and supports research into higher-performance, smaller and lower-cost optical connectors and other connection components.
Shikoku Chuken will build a new headquarters facility on land adjacent to its existing headquarters in Ayagawa, Kagawa. The facility will expand research and development using clinical specimens and testing data collected from across Shikoku, along with corporate planning, information processing and administrative functions; operations are scheduled to begin in January 2028.
Mitsui Fudosan, through Mitsui Fudosan (UK) Ltd, started construction on September 17, 2026, on a major mixed-use redevelopment at London King's Cross. The project will add a British Library extension of approximately 100,000 sq ft and approximately 600,000 sq ft of office, laboratory and commercial space, with completion planned for 2032.
Aichi Steel will build a six-story new technology building at its existing site in Tokai, Aichi, to strengthen research and development and technical workforce training. The facility will include laboratories, offices and shared spaces, with completion planned for December 2028 and total investment of approximately ¥10 billion.
Oishii Farm opened its Open Innovation Center in Hamura, Tokyo, on August 5, 2026, as a research and development facility dedicated to plant factories and next-generation agriculture. Asahi Kogyosha handled the full plant-cultivation facility construction, including interior work, environmental-control and air-conditioning systems, and nutrient-solution equipment.
SOLIZE PARTNERS and its Indian affiliate opened an AI Innovation Lab in Bengaluru, India, to conduct research and development combining manufacturing engineering, 3D data and 3D printing with AI. The lab will serve as a global R&D, talent-development and technology hub focused on design support, predictive maintenance, defect detection, industrial AI/IoT and robotics applications.
JFE Engineering will conduct Japan's first demonstration of separating and recovering CO2 from actual waste-incineration flue gas using metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). The pilot will use the Clean Plaza Fujimi waste-treatment plant in Mitaka, Tokyo, and is scheduled to run through the end of FY2026, with recovery of several kilograms of CO2 per day.
INPEX will establish a new research and development center in the Kashiwanoha Campus area of Kashiwa, Chiba, to accelerate innovation in energy technologies. The center will include office and research space, an experimental building, and outdoor facilities, with construction planned to start in May 2027 and operations scheduled for April 2029.
NYK Line group company Keihin Dock signed a memorandum of cooperation with Oceanic Constellations and Sagami Transport Warehouse to establish the Yokosuka Constellations Center in Taura, Yokosuka. The planned facility will conduct research and development, construction and repair, and operational services for marine unmanned vehicles.
ITOKI has renewed its 30-year-old mother factory and chair manufacturing site in Omihachiman, Shiga, reopening it in January 2026 as ITOKI DESIGN HOUSE SHIGA. The four-story, 2,568-sqm facility combines an external co-creation space, internal co-creation areas and a laboratory, employee workspaces, and a cafeteria, serving as a working showroom and development hub.
Dai Nippon Printing will open the FIO Lab at its Tsukuba Integrated Development Center in August 2026. The R&D facility will provide practical manufacturing-like environments for validating AI, robotics, equipment design, quality control and process-control technologies with corporate, university and research partners, supporting deployment across DNP manufacturing sites.
Renesas Electronics has opened a Physical AI and Robotics Lab in Beijing to support customer demonstrations, validation and co-development of next-generation robotics systems. The R&D facility will integrate hardware, software, AI models, control, power, sensing and system-level validation, serving as a hub from proof of concept through large-scale deployment.
Sumitomo Heavy Industries has started commissioning a pilot-test facility for gasification in Niihama, Ehime, Japan. The facility is an R&D and pilot plant for validating gasification technology and related process equipment; no investment amount or capacity is disclosed in the provided text.
Yukiguni Factory will open the Kinoko Mirai Lab on July 6, 2026, in Kawaguchi, Saitama. The new R&D hub will combine existing mushroom research with research into functional materials and new technologies, supporting collaboration with customers and universities and the creation of new businesses.
ADEKA has begun full-scale operations at its new Semiconductor Innovation Center within the ADEKA Technology Center Kuki in Saitama. The facility consolidates and expands semiconductor-materials research, with cleanrooms and evaluation equipment for advanced front-end and back-end semiconductor materials.
TOTO will build a new R&D building within its Chigasaki plant in Kanagawa to accelerate development of next-generation electrostatic chucks and AD components for semiconductor manufacturing equipment. The facility will expand prototype production lines and is scheduled to start construction in December 2026 and be completed in April 2028.
Yokowo's Chinese subsidiary Dongguan Youhua Communication Parts Co., Ltd. established a new anechoic chamber at the factory site of its affiliated manufacturing company in Dongguan, Guangdong. Test operation began in June 2026, with full operation scheduled for the end of June, enabling local evaluation and analysis of automotive antennas for GNSS, ETC, 4G, 5G and V2X applications.
Sekisui Chemical opened a design center in Shanghai in July 2026, operated by Sekisui Interlayer (Suzhou) Co., Ltd., to support automotive manufacturers with CMF design, simulations, sample production and prototype evaluation. The center combines the group's laminated-glass interlayer technology with Chinese mobility design trends and is intended to support development from concept through mass-production studies.
Sakata Seed Corporation opened the Ishigaki Research Farm in Ishigaki, Okinawa, on June 21, 2026. The facility will research vegetable and flower varieties under subtropical conditions, accelerating development of heat- and weather-resistant varieties for tropical markets.
Mitsui Fudosan completed Mitsui Link Lab Toyocho 1 on July 31, 2026, a leasable wet-lab and office facility in Tokyo's Koto Ward with BSL2-capable specifications and hazardous-material storage. The company also began development of the planned Mitsui Link Lab Toyocho 2, expanding its Kanto-area life-science lab network to 10 sites including planned properties.
Riken Vitamin will build the Material Nexus Lab, a new R&D facility for chemical-product additives at its Tokyo Plant in Itabashi, Tokyo. The facility will consolidate R&D functions from the Osaka Plant and subsidiary Kenseido, with completion planned for March 2028 and operations beginning in April 2028.
CULTA will establish new research and development facilities in Kashiwa, Chiba, and Tsukuba, Ibaraki, focused on climate-adapted crop breeding, cultivation technology and stable seedling supply. The facilities will include sunlight-powered and artificial-light plant factories, laboratories, cultivation research greenhouses and a nursery building, with operations scheduled to begin sequentially from September 2026.
Lintec will invest approximately ¥20 billion to build the Semiconductor Solution Lab in Itoshima, Fukuoka, a co-development site for process materials, direct materials and related equipment used in semiconductor mid-stage processes. Completion is planned for October 2028; a location agreement with Fukuoka Prefecture and the city is to be signed on 21 August 2026.
Hokkaido University's Semiconductor Frontier Education and Research Organization (IFERS) held the opening ceremony for its 'Semiconductor Prototyping Lab' on the university campus in Sapporo on July 29, 2026, offering hands-on training in semiconductor manufacturing processes with an ISO Class 5/7 cleanroom. The lab is supported by the Cabinet Office's regional university and industry creation grant program together with Hokkaido, Sapporo and Chitose, with full fit-out expected by the end of fiscal 2027.
Seed Co., a contact lens manufacturer, disclosed a partial change to the previously announced acquisition of fixed assets related to the second-phase construction of Building No. 4 at its Konosu Research Center. Specific revised terms were not detailed in the available text.
Samson Co., Ltd., a Kagawa-based maker of boilers and food processing equipment, will construct a new R&D/testing facility at its Kannonji, Kagawa headquarters site to develop new food equipment products and labor-saving robots for food factories amid labor shortages. The company has been designated as eligible for subsidies under Kagawa Prefecture's corporate investment ordinance, with operations expected to begin in April 2027.
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