Integrate technologies as a customized package

If your component technology is unable to address the needs of your foreign customer, we integrate technologies/equipment/products and even maintenance services available from different companies to create a customized package offered to your customer. This attempt aims to increase collaborations among Japanese companies, and enable increased business opportunities in overseas markets.

Assist technology renovation to address needs

If your company needs to renovate any technology or product to address the needs of your Asian customer, we introduce to you a university, research institute or industry-academia consortium that can provide you with technical support for such renovation.

Assist in surveys for confirming marketability

If your company needs to confirm the feasibility or marketability of any technology or product to be offered to Asian customers, our financial aid such as the “Kitakyushu subsidy for potential environmental technologies (feasibility study)” and our pilot shop in Dalian, China are available.

Assist verification testing

If your company needs to verify the performance or effectiveness of any technology or product to be offered to Asian customers, we help you find a factory, laboratory or other location for verification testing in the target market. City of Kitakyushu has exchanges with Asian cities, and we could take advantage of such network.

Assist in submission of application for subsidy

If your company applies for a subsidy available from a public organization such as the national government, JETRO, or NEDO, we can provide professional advice.

Provide financial or intellectual aid

With support from the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), we can provide information on overseas business opportunities in environmental fields. We can also financially support your company, in cooperation with local financial institutions, to assist your efforts to expand into overseas markets. (Such support includes coordinated financing by JBIC together with local financial institutions, and the use of a public financing program for trade promotion.)

On-site assistance through overseas offices

The city of Kitakyushu has overseas offices in Dalian and Shanghai, and we can provide diverse on-site assistance through these offices if your company is looking for business opportunities in any environmental field in either market. Such assistance includes setting up liaisons with local authorities and searching for partners in the target market.

Sending a delegate

We can send a delegate to your target market in Asia on a regular basis to find market needs or business matchmaking opportunities. When specific business tie-up opportunities are found, we will continue follow-up support to your satisfaction.

Develop business assistance tools

To help your company find collaboration opportunities with other businesses, we can develop and make available to you a database on carbon reduction technologies owned by businesses, including Kitakyushu-based companies in particular. Also, if your company is planning to expand into Asian markets, we can collect environment-related information on such markets, including on area-specific climate / ecological conditions and environmental laws.