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IHI’s Ishikari Works will retrofit an ammonia co-firing boiler package for a Hokkaido paper mill, booking engineering hours as METI pushes co-firing pilots ahead of wider ammonia fuel adoption.
Tokyo Gas locked in additional LNG tender slots for October–December delivery as yen weakness and autumn factory restarts push industrial gas nominations higher, while METI keeps LNG stockpile targets in focus ahead of winter.
Kansai Electric is renegotiating how LNG-linked fuel surcharges pass through to factories on non-calendar meter cycles, after September’s minus-2.80-yen high-voltage adjustment collided with mid-month reads at Osaka industrial parks.
JR West is tightening reserved-seat yield rules on Sanyo Shinkansen and limited expresses after Silver Week’s return peak filled fewer inbound slots than planners modeled, even with every Nozomi running all-reserved.
Yakult Honsha is merging day and night bottling crews at its Fujisawa Shonan cosmetics plant after label suppliers tightened PET shrink-film allocations, slowing changeovers on the Beautiens line.
Mitsubishi Estate is resetting rent-free and fit-out concessions on two Marunouchi blocks after a cluster of finance tenants handed back floors, even as portfolio vacancy stays below one per cent.
