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Kojima to release appliances jointly developed with GE

TOKYO, Japan - Kojima Co., a large-scale discount retailer of home electronics, said June 25 it will release on July 18 a refrigerator and two other appliances (in photo) jointly developed with General Electric Co. (GE) of the United States. The 320-liter refrigerator, free of environmentally harmful chlorofluorocarbon, will be offered for 128,000 yen, Kojima said.

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Group develops energy-saving device to detoxify asbestos

MAEBASHI, Japan - A group of researchers in Gunma Prefecture said on June 3 that they have developed an energy-saving device (seen in a photo released by the group) to decompose and detoxify asbestos that uses about 80 percent less energy than the conventional method. The equipment treat asbestos with sodium chloride and the byproducts of chlorofluorocarbon destruction before heating it at the temperature of 700 C, about half of 1,500 C needed in the existing method. (Kyodo)

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Kojima to release appliances jointly developed with GE

TOKYO, Japan - Kojima Co., a large-scale discount retailer of home electronics, said June 25 it will release on July 18 a refrigerator and two other appliances (in photo) jointly developed with General Electric Co. (GE) of the United States. The 320-liter refrigerator, free of environmentally harmful chlorofluorocarbon, will be offered for 128,000 yen, Kojima said. (Kyodo)