Our lab's grand design proposal activities have received the Good Design Award in the 2025 Good Design Awards, organized by the Japan Institute of Design Promotion.

We exhibited at the Circular Economy Laboratory hosted by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry at Expo 2025 Osaka-Kansai.

The Circular Economy Association has announced the establishment of a committee to discuss and review standards related to CE proposed by the lab.

We participated in the cross-disciplinary theme 'The Role of Mechanical Engineering in Realizing a Circular Economy' at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers.

A discussion paper on the Circular Value-added Productivity indicator (CVP), which visualizes the cost-effectiveness of the Circular Economy, has been published.

We introduced our lab's initiatives at the Life Cycle Engineering Committee of the Japan Society for Precision Engineering.

A special contribution titled 'Considerations for Selecting Indicators to Achieve a Circular Economy' has been published in the monthly magazine 'Environmental Management'.