Sun Metalon was recently presented with the Mizuho Innovation Award 2024.4Q, sponsored by Mizuho Bank

SUN METALON was presented with the Mizuho Innovation Award 2024.4Q by Mizuho Bank in January 2025. We were awarded for our technical capabilities, which enabled our products to be delivered to major manufacturers, and for our management structure, which is designed to expand business through a global structure.

What is the Mizuho Innovation Award?

Since 2017, Mizuho Bank, one of the largest banks in Japan, has selected eligible companies on a quarterly basis to recognise entities with promising innovations, business model superiority, team strength and growth potential. Award-winning companies receive support in the form of a video presentation introducing their business to large corporations and business matching services.

Masato Kaneda, Operating Executive Officer, Deputy Head of Retail & Business Banking Division, Innovative Startups Coordination of Mizuho Bank said, “The metals industry is a CO2-intensive industry where decarbonisation is not easy. SUN METALON is realising emissions reductions by recycling metal with its unique heating technology.

The Mizuho Innovation Award was presented to SUN METALON in recognition of the company's technological and management capabilities, which have earned us deliveries to major manufacturers and allowed us to expand its business globally. We have high hopes for the further spread of metal recycling technology throughout the manufacturing industry and the expansion of the recycling-oriented supply chain in the future,” commented Masato Kaneda.