What Eco-Green does

Eco Green Group (エコグリーングループ), founded May 1997 in Tokyo and now headquartered in Chuo-ku under a pure holding company structure (Eco Green Holdings Co., Ltd.), is a vertically integrated Japanese wood biomass resource-recovery operator. The group collects waste wood from construction sites, demolition sites, warehouses, and factories using a fleet of more than 40 trucks, processes it at three owned plants — EG Hachioji (352.8 t/day), Tokan Recycle Yachimata (147.6 t/day), and EG Kashiwa — and sells the resulting chips as fuel for biomass boilers, raw material for paper and particle-board manufacturers, and bedding for livestock farms. Revenue is generated primarily through transaction-fee chip sales and waste collection/transportation services, supplemented by circular business consulting for 19 categories of industrial waste.

The group operates six wholly-owned subsidiaries (Eco-Green, EGL for logistics, EG Forest for forestry, EG Hachioji, Tokan Recycle, EG Kashiwa) and holds industrial waste collection/transport permits across 13 prefectures spanning Kanto, Tohoku, Chubu, and Hokuriku, as well as FIT-certified renewable energy operator status and ISO 14001 certification since 2006. EGL's logistics arm integrates GPS vehicle management, digital tachographs, and JWNET electronic manifests across the fleet.

EG Forest, established April 2021, extends the value chain upstream into forest regeneration, managing more than 200 hectares and — as of August 2025 — operating Japan's first forest management plan using fast-growing eucalyptus trees, certified by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and selected by NEDO in May 2025. The group also maintains municipal partnerships (Tomisato, Yachimata, Sosa, Soka) for woody biomass utilization and decarbonization initiatives. Eco Green Holdings is controlled by ENEOS Renewable Energy Co., Ltd. following a capital and business partnership in October 2015 that led to the group's delisting from the Tokyo Stock Exchange PRO Market. Group headcount stood at 143 employees as of April 2025.

Name

Eco-Green

Legal name

株式会社エコグリーン

Website

https://eco-g.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1997

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Eco Green Group is a Tokyo-based, vertically integrated wood biomass recycler that collects construction and demolition waste wood via a 40+ truck fleet, processes it into chips at three plants (~500 t/day combined), and sells chips to biomass energy, paper, board, and livestock customers across 13 Japanese prefectures, with an upstream forest regeneration arm.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Waste Wood Recycling and Woody Biomass Processing

NAICS

Waste Collection (56211), Wood Product Manufacturing (321), Timber Tract Operations (11311)

SIC

Refuse Systems (4953), Forestry (800), Lumber & Wood Products (No Furniture) (2400)

akta.pro primary industry

Wood Waste Processing & Recycling (Mulch/Biomass) (BPALAJAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Wood Chipping, Residue Processing & Biomass Feedstock (IMAMABAG), Biomass Loading, Handling & Transloading (Chip Vans, Containers) (AFAMAJAK), Chip Storage & Pile Management (AFAMAJAJ)

Keywords

• Wood biomass recycling
• Waste wood collection
• Biomass fuel supply
• Forest regeneration services
• Circular economy consulting

Headquarters

HQ city

Chuo

HQ country

Japan

HQ region

Asia

Offices11 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Woody Biomass Sales: Collection of waste wood from various sites, manufacturing wood chips through owned and partner processing facilities, and selling to end users. Products include fuel chips for biomass boilers, board material chips for particle board manufacturers, and bedding materials for livestock farms.
2. Circular Business Consulting: Consulting services for optimal waste disposal methods, connecting clients with appropriate recycling plants and processing facilities. Offers cost-reduction consulting for workplace 4S (sort, set in order, shine, standardize) costs.
3. Waste Collection and Transportation: Collection of industrial waste including wood debris, brick, fiber waste, and various other waste types using the company's own fleet of over 40 trucks.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Eco Green Group collects construction and demolition wood waste from building sites, demolition sites, warehouses, and factories using its own fleet of 40+ trucks, then processes the waste wood into wood chips through sorting, shredding, magnetic separation, and screening at three owned processing plants. The wood chips are sold to paper manufacturers and particle board makers as raw material, to biomass boiler operators as fuel, and to livestock farms as bedding material. The group also provides industrial waste disposal consulting for non-wood waste streams and operates a forest regeneration business via its EG Forest subsidiary.

Product overview

Eco-Green Group operates a unified wood biomass resource circulation system centered on three interconnected business lines: (1) Wood Biomass Re-Resourceization, which spans the Tōkan Recycle Plant (147.6 t/day), EG Hachioji Plant (352.8 t/day), and EG Kashiwa Plant, collectively collecting construction and demolition wood waste, processing it through sorting, shredding, magnetic separation, and screening into wood chips, and selling these chips as Fuel Chips (biomass boiler fuel), Particle Board Raw Material Chips (to paper/board manufacturers), and Sawdust/Bedding Material Chips (to livestock farms); (2) Circular Business Consulting, which recommends optimal recycling-oriented disposal methods for 19 categories of industrial waste beyond wood, leveraging a network of certified partner processors; and (3) Forest Regeneration, managed by EG Forest, covering the full silvicultural cycle of grass cutting, felling/harvesting, and replanting, including pioneering early-growth eucalyptus forest management certified by Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (August 2025) and supported by NEDO. These three lines are connected by EGL's logistics fleet of 40+ trucks — integrated with GPS vehicle management, digital tachographs, and electronic manifests (JWNET) — and by shared stock yards (Makabe, Kamisu, Ōsakae, Tomisato Forest) across Ibaraki and Chiba prefectures.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Wood Biomass Re-Resourceization Business (木質バイオマス再資源化事業)
• Fuel Chips (Biomass Boiler Fuel)

Quantifiable outcome

• EG Forest forest management area exceeded 200 hectares
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered flagship, regional, core and secondary.

• NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization)flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 May 2025NEDO-selected demonstration project for eucalyptus-based 'Energy Forest Creation'. EG Forest's project was selected under the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry jurisdiction for innovative forest management using fast-growing trees.
• Soka City, Saitama (草加市)regionalStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 May 2023Joint new employee training conducted in June 2026. Partnership for workforce development and regional cooperation.
• Tomisato City, Chiba (富里市)regionalStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 November 2022Agreement signed in November 2022 for promoting woody biomass utilization. City-level partnership for forest management and biomass energy development.
• Yachimata City, Chiba (八街市)regionalStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 November 2022Agreement for accepting forestry residues and promoting woody biomass utilization. Collaboration with city government to increase biomass energy production.
• Sosa City, Chiba (匝瑳市)regionalStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 November 2022Sosa City selected as decarbonization leading area in November 2023. Partnership supporting regional carbon neutrality initiatives.
• University of Tokyo Forest (東京大学演習林)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 July 2022Partnership for sustainable energy forest creation demonstration project. Collaboration with University of Tokyo's forest research facilities for advancing forest management techniques.
• Sinanen Eco Work Chiba Recycling Center (シナネンエコワーク株式会社 千葉リサイクルセンター)secondaryChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorPartner company factory for wood processing. Located in Chiba. Cooperating company for wood intermediate processing services.
• Sinanen Eco Work Shiraoka Recycling Center (シナネンエコワーク株式会社 白岡リサイクルセンター)secondaryChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorPartner company factory for wood processing. Located in Saitama. Cooperating company for wood intermediate processing services.
• Nojima Sagamihara Rise (ノジマ相模原ライズ)regionalGTM or Marketing PartnerOfficial sponsor of American football team. Supports community activation through sports and youth development programs including Nojima Sagamihara Rise Jr. team for children from preschool to middle school.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves12 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Others

• Nippon Paper Industries: Nippon Paper Industries is a major Japanese pulp and paper manufacturer that consumes wood chips as raw material, making it a direct end-market customer profile for Eco-Green's board/paper chip line. It is comparable as the downstream offtaker at the same value-chain stage Eco-Green supplies.
• Takuma Co., Ltd. (タクマ): Takuma designs and constructs biomass boilers and waste-to-energy plants in Japan. It is comparable to Eco-Green because its installed biomass boilers define the demand pool for Eco-Green's fuel chips, and it represents the enabling equipment-side counterpart of the same wood biomass value chain.
• Daiken Corporation (大建工業): Daiken Corporation is a leading Japanese manufacturer of particle board, MDF, and other wood-based building materials. It is comparable to Eco-Green because it consumes the exact chip specification Eco-Green produces for board manufacturers, representing one of Eco-Green's named end-user categories.

Direct peers

• Toyokuni (豊國エコソリューションズ): Toyokuni is a Japanese C&D waste management and recycling company focused on construction debris, wood waste, and recycled aggregates. It directly overlaps with Eco-Green's core C&D wood collection and chipping operations in Kanto and serves paper, board, and biomass end markets with comparable scale and customer types.
• EF-ON (エフオン): EF-ON operates biomass power plants in Japan that consume woody biomass fuel chips, making it a direct downstream customer profile for Eco-Green's fuel chip product. It is comparable as a biomass-fired energy business on the demand side of Eco-Green's chip supply chain and operates several plants in eastern Japan overlapping Eco-Green's geography.

Broad incumbents

• Sumitomo Heavy Industries Environment & Energy: Sumitomo Heavy Industries' environment and energy business provides waste processing and biomass energy equipment and services in Japan. It is comparable to Eco-Green as a broader player in the same waste-to-energy and biomass ecosystem, though it operates more on the equipment/EPC side rather than waste collection.
• DOWA Eco-System (DOWA Holdings): DOWA Eco-System is a Japanese waste management, recycling, and environmental services subsidiary of DOWA Holdings, operating permitted collection and treatment facilities nationwide. It is a broad incumbent comparable to Eco-Green in C&D and industrial waste handling, but at substantially larger scale and across a wider set of waste streams.
• Daiei Environment Group: Daiei Environment Group is one of Japan's largest waste management and recycling operators, handling industrial, construction, and municipal waste with a national footprint of permitted facilities. It is broadly comparable to Eco-Green because both operate multi-prefecture C&D waste collection, intermediate processing, and recycling value chains, though Daiei is materially larger and more diversified across waste streams.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks3 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance6 records

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Subsidiaries6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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