Water Tour of Kansai Ventures creating new technologies TOKUSHIMA Prefecture Tokushima City New Applications for Cutting with Water Adding abrasives to the water and using a reinforced nozzle enable the water cutter to cut iron. This also helps to make the device more compact. Photo: The Anan College of Technology K.K. Wing, located in Hanoura Town in the south of Tokushima Prefecture, has, together with The Anan College of Technology and other groups, developed and patented a new device it calls a water cutter. The device, which can be operated nonstop for 500 to 600 hours, is used to cut a variety of materials. Wing received a subsidy from the prefecture as part of the prefectural government's effort to promote business startups. In 1997, Tokushima Prefecture boasted the third highest amount of startup investment in the country, and definite results have been obtained as can be seen in the increasing numbers of new technologies developed and persons employed at corporations receiving funding. Tokushima Prefecture Industrial Promotion Division, New Industry Development Section TEL 088-621-2320 BACK NEXT All images Copyright. 1999 Kansai International Public Relations Promotion Office. All Rights Reserved.