The Japanese Red Cross Society produces blood products at 50 locations nationwide, but is currently in the process of consolidating these facilities into around 20 centers. The Kyushu Blood Management Center will be the first such center, and construction of it began in April this year. In January 2008 it will start production for the four northern prefectures of Kyushu (Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki, and Oita) and then similarly for the three southern prefectures (Kumamoto, Miyazaki, and Kagoshima) in April of the same year. SANYO is using this consolidation project as an opportunity to boost sales to the society, and aims to secure orders from 60% of the new centers. This order has provided the society with a total of 23 refrigerators. Nine are prefab freezers for cold storing samples, blood products, etc. at -30 degrees Celsius. Three are express freezers for quick freezing blood products to -35 degrees Celsius. Another three are prefab refrigerators for storing items such as chemical reagents, while the other eight are container rooms or freezer rooms. The refrigerators will be delivered one by one between June and October this year.
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