Weed Barrier Fabric has entered the Japanese Ministry of Land and Transportation New Technology Information System (NETIS)

  NETIS is the Transport Ministry order to effectively use new technologies to share and provide information related to the new technologies for the purpose of providing new information technology system (New Technology Information System: NETIS). NETIS is the use of the intranet and Internet Infrastructure and Transport Ministry's database system. Heisei 18 years from the beginning of August 1st "public construction and other new technologies make use of the system," the official run.

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