Denka announced that its U.S. subsidiary, Denka Performance Elastomer (DPE), will not resume operations at its chloroprene rubber (CR) manufacturing facility, currently shut down for scheduled maintenance, and will instead place it on indefinite suspension. The company faced significant profit deterioration due to DPE’s struggling CR business, recording a special loss of approximately 16.1 billion yen ($107.33 million) for fixed…