Innovation

Nitta Develops CFRP Products for Industrial Applications Using Namd

Rubber and resin products manufacturer Nitta has developed patented carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) products for the industrial field using its proprietary CNT composite technology Namd. Since fiscal 2017, Namd has been used in many CFRP products in the sports field, such as tennis rackets and golf club shafts, due to its excellent properties, including vibration damping and speed-dependent relaxation...

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Zeon Develops Material Achieving Various Visual Effects Using Light Reflections

Zeon has developed a broadband cholesteric liquid crystal material that can achieve various visual effects using light reflection, based on its proprietary technology cultivated in the optical film business. The product is a cholesteric liquid crystal, a structure in which the reflected light wavelength is arranged in a spiral shape, and the color of the reflected light can be changed...

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Nitta Develops Biomass Nylon Tube

Nitta launched in March Biomass Nylon Tube, a product made primarily from plant-derived nylon. Demand for biomass products has been increasing in recent years on back of rising environmental awareness. In line with this, Nitta has been developing and marketing biomass nylon tubing as an environmentally friendly product as part of its various efforts to help realize a sustainable society....

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Sumitomo Rubber Develops Tire Aerodynamics Simulation Technology

Sumitomo Rubber has developed Tire Aerodynamics Simulation, a simulation technology for the tire development process. In addition to reducing rolling resistance of tires, it is extremely important to reduce aerodynamic drag around tires in order to improve fuel efficiency (electric power consumption) of EVs. By visualizing the airflow near the tires of a moving vehicle through a proprietary simulation that...

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Nagase Chemtex Develops Film Adhesive for Post-Vulcanization Diene Rubber

Chemical products manufacturer Nagase Chemtex has developed a film adhesive for post-vulcanization rubber, which enables adhesion between metals and diene rubber such as natural rubber, butadiene rubber (BR), and low nitrile rubber (NBR) after vulcanization. The adhesive does not require primer treatment, which is necessary for liquid-type vulcanized adhesives, and the process can be shortened. Furthermore, it does not contain...

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Zeon Develops World’s First Microorganism-Based Carbon Nanotube Degradation Method

Zeon Corporation has in collaboration with a research group led by Professor Katsutoshi Hori of the Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Tokai National University Organization, and a Nagoya University venture company, Friend Microbe, developed the world’s first new method to efficiently degrade carbon nanotubes (CNT) using microorganisms. Until now, it has been believed that CNTs, an inorganic material composed...

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