Daicel-Evonik Ltd.’s Vestakeep Care brand of polyether ether ketone (PEEK) resin has been selected for use in a high-performance plastic…...
Industry
Chloroprene Rubber Shortage Intensifies Worldwide, Affecting Japanese Firms
Chloroprene rubber (CR) is continuing to face a global shortage. Japanese CR manufacturers are already at their limit, holding down…...
Half of Japan’s Rubber Manufacturers Miss New Graduate Hiring Target
A recent Japan Rubber Weekly survey has found that, between the 23 major rubber and synthetic rubber manufacturers who responded,…...
CSJ Recognizes Late Professor’s Historical Synthetic Rubber Invention as Chemical Heritage
The Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ) has selected synthetic rubber created using monovinyl acetylene (MVA) as one of three historical…...
Rubber Unions Increase Demands on Tire Manufacturers
Member unions of the Japanese Rubber Workers Union Confederation (JRC) have submitted their wage demands at the group’s annual spring…...
Kuraray Announces Plan to Form Butadiene Derivatives JV With PTTGC, Sumitomo
Kuraray Co. Ltd. (TYO:3405) announced on March 7 that it has inked a joint venture agreement with Sumitomo Corp. (TYO:8053)…...
