In April, Yokohama Rubber and the Yokohama Magokoro Fund, a social contribution fund created by Yokohama Rubber employees, donated a total of 900,000 yen ($6,430) to Japan Hair Donation & Charity (JHD&C) to support its activities. This is the third donation to JHD&C since last year. JHD&C was established in September 2009 as Japan’s first organization specializing in hair donation...
Bridgestone and Kyushu University signed an organization-responsive collaboration in March and will begin a comprehensive collaboration aimed at solving apparent and latent issues. Both parties have been engaged in advanced joint research on rubber materials for tires, and are now partnering up to implement comprehensive initiatives including joint research and human resource development. They will work together to realize the...
The business results for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2023, for rubber and resin-related companies are now available, and among the 31 companies, 14 companies, or nearly half, achieved a record high in either net sales, operating income, ordinary income, or net income. It can be said that many of the companies posted solid performance growth, but automobile production,...
Shipment volume of rubber sheets (plates) may be showing signs of recovery: after falling 10.2% year-on-year in 2022 according to data compiled by the Japan Rubber Manufacturers Association, shipments turned positive in the January-March period of 2023, rising 1.6% year-on-year to 4,242 tons. Although automobile production did not fully recover in 2022 and was affected by inventory adjustments of parts,...
Last year, the production of rubber chemicals and materials was sluggish due to the automobile production cutbacks caused by the shortage of semiconductors and the difficulty in obtaining various raw materials from overseas and their rising prices, especially since the second half of the year, resulting in a downward trend in rubber chemicals and materials. Typical products of these rubber...
Yokohama Rubber, in cooperation with Kanagawa Chuo Kotsu (Kanagawa Central Transportation Company), began a demonstration test of its tire pressure sensor and tire air pressure remote access system (TPRS) on EV buses in March. The experiment uses EV buses operated by Kanagawa Chuo Kotsu in Hiratsuka City. Yokohama Rubber offers tire solution services for transportation companies, including the HiTES tire...
