Zeon’s Tokuyama Plant in Shunan City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, participated in the Blue Carbon Offset Credit System utilizing J Blue Credits certified and issued by the Japan Blue Economy Association (JBE). In recent years, blue carbon has been attracting attention as a CO2 sink, and efforts to preserve and restore blue carbon ecosystems are underway in many areas. One such example...
Bando subsidiary Aimedic MMT has launched on April 1 an absorbable bone regeneration material marketed as e=Bone. The material uses the results of a research project for the development of artificial bones in industry-academia collaboration with the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, and the Department of Materials Production Science, Osaka University Graduate School of Engineering....
Sumitomo Riko, in collaboration with Ginreilab, has completed a Microphysiological Systems (MPS) prototype, which can be used to confirm the efficacy and evaluate the safety of pharmaceuticals and other products, the company revealed at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Regenerative Medicine. In recent years, the global trend has been to verify the efficacy and safety of...
Yokohama Rubber said on March 25 that the European Commission has completed its review of the company’s acquisition of all shares in Trelleborg Wheel Systems, a Sweden-based company that produces and sells tires for agricultural machinery and industrial vehicles. The approval was unconditional. The U.K. competition authorities are currently reviewing the transaction, and their decision is expected to be announced...
Demand for rubber hoses has been improving. According to the Japan Rubber Hose Manufacturers Association, the value of shipments in 2022 was 138.64 billion yen ($1.04 billion), up 0.4% and thus almost unchanged from the previous year. However, high-pressure hoses remained at a high level throughout the year, and automotive hoses, which account for 70% of the total, recovered in...
The Japan Glove Manufacturers Association has published its 2022 glove sales volume statistics for the Japanese domestic market. Household glove sales in 2022 remained flat at 83.19 million pairs, down 1% from the previous year. Only rubber gloves grew by 6% year-on-year, but none of the categories recovered to the 2019 levels prior to the coronavirus pandemic. In 2020, sales...
