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Mitsui Chemicals Honored at 22nd Green Sustainability Chemistry Awards

on June 22, 2023 in Industry

Mitsui Chemicals received the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Award at the 22nd Green Sustainable Chemistry Award (GSC Award) of the Japan Association for Chemical Innovation (JACI) for its “Practical Application of Polyurethanes Using Bio-based C5 Isocyanates and Their Derivatives”. The GSC Award recognizes outstanding achievements that contribute to the promotion of green and sustainable chemistry, and the “Minister...

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Toyoda Gosei Invests in Wastewater Treatment Tech Start-up

on June 21, 2023 in Industry

Toyoda Gosei has invested in Friend Microbe, a Nagoya University startup that is developing a wastewater treatment business using microorganisms to reduce waste generated in production processes. The wastewater treatment system established by Friend Microbe uses microorganisms to break down animal and vegetable oil used in food factories in a short time, and has been proven to reduce oily industrial...

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Synthetic Rubber Sales Struggling, Recovery in Second Half or Later?

on June 16, 2023 in Industry

While Japanese domestic automobile production is on a certain recovery track, synthetic rubber sales are struggling. In addition to the economic slowdown in the U.S. and Europe, and demand in China not picking up as much as expected, a major factor is inventory adjustment. According to a synthetic rubber manufacturer, “inventory adjustment will probably take the entire first half of...

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Kato Sansho Acquires Shares in Indian Synthetic Resin Compounding Company

on June 14, 2023 in Industry

Rubber raw materials trading company Kato Sansho signed on May 22 a third-party capital increase agreement with Indo-Japan Polymers (Chennai, India), a manufacturer of synthetic resin compounds, mainly colour masterbatches, acquiring a 53% stake in the company. Combined with the Kato Office, which has already acquired shares in the company, this means that the company has acquired 84% of the...

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Bridgestone Launches Effort to Generate Carbon Black From Used Tires

on June 12, 2023 in Industry

Bridgestone has installed a demonstration unit at the Bridgestone Innovation Park in Kodaira City, Tokyo, for precision pyrolysis (oilification) of used tires. The move is part of an initiative to generate decomposed oil and recycled carbon black from used tires by thermally decomposing them. The project is one of two R&D themes under the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development...

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Denka and Transform Materials to Establish Low-Carbon Acetylene Chain

on June 9, 2023 in Industry

Denka has decided to conduct joint research with Transform Materials (TM), an American venture company, and to introduce facilities developed by TM for the purpose of establishing technology to realize low-carbon production of acetylene. The companies held a signing ceremony on May 23. Under its eight-year management plan Mission 2030, which started in fiscal 2023, Denka aims to achieve 100%...

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