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...
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...
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...
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...
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%...
Mitsui Chemicals and CrowdChem have jointly developed a technology that can consistently perform everything from the extraction of technological information that will be useful in the future to the search for new materials, utilizing AI technology. This will make it possible to improve the efficiency of new material search using natural language processing. Furthermore, by combining past achievements with generative...
