Yokohama Rubber donated 224 studless tires for passenger cars to the Japan Car Sharing Association as part of its efforts to support car sharing in the region and assist in disaster reconstruction. The donated tires were replaced by students as part of their car maintenance classes. 132 tires were installed on vehicles at Akita College of Technology on November 6...
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Conveyor belt and automotive conductive belt manufacturer Bando Chemical has in December begun operating a solar power generation system on the roof of its subsidiary in China, Bando Belt (Tianjin). The move is part of the company’s efforts to achieve carbon neutrality and to utilize clean energy. The newly installed solar power generation system has a generating capacity of 741...
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The year 2023 was a year in which the rubber industry was greatly affected by the surrounding environment. The easing of semiconductor shortages led to a recovery in automobile production, the main source of demand, but higher raw material prices, electricity and other utility costs, logistics costs, labor costs, and various other costs affected business performance. The rubber industry in...
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Zeon’s elastomer materials business division posted sales of 104.73 billion yen ($730.50 million) in the first half (April-September) of the fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, down 6.0% year-on-year, and operating profit of 3.64 billion yen, down 60.9%. General-purpose synthetic rubber is on a recovery trend compared to the second half of fiscal 2022 (October-March). While Japanese domestic sales remained...
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Bridgestone has formed a research and development team with Tohoku University to develop innovative, data-driven materials by utilizing Nanoterrace, a next-generation synchrotron radiation facility being built on Tohoku University’s new Aobayama campus. The base of the team will be the Green Cross Tech Research Center established by the university. The research center is an industry-academia co-creation innovation center with the...
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Yokohama Rubber, NEC and Sampa Kogyo received the 2023 Defense Structure Improvement Foundation Award from the Defense Structure Improvement Foundation of Japan for the development of the Nora-50 (also known as Unicorn) composite communications antenna for destroyers. The award, sponsored by the Defense Acquisition Agency, is presented to individuals or groups that have made particularly outstanding achievements in the development...
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