The category-based shipping volume of synthetic rubber for January to March increased to 434,413 tons, up 4.4 percent from the…...
Materials
Tokyo Zairyo Achieves Seventh Straight Year of Record Ordinary Profit
Zeon Corp. (TYO:4205) subsidiary Tokyo Zairyo Co. Ltd. has announced its results for the year ending March 2017. The raw…...
Mitsubishi Chemical Launches New Grade of TPC for Automotive Use
Chemical maker Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. has developed a new grade of Tefabloc, a thermoplastic copolyester elastomer (TPC). Tefabloc has TPC’s…...
Tokai Carbon to Raise Fine-Carbon Product Prices by 15%
Tokai Carbon Co. Ltd. (TYO:5301) has announced an increase of 15 percent over its current sales prices for fine-carbon, special-graphite…...
Zeon Wins 2016 SPSJ Award for Asymmetric SIS Copolymer
Zeon Corp. (TYO:4205) received the fiscal 2016 Society of Polymer Science Japan (SPSJ) Award for Outstanding Achievement in Polymer Science…...
New Kuraray Plastics President Talks Business Transformation, Strategy for Expansion
Appointed as the new president of Kuraray Plastics Co. Ltd. this past March, Takashi Nakajima says that his role is…...

