Sales are strong for Zeon Corp.’s (TYO:4205) hydrogenated nitrile rubber (HNBR) Zetpol elastomers with improved heat resistance, which can withstand…...
Materials
Asahi Kasei Publicly Unveils Fifth-Generation S-SBR at IRC 2016
Asahi Kasei Corp. (TYO:3407) publicly unveiled its fifth-generation solution styrene butadiene rubber (S-SBR) during the Rubber & Elastomer Technical Exhibition…...
Tokai Carbon Increases Price for Carbon Black as Oil Continues to Rise
Tokai Carbon Co. Ltd. (TYO:5301) has increased the price of its carbon black products by 3 yen per kilogram. The…...
JSR Increases S-SBR Sales by 15% in Second Quarter
JSR Corp. (TYO:4185) has seen an improvement in the sales of its solution styrene butadiene rubber (S-SBR), with sales volume…...
Natural Rubber Import Volume Up Nearly 9% in August
Japan’s import volume of natural rubber in August increased 8.8 percent year-on-year, while the import value decreased 19 percent year-on-year,…...
JSR Downwardly Revises Projected Business Results for 2016
Major Japanese synthetic rubber manufaturer JSR Corp. (TYO:4185) has downwardly revised its projected business results for fiscal 2016. Projected sales…...
