Elastomix Co. Ltd., the largest manufacturer and refiner of rubber in Japan and majority-owned by JSR Corp. (TYO:4185), predicts there…...
Materials
Shin-Etsu Polymer Achieves Three Straight Years of Sales And Profit Growth
Shin-Etsu Polymer Co. Ltd. (TYO:7970) has posted 75 billion yen (US $6.87 billion) of sales for the year through the…...
Ube Industries Places Strategic Focus on Butadiene Rubber, Plans Capacity Expansion
Ube Industries Ltd. (TYO:4208) has announced that the fiscal year commencing April 2016 is the first of three years for…...
Denka Targets Chloroprene Rubber Sales of 50 Billion Yen
Denka Co. Ltd. (TYO:4061) aims to quickly achieve sales of 50 billion yen ($459 million) in the chloroprene rubber (CR)…...
VRG Japan to Sell Vietnamese Military-made Natural Rubber to Japanese Tire Makers
VRG Japan Rubber Export JSC is progressing in preparations to sell natural rubber that is manufactured by the Vietnamese military…...
Sumitomo Chemical Looks to Expand S–SBR Sales in Europe
Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd. (TYO:4005) is continuing to make inroads on the solution styrene butadiene rubber (S–SBR) market in Europe…....

