Yokohama Rubber began supplying BluEarth-GT AE51 tires in February for use on FAW Toyota’s new EV sedan “bZ3,” which was launched in China. The “bZ3” is a joint development by FAW Toyota Motor and BYD Toyota EV Technology, a JV established by Toyota and BYD. The car is not available in Japan. The BluEarth-GT AE51 is a tire with high...
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%...
On May 30, President Kazushi Shimizu of Sumitomo Riko announced the Sumitomo Riko Group Vision 2029 (2029V) and the Sumitomo Riko Group Medium-Term Management Plan 2025 (2025P). Under 2025P, which begins in fiscal 2023, the company aims to increase consolidated net sales from 541 billion yen ($3.87 billion) in fiscal 2022 to 620 billion yen and business profit from 17.9...
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...
Bridgestone has been selected for the fourth consecutive year as “Digital Transformation Stock (DX Brand)”, an initiative by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), the Tokyo Stock Exchange, and the Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan (IPA). DX Stocks are companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange that are engaged in Digital Transformation (DX), a process of drastically transforming their...
