Denka Co. Ltd. (TYO:4061) has released an approximately eight-minute video documenting its project to supply diethyl malonate for use in Avigan, an antiviral drug being touted as a potential treatment for COVID-19. The video has been made available on the company’s website. The video brings to life the story of how Denka, responding to a government request, managed to get...
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Bridgestone Corp. (TYO:5108) has begun supplying its Turanza T005A tires as OE for the new Toyota Mirai fuel cell vehicle (FCV), which launched last December in Japan. Designed using Bridgestone’s proprietary simulation technology, the Turanza T005A offers an optimized tread pattern arrangement, rigidity and contact patch, ensuring a quiet and comfortable ride. Further, as a product under the Turanza brand...
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Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd. (TYO:5110) has opened the Nayoro Indoor Ice Field (NICE), a new on-ice testing facility for winter tires. This has been set up as part of the company’s Nayoro Tire Proving Ground in Nayoro, Hokkaido. Established in 1991, the Nayoro Tire Proving Ground spans an area of 870,000 square meters. Sumitomo Rubber has now used this site...
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Inoac Corp. has made its patent-pending, strap-integrated Kake mask available for purchase online through the company’s Inoac Net Shop and its Inoac Living platform on Rakuten. Made of layered polyurethane and fabric and featuring a neck strap, the product’s single-piece design integrates a strap by which the mask can hang from the neck, obviating the need to purchase a lanyard...
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The Japanese Rubber Workers Union Confederation (JRC) has announced its plans for spring 2021 on improving lifestyles of union members throughout Japan’s rubber industry. The plan lists three main areas in which the union group will focus its efforts: (1) wages, (2) lump-sum payments and (3) promotion of work-life balance. The JRC plans to take the impact of the COVID-19...
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Toyoda Gosei Co. Ltd. (TYO:7282) is looking to have subsidiary Toyoda Gosei Minda India Pvt. Ltd. (TGMIN) merge with equity-method affiliate Minda TG Rubber Pvt. Ltd. (MTG) by way of a takeover. Through this merger, Toyoda Gosei aims to improve management efficiency in India, which the company is positioning as a priority market in its medium-term business plan for 2025....
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