Bridgestone Tire Solutions Japan will from September 20 begin offering a real-time monitoring service for transportation companies in Japan. The service is using Tirematics, a digital solution tool that enables remote monitoring of tire pressure and temperature information measured by the Tire Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS). The newly launched real-time monitoring service will utilize Tirematics to transmit tire pressure and...
Specialty rubber manufacturer Zeon reported net sales of 97.756 billion yen ($737.444 million) for the first quarter (April-June) of the fiscal year ending March 2023, up 11.9 percent year-on-year. Operating income was 10.726 billion yen, down 22.6 percent, ordinary income was 12.940 billion yen, down 12.7 percent, and net income was 8.706 billion yen, down 13.4 percent. In the elastomer...
Toyoda Gosei will accelerate the development of digital talent to respond to changes in the automotive industry environment and achieve sustainable growth in the future. The company has established a target to increase the number of standard-level digital talent, the core of its operations, to 270 by 2025 and 400 by 2030. In addition to recruiting digital talent from outside...
Asahi Rubber’s Shirakawa No. 2 Plant in Shirakawa City, Fukushima Prefecture, has acquired ISO 13485 certification, an international quality management system standard for medical devices. The company is developing its medical and life science business alongside its optical, functional, and telecommunications businesses, and is currently manufacturing rubber stoppers for intravenous infusion bags as well as mixing medications, and the AR...
Toyoda Gosei has launched two new products as a collaboration between its sustainable product brand Re-S and partner Beams Japan. The products – both made out of recycled airbag fabric – are a vest with features appropriate for emergencies and a wrap that can be used as emergency headgear. Toyoda Gosei has already been offering other products under its Re-S...
Yokohama Rubber announced on July 22 that it will raise the price of tires shipped for the Japanese market effective October 1. The hike will include summer, winter, and all-season tires and tube flaps for Japanese market use, which will be subject to an increase of up to 8 percent, depending on the type, product, size, and other factors. The...
