Bando Chemical Industries Ltd. has released its business results for fiscal 2021, revealing growth in both revenue and income. The company’s sales revenue reached 93.74 billion yen, up 15.2 percent year-on-year; and its core operating income came to 5.88 billion yen, up 19.1 percent. Taking a deeper look at the results, Bando Chemical’s auto parts business saw its sales revenue...
Lanxess AG exhibited at the Tire Technology Expo that was held in Hanover, Germany, over May 18–20. The company took the opportunity to show off a range of products, including its highly versatile and sustainable vulcanization bladders for tire production. Specifically on display here were permanently coated vulcanization bladders under Lanxess’s Rhenotype brand. These bladders not only provide a long...
Inoac Corp. has succeeded in the domestic development of PE-Lite AB-100F, a plant-based polyolefin foam with a biomass content of at least 25 percent. The new foam was developed in response to a range of social issues, including marine pollution by microplastics, the drying up of petroleum and fossil resources, and issues relating to waste disposal. By using a raw...
Toyota Group company Toyoda Gosei Co. Ltd. (TYO:7282) has been selected alongside Panasonic Corp. (TYO:6752), Nagoya University and Osaka University to develop next-gen gallium nitride (GaN) power semiconductors as part of a Japanese government project. Run under the Ministry of the Environment (MoE), these efforts will form the “FY2022 Project for Acceleration of Social Implementation and Dissemination of Components (GaN)...
An industry organization for rubber products has finished putting together a range of statistics for January–March. The results reflect what has been a significant impact to the Japanese economy over the quarter – a period that has seen the COVID-19 Omicron variant surge throughout the country, with semi-emergency measures then being put in place in various regions. Providing a broad...
Dow Chemical Co. has added the sustainable brand Engage Ren to its Engage series of polyolefin elastomers. Engage Ren is manufactured using plant-derived raw materials – such as waste cooking oil – and renewable energy. Since it uses only waste residues and by-products from alternative production processes, it consumes no extra resources and does not compete with the food chain....
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