Bridgestone Corp.’s (TYO:5108) golf business is planning an April 15 launch for the Tour B JGR Splash, a golf ball with new functionality. The ball takes the design of the existing Tour B JGR – which has met with good reviews for its role in maximizing the carry of amateur golfers – and adds the benefit of water repellency. While...
Zeon Corp. (TYO:4205) is looking to boost production capacity for its Zetpol series of hydrogenated nitrile rubber (HNBR). Plans here are to remove bottlenecks from the production facilities of Zeon’s Takaoka Plant in Toyama. This is set to provide a roughly 10 percent capacity increase to the plant’s 4,000-ton annual capacity. Efforts toward this end will begin this autumn, when...
The Japanese Rubber Workers Union Confederation (JRC) has set out on its annual spring labor offensive for 2022. The bulk of demands here have now come in, especially those from the unions of large manufacturers. Looking at these demands, the weighted average wage increase demanded by 42 unions comes out to an extra 5,579 yen ($45.78) per month, or a...
Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. (TYO:5101) has announced that its Mie Plant and Shinshiro Plant received “Business Location in Harmony with Nature” certification last month from the Association for Business Innovation in harmony with Nature and Community (ABINC), highlighting these locations as plants that pay heed to biodiversity. This now makes for five Yokohama Rubber plants that have received this certification,...
Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. (TYO:5101) is looking to increase production capacity for conveyor belts at its Hiratsuka Factory in Kanagawa. This comes as part of a broader effort to bolster the company’s business for industrial materials. Plans are to conduct the expansion here in stages, with the first stage amounting to an investment of around 1.6 billion yen ($13.22 million)....
Dow Chemical Japan Ltd. has raised its prices on functional chemical products, starting with supply on March 20. Ethanolamines and ethyleneamines from the company are up by 50 yen ($0.42) per kilogram; propylene glycol ethers by 35 yen per kilogram, or 40 yen for electronic material grades; isopropanolamines, ethylene glycol ethers, functional glycol ethers, propionic acid, alcohols and esters by...
