Bridgestone has recently unveiled its latest initiatives for advancing tire-to-tire recycling. The company publicly introduced its precision pyrolysis demonstration unit, a core technology in its chemical recycling efforts, for the first time. Recovered materials such as recycled carbon black and pyrolysis oil were also showcased. Bridgestone outlined its resource circulation vision toward 2050 and detailed its roadmap to achieve it....
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Fuji Latex Forecasts Revenue Growth for First Time in Four Years
Fuji Latex reported its financial results for the fiscal year ended March 2025, with net sales of 7.19 billion yen ($49.68 million), down 4.1% year-on-year, and operating profit of 208 million yen, down 52.6%. Ordinary profit fell by 55.3% to 170 million yen, while net profit increased by 2.9% to 298 million yen. This marked the third consecutive year of...
Nitto Kako Launches Pilot Project for Recycled Rubber Mats
Nitto Kako has launched a demonstration project to develop a new parallel production scheme for two types of recycled rubber mats made from used tires. Through this initiative, the company aims to establish a stable manufacturing and sales system for these mats—texture mats and solid mats—and contribute to the creation of a circular resource market in the future. In Japan,...
Zeon Establishes New Research Facility in Japan
Zeon has established a new research facility at its Zeon Chemicals Yonezawa site in Yonezawa City, Yamagata Prefecture, to develop manufacturing processes for plant-based raw materials. The two-story building has a total floor area of 590.34 square meters. The facility will advance biotechnology development for producing butadiene and isoprene, key raw materials for synthetic rubber, directly from plant sources, aiming...
Bridgestone to Raise Japanese Prices of Seismic Isolation Rubber
Bridgestone on June 10 announced a 14% average price increase for its seismic isolation rubber for Japanese domestic manufacturers, effective from June. “In recent years, rising raw material prices, coupled with domestic social and economic conditions, have driven up logistics and energy costs for production and supply. Despite efforts to improve productivity, we determined that absorbing these costs through internal...
Tosoh to Expand Japanese Chloroprene Rubber Production Capacity
Tosoh has decided to expand its chloroprene rubber (CR) production capacity, investing approximately 75 billion yen ($520 million) to build a second CR plant at its Nanyo Complex in Shunan City, Yamaguchi Prefecture. The new facility will increase annual production capacity by 22,000 tons, bringing Tosoh’s total CR supply capacity to 59,000 tons, combined with the existing 37,000-ton capacity. Construction...

