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Bridgestone Introduces First-Ever Studless Tire with Enliten Technology

on July 28, 2025 in Tires

Bridgestone will launch a new premium studless tire for passenger vehicles, the Blizzak WZ-1, starting in September 2025, available in 119 sizes. This tire introduces Bridgestone’s Enliten technology to studless tires for the first time, delivering what the company calls “unrivaled” ice performance and high performance across all road surfaces while contributing to sustainability, making it a “next-generation Blizzak.” Enliten,...

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Kato Office Thrives Importing and Selling High-Performance Taiwanese Machines

on July 25, 2025 in Products

Kato Office, the exclusive Japan distributor for the Taiwanese manufacturers Kneader Machinery and Jing Day Machinery Industrial, has earned strong praise for importing and selling their products while providing comprehensive service support. Kneader Machinery, established in 1981, is Taiwan’s leading manufacturer of kneader equipment, producing over 100 units annually, including pressurized kneaders, kneader mixers, and twin-shaft open kneaders, as well...

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Rubber Sheet Special Feature: Irumagawa Rubber Boosts Sales Efficiency to Secure New Projects

on July 24, 2025 in Materials

Irumagawa Rubber’s rubber sheet business for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025, recorded lower revenue and profit compared to the previous year. “Specialty fluororubber sheets and products for specific users remained weak. While general-purpose rubber sheets performed relatively steadily, they couldn’t offset the declines, resulting in overall performance below last year’s levels,” the company said. Demand trends showed that...

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Rubber Sheet Special Feature: Tigers Polymer Sees Rising Sales of Fluororubber Sheets

on July 23, 2025 in Materials

Tigers Polymer’s rubber sheet business for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025, reported higher revenue but lower profit compared to the previous year. “Price revisions last year increased sales revenue, but volume remained flat. A positive factor was the upturn in fluororubber sheet sales in the second half,” the company said. General-purpose rubber sheets saw stagnant demand across nearly...

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Hanwa Invests in Thailand’s Tire Pyrolysis Recycling Business

on July 22, 2025 in Materials

Hanwa has acquired through its Thai subsidiary a stake in Pyro Energie, a tire pyrolysis recycling business in Thailand. Hanwa is a major Japanese trading company handling steel, food, and chemicals. The group already supplies tire chips, produced by shredding waste tires, as low-environmental-impact energy to Japanese companies. Overseas, pyrolysis is a prevalent recycling method, generating decomposition oil and carbon...

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Hanwa Signs Basic Agreement with Thai Tire Chip Manufacturers

on July 18, 2025 in Industry

Osaka-based trading company Hanwa has announced that its Thai subsidiary, Hanwa Thailand, has signed a basic agreement with Thai waste tire collection and tire chip manufacturing companies Pralan Energy and R&T (2018). The agreement covers the supply of tire chips, which will be promoted as an alternative to coal fuel both domestically and internationally. Around the world, large quantities of...

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