Techpro Japan Inc. has signed an import agent agreement with British testing instruments manufacturer James H. Heal & Co. Ltd. and will commercialize the firm’s testing instruments for rubber products from November. Techpro Japan is the first company to offer James Heal’s products in the rubber sector in Japan. The company will launch the high-performance Elastomeric Abrasion Tester, an instrument...
Major chemical manufacturer Showa Denko K.K. (TYO:4004) announced a decision to offer director Kohei Morikawa the positions of representative director, president and chief executive officer. Morikawa will assume his new posts as of Jan. 4, 2017. Hideo Ichikawa, who currently serves in these positions, will become representative director and chairman of the board. After stepping down as chairman, director Kyohei...
Asahi Kasei Corp. (TYO:3407) publicly unveiled its fifth-generation solution styrene butadiene rubber (S-SBR) during the Rubber & Elastomer Technical Exhibition at IRC 2016 Kitakyushu. The company exhibited XF and XB grades from the new series. Although they had been shown to engineers at conferences, this is the first time for the company to exhibit the grades publicly. Deliveries are already...
Indian materials company Bombay Chemical & Rubber Products (BCRP) partook recently in the International Rubber Conference (IRC) 2016 Kitakyushu, displaying at the Rubber & Elastomer Technical Exhibition. The company was exhibiting there with the purpose of introducing India’s high-quality, cost-competitive raw materials, and the array of top-class manufacturers behind them, to Japanese corporations who are considering venturing into South Asian...
Tokai Carbon Co. Ltd. (TYO:5301) has increased the price of its carbon black products by 3 yen per kilogram. The change was implemented for deliveries beginning Nov. 1, applying to all varieties of carbon black. A release from the company stated that the price of raw oil used in carbon black has been rising incrementally since bottoming out at the...
“Innovation Based on Basic Science,” the theme of this year’s International Rubber Conference (IRC) held in Kitakyushu, Japan, aptly describes an important challenge the rubber industry is facing in moving forward, said Tadanobu Nagumo, honorary chairman of the IRC organizing committee, chairman of the Japan Rubber Manufacturers Association (JRMA) and president of Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. (TYO:5101), at the conference’s opening...
