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Sumitomo Rubber to Start Offering Tire Pressure and Temperature Management Service for Trucks

Sumitomo Rubber will begin offering its Tire Pressure and Temperature Management Service, which monitors tire pressure and temperature for trucks and alerts users of abnormalities, at Dunlop truck tire dealers from July 8. The service combines a TPMS (Tire Pressure Monitoring System) with four types of tools tailored to user needs to utilize tire pressure and temperature information from installed...

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Togawa Industry to Raise Prices of All Resin Hoses and Other Products Effective July 21

Togawa Industry will raise the prices of all of its products, including plastic hoses, beginning with deliveries on July 21. Prices for general-purpose catalog products will be increased by 20% or more for PVC tubing and pressure-resistant and non-PVC pressure-resistant products, and by 10% or more for drain hoses and other products. The company said, “Since the price revisions were...

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Special Report: Synthetic Rubber Faces Increasingly Severe Environment

Although there are variations by region, manufacturer, and product type, demand for synthetic rubber is increasing amid a general recovery trend in automobile and tire production. Yet in spite of these signs of a turnaround in demand, which had been declining due to inventory adjustments by auto parts manufacturers in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic, the environment surrounding synthetic...

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Mitsuboshi Belting to Construct New Building at Nagoya Plant

Mitsuboshi Belting will construct a new four-story building at its Nagoya Plant in Komaki City, Aichi Prefecture, that will house both production lines and an automated warehouse distribution system. The investment will be approximately 6 billion yen ($37.43 million), with operations scheduled to begin in May 2026. The site area is set to be approximately 5,300 square meters and total...

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Shin-Etsu Chemical to Raise Prices of All Silicone Products

Shin-Etsu Chemical announced that it will raise the prices of all silicone products handled by its Silicone Division in Japan and overseas by more than 10% beginning with shipments on July 1. Regarding the price increase, Shin-Etsu Chemical said, “the silicone product environment is characterized by rising costs for raw materials and energy used in manufacturing, as well as rising...

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Industry-Academia-Government Collaboration Reveals Molecular-Level Bonding State of Rubber and Silica

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency, the Comprehensive Research Organization for Science and Society (CROSS), the J-PARC Center, Yamagata University, Mie University, Kyoto University, and Yokohama Rubber have elucidated the molecular-level bonding state of rubber and silica using spin contrast modulated neutron reflectometry that utilizes neutrons and hydrogen spins. The spin-contrast modulated neutron reflectometry is a method for structural analysis of...

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