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Environmental Products Make up 40% of Sales: Hayakawa Rubber

Hayakawa Rubber, a manufacturer of industrial rubber products, is working a number of environmental contribution activities, including reduction of waste from the entire production process, energy-saving activities throughout the plant, reduction of paper consumption throughout the plant, reduction of noise from the entire production process, and design and development of environmentally friendly products. With regard to energy-saving activities, Hayakawa Rubber...

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Sumitomo Riko Promotes Products for Fuel Cell Trucks

Sumitomo Riko is promoting business activities to realize a carbon-neutral and hydrogen society, and is developing and mass-producing anti-vibration rubber, hoses, and other products for fuel cell trucks, which are now in operation in various locations. The company is currently mass-producing products for small fuel cell trucks planned by Commercial Japan Partnership Technologies. The first is the hydrogen tank mount,...

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Mitsui Chemicals Succeeds in Development of EBT Latex

Mitsui Chemicals and Sumitomo Seika have successfully developed the world’s first EBT latex based on Mitsui Chemicals’ EPT (ethylene-propylene rubber) and EBT (ethylene butene diene). In this collaboration, Mitsui Chemicals’ synthetic rubber technology was combined with Sumitomo Seika’s latexification technology. Sample work has already started for market exploration. Mitsui Chemicals expects EBT latex to have a wide range of applications,...

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Sumitomo Rubber Announces New Next-Generation All-Season Tire

Sumitomo Rubber has unveiled its next-generation all-season tire, the Dunlop Synchro Weather. The tire is the first to feature the company’s new Active Tread technology, which changes the properties of the rubber itself in response to road conditions. With this technology, the tire has the performance of both a summer tire and a studless tire and can be used on...

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Nitta to Merge Two Subsidiaries

Nitta will merge its wholly owned subsidiary Nitta Air Solutions as the surviving company and Morimitsu, also a wholly owned subsidiary, as the dissolving company, effective October 1. The surviving company, Nitta Air Solutions, was established on November 16, 1960. The company is engaged in sales of air filtration materials and dust collectors, pipe installation, real estate maintenance and management,...

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Sumitomo Rubber Signs Shohei Otani for Dunlop Advertisement

Sumitomo Rubber has signed an advertising contract with Shohei Otani for its Dunlop brand. Otani stars in a new brand commercial in which he and Babe Ruth, whom he describes as a baseball icon, appear together in a dream collaboration. The commercial has begun airing nationwide on July 23. In addition, they will appear together in a commercial for the...

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