This summer tire season, Bridgestone is focusing on its flagship premium comfort tire Regno GR-XIII, which went on sale in February this year. The Regno GR-XIII is the first Japanese domestic passenger car tire to incorporate Enliten, a product design platform technology that the company positions as the new premium for the EV era. By integrating this technology with the...
Current carbon masterbatch demand is sluggish, lacking momentum both domestically in Japan and internationally, and the outlook for recovery is uncertain. In addition, manufacturers are facing a number of challenges, including aging facilities, aging employees and rising costs. Although the industry is indispensable in supporting rubber products, the environment in which it operates appears to be difficult. Carbon masterbatch production...
Toyo Tires on April 24 held a technical briefing on its new truck and bus tire products and announced the Delvex M135 ribbed tire for light trucks and the Nanoenergy M151 EV ribbed tire for light EV trucks. Regarding the background to the development of both tires, the company commented, “The growth of the e-commerce market has led to an...
Zeon reported net sales of 382.28 billion yen ($2.42 billion), down 1.6% year-on-year, operating income of 20.50 billion yen, down 24.6%, ordinary income of 26.91 billion yen, down 14.3%, and net income of 31.10 billion yen, up 194.3% for the year ended March 2024. In the elastomer materials business segment, sales declined 3.1% to 215.29 billion yen, and operating profit...
Shin-Etsu Polymer posted sales of 104.38 billion yen ($668.25 million), down 3.6% year-on-year, operating income of 11.05 billion yen, down 13.3%, ordinary income of 11.53 billion yen, down 11.2%, and net income of 8.67 billion yen, up 1.7% for the fiscal year ended March 2024. In the precision molded products segment, sales declined 4.8% to 47.61 billion yen, and operating...
Tosoh said that it will raise the prices of all Skyprene chloroprene rubber products for shipments from May 20. The price increase is 57 yen ($0.36) or more per kilogram for sulfur modified grades and 47 yen or more per kilogram for other grades. Regarding the price increase, the company said, “We have been implementing various measures to reduce costs,...
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