Sumitomo Rubber made its debut at the Tokyo Game Show 2025, held at Makuhari Messe from September 25 to 28, where it presented a sales booth for Dunlop’s eSports brand Gaming Muscle. The company exhibited a range of products that had previously been available exclusively through its online store, including arm supporters, posture-assist innerwear, and compression core-support tights. It also...
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Vertical Conveyor Performing Strongly: Yoshino Rubber
Yoshino Rubber Industry supports a wide range of infrastructure sites, including power plants, steel mills, tunnel construction projects and sewage treatment plants. Among its key offerings is a unique vertical conveyor belt capable of efficiently transporting large volumes of material vertically. This flagship product is highly regarded in the market for its two-belt structure—consisting of a corrugated main conveyor belt...
Kuriyama Holdings to Establish New R&D Center
Kuriyama Holdings will open a comprehensive research and development facility, tentatively named the Kuriyama R&D Center, in Higashihiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture. The facility is scheduled for completion around June 2026, with construction having begun in June 2025. The three-story building will occupy a site area of 4,800 square meters with a total floor area of approximately 3,400 square meters, representing...
Sumitomo Rubber Positions eSports as Third Core Business
Sumitomo Rubber is making a serious push into the eSports market. In 2022, the company launched arm supporters under the Dunlop Gaming Muscle brand and has since expanded the product lineup. Leveraging its player-first philosophy, cultivated through supporting top athletes in golf and tennis, Sumitomo Rubber aims to appeal to younger audiences with the Dunlop brand while simultaneously developing adjacent...
Hayakawa Rubber Eyes Boosting Sales of Infrastructure Solutions
Hayakawa Rubber offers a wide range of infrastructure-related products designed to improve concrete quality, waterproofing and seismic performance. These include Spanseal waterstops for concrete joints, rubber waterstops and flexible joints for connecting concrete structures, and Santac IN Joints for flexibly connecting aging pipeline joints. In the first half of the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025 (January–June), sales of the...
Kuriyama Targets Over 8 Billion Yen Operating Profit by 2030
Kuriyama Holdings, a fabless manufacturer with trading company functions, reported for the first half of the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025 net sales of 43.28 billion yen ($291.89 million), up 7.3% from the same period a year earlier, operating profit of 2.60 billion yen down, 6.7%, ordinary profit of 2.94 billion yen, down 5.5%, and net profit of 2.64...