Nitta’s resin belt sales for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025, increased in the high single digits year-on-year, with food-grade products seeing similar revenue growth. The high-performance, all-in-one Wexu and Mexu series belts drove strong sales. The Wexu series, offering resistance to sodium hypochlorite solution, physical shrinkage prevention, heat resistance, antibacterial and antifungal properties, oil resistance, low noise, fray...
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Yokohama Rubber Launches New Flame Retardant and Oil-Resistant Conveyor Belt
Yokohama Rubber MB Japan, a Japanese domestic industrial products sales company of Yokohama Rubber, has released a product with excellent flame retardant and oil resistance from its original brand Criterion steep inclined conveyor belt series Z (Zeta). This product is a conveyor belt that combines a special shape that enables conveyance at steep inclines and vertical conveyance, which is impossible...
Bando Chemical to Continue Focusing on Food and Logistics Fields
Bando Chemical’s Japanese domestic sales revenue of plastic conveyor belts for the first quarter of the fiscal year ending March 31, 2025, increased year-on-year. For the full year, Bando will continue to focus on the food and logistics fields, aiming to increase sales and profits. In the food industry, the company will focus on expanding sales of products promoted at...
Review: Japanese Conveyor Belt Market in 2023
According to statistics compiled by the Japan Belting Industry Association, Japanese conveyor belt production in 2023 was 9,073 tons, down 5% from the previous year, marking the second consecutive year of decline and the second year in a row that production has fallen below 10,000 tons. Japanese domestic demand was boosted by an increase in automobile production due to the...
New Bando Conveyor Belt Offers High Detachability, Slideability
Bando Chemical has launched sales of a non-adhesive belt for food product use that it has named Mr. Silky Coat, a new addition to its Sunline Belt lineup of light-duty conveyor belts. The use of the hybrid material in which the belt surface is impregnated with silicone-modified polyurethane gives the belt a surface for transporting materials that is high in...
Yokohama Rubber Plans Increase to Conveyor Belt Production Capacity
Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. (TYO:5101) is looking to increase production capacity for conveyor belts at its Hiratsuka Factory in Kanagawa. This comes as part of a broader effort to bolster the company’s business for industrial materials. Plans are to conduct the expansion here in stages, with the first stage amounting to an investment of around 1.6 billion yen ($13.22 million)....