Sumitomo Riko Co. Ltd. (TYO:5191) recently announced that it has started to introduce carbon-neutral city gas supplied by Toho Gas Co. Ltd. (TYO:9533) to its facilities earlier this month. This comes as Sumitomo Riko’s first such initiative, with the company aiming to help bring about a sustainable society through the adoption of cleaner energy. The city gas introduced here sees...
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Sumitomo Riko Co. Ltd. (TYO:5191) has seen its Monilife vital data monitoring equipment picked up for use in 9H Sleep Fitscan, a sleep analysis service offered by Tokyo-based capsule hotel operator Nine Hours Inc. The service launched earlier this month at a capsule hotel operated by Nine Hours in Tokyo. Monilife takes the form of a piezoelectric sensor based on...
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Sumitomo Riko Co. Ltd. (TYO:5191) and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) have improved part of the test course facilities set up at AIST’s Tsukuba North site. Coming as part of a collaborative research effort, this has seen six types of special road surface set up on the course – where testing on these new surfaces...
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Sumitomo Riko Co. Ltd. (TYO:5191) has posted its business results for the first quarter of fiscal 2021. The company’s sales revenue came to 109.79 billion yen ($1 billion), up 67.9 percent year-on-year; business profit came to 2.71 billion yen, up from an 8.04 billion yen loss; and net profit came to 1.73 billion yen, up from a 7.38 billion yen...
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Sumitomo Riko Co. Ltd. (TYO:5191) has launched sales of the SR Active Mattress Taiatsu Bunsan Friend, coming as a new series in its mattress lineup to help prevent bed-ridden patients from developing bedsores. By making use of the company’s proprietary Smart Rubber (SR) sensor technology, mattresses under the new series are able to measure the patient’s body pressure and detect...
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Sumitomo Riko Co. Ltd. (TYO:5191) has seen its Finesulight series of thin films with high thermal insulation functionality get picked up for use in the BioBox Freezer, a dry ice-compatible, ultrahigh-performance thermal insulation box offered by Sugiyama-Gen Co. Ltd. Allowing for storage at below minus 70 degrees Celsius without the need for electricity, this freezer box is expected to find...
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