Sumitomo Rubber has decided to withdraw from the gas pipe business within 2025. Products in this business are manufactured at the company’s Kakogawa Plant and sold by Dunlop Home Products, a Sumitomo Rubber group company selling household, nursing and medical supplies. The products include rubber pipes for LPG, soft cords for city gas, gas cords, and reinforced gas hoses for...
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Sumitomo Rubber’s CSR Fund to Donate for Efforts to Achieve SDG Goals
The Sumitomo Rubber CSR Fund, which is funded by employee volunteers, will donate a portion of its reserves in addition to subsidies starting this fiscal year to help the company achieve the SDGs goals even more than before. Since 2010, the Fund has been providing grants to NPOs and volunteer groups that are engaged in activities such as environmental conservation,...
Sumitomo Rubber to Support Breast Cancer Awareness
Sumitomo Rubber supports the Pink Ribbon Campaign to promote early detection and early treatment of breast cancer, which is estimated to affect one in nine women. Through the Pink Ribbon Campaign, the company aims to contribute to the realization of a sustainable society in which all women can shine by providing them with correct knowledge, informing their families and partners,...
Research Group Succeeds in Measuring Carbon Particle and Polymer Movement in Rubber
Using tire rubber as a sample, a joint industry-academia research group has succeeded in measuring the movement of carbon particles, one of the fillers used in tire rubber, and polymers with a time resolution of 890 nanoseconds (one billionth of a second), the fastest in the world. The group includes Hiroyuki Kishimoto, Director of the Analysis Center, Research and Development...
Japan’s Four Major Tire Makers Achieve Record First-Half Results
The four major Japanese tire makers have reported their first-half (January-June) results for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2023. All four companies achieved record-high sales, driven by a weak yen and a recovery in sales of tires for new vehicles. Moreover, Bridgestone, Sumitomo Rubber and Toyo Tires secured higher operating income (adjusted operating income for Bridgestone, and operating income...
Sumitomo Rubber Advances Active Tread and Sensing Core Technologies
Sumitomo Rubber is making progress in proprietary technologies such as Active Tread and Sensing Cores. Active Tread is the company’s proprietary, patent-pending rubber technology that switches the tread in contact with the road surface to the optimum performance according to various road surface conditions caused by changes in weather and temperature. When the road surface changes from dry to wet,...
