Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd. (TYO:5110) recently announced that it has updated the corporate group’s Sustainable Natural Rubber Policy. The move comes as an effort to bring this policy in line with updated requirements for members of the Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber (GPSNR), which were decided at the Second GPSNR General Assembly held last September. Having long touted its...
Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd. (TYO:5110) recently announced its establishment of Nano Black, a new design technique able to improve the visibility of lettering and patterns on tire sidewalls. In creating Nano Black, Sumitomo Rubber focused on the idea that the more times light strikes a light-absorbing surface, the blacker the resulting material looks. This then saw the company adopt a...
Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd. (TYO:5110) recently announced that it has started supplying its Dunlop-branded Grandtrek AT23 and Grandtrek PT5A tires as OE for the newly launched Toyota Land Cruiser 300. On top of providing the durability, reliability and other such basic performance metrics sought after in Land Cruiser tires, the AT23 and PT5A incorporate a new tread compound that offers...
Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd. (TYO:5110) has revealed its business results for January–June 2021, with the company here recording a new high for half-year sales revenue. Sales revenue for the period came to 440.08 billion yen ($4.02 billion), up 29.4 percent year-on-year; business profit was 30.09 billion yen, up from negative 2.31 billion yen in the first half of last year;...
Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd. (TYO:5110) has revealed findings of inappropriate quality control practices at two locations: namely, marine dock fender testing at its Kakogawa Factory in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, and tire production at subsidiary Sumitomo Rubber South Africa (Pty) Ltd. Working immediately to verify the safety of both fenders and tires upon this discovery, Sumitomo Rubber has found there to...
Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd. (TYO:5110) is planning a Sept. 1 launch of the All Season Maxx AS1 for Taxi. As part of the All Season Maxx series of tires, which can also navigate snowy roads, this new offering promises improvements in wear resistance with a design specifically for taxis. The All Season Maxx AS1 for Taxi comes in two sizes:...
