Ube Industries Ltd. (TYO:4208) has decided to build a new plant to manufacture Upilex polyimide film at its Ube Chemical Factory in Yamaguchi Prefecture. This comes as the film faces growing demand for use in the circuit boards of OLED smartphone displays and LCD TVs. Scheduled to begin trial operation in October 2024, the new facility will be equipped with...
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Ube Industries Ltd. (TYO:4208) has announced plans to split off its synthetic rubber business as a subsidiary, with operations here including R&D, manufacturing and sales. The move is scheduled to be carried out on Oct. 1, forming Ube Elastomer Co. Ltd. as a wholly owned new subsidiary. Engaged in the production and sale of butadiene rubber, Ube Industries’ synthetic rubber...
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Ube Industries Ltd. (TYO:4208) recently announced that it is raising prices by 65 yen ($0.59) per kilogram for its Ube Nylon 6 resin products, and by 50 yen per kilogram for its Ube Nylon 12 resin products. With this price hike coming into effect on April 1, the company has started negotiations with its customers. This marks Ube Industries’ first...
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Ube Industries Ltd. (TYO:4208) is set to move ahead with a seven-year joint R&D project for a data-driven integrated biomanufacturing management system (iBMS). This is being pursued as a way to facilitate the popularization of biomanufacturing in broader society. Ube Industries recently made a project proposal here to the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), submitting this in...
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Ube Industries Ltd. (TYO:4208) recently released its business results for the first half of fiscal 2019, posting year-on-year decreases in sales and most profit metrics. The company achieved 335.06 billion yen ($3.08 billion) in sales for the half, down 3.8 percent from the same period last year; 16.76 billion yen in operating profit, up 11.4 percent year-on-year; 16.64 billion yen...
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Ube Industries Ltd. (TYO:4208) is planning to increase its current production capacity for butadiene rubber (BR) by approximately 8 percent in 2020, company president Masato Izumihara has revealed. At present, Ube Industries has a total of 320,000 tons of annual BR production capacity across bases in Thailand, China, Malaysia and the Japanese city of Chiba. But in October 2020, the...
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