Zeon Corp. (TYO:4205) recently announced that it has had four of its domestic production bases – the Takaoka Plant, Himi Futagami Plant, Tsuruga Plant and Tokuyama Plant – switch their energy procurement over to 100 percent renewable energy as of April 1. Further, the company has agreed to the purchase of carbon-neutral LNG at its Takaoka Plant, as well as...
Zeon Corp. (TYO:4205) is looking to boost production capacity for its Zetpol series of hydrogenated nitrile rubber (HNBR). Plans here are to remove bottlenecks from the production facilities of Zeon’s Takaoka Plant in Toyama. This is set to provide a roughly 10 percent capacity increase to the plant’s 4,000-ton annual capacity. Efforts toward this end will begin this autumn, when...
Zeon Corp. (TYO:4205) President Kimiaki Tanaka recently expressed very high hopes for fiscal 2022 as a year for the company to take its next step forward. Beyond just business expansion, the company intends to use the year to pursue efforts such as the formulation of a master plan for reaching carbon neutrality by 2050. Giving his broad outlook for Zeon...
Zeon Corp. (TYO:4205) has posted its financial results for the first half of fiscal 2021, revealing a sizable recovery from the same period last year. Results here included 179.08 billion yen ($1.57 billion) in sales revenue, up 30.3 percent year-on-year; 24.95 billion yen in operating income, up 151.7 percent; 26.58 billion yen in ordinary income, up 143 percent; and 18.39...
Zeon Corp. (TYO:4205) subsidiary Zeon Chemicals Asia Co. Ltd. recently launched commercial production of acrylic rubber at a base in Rayong Province, Thailand. The Zeon Group has to date carried out its acrylic rubber production across three bases, these being located in Kawasaki and Kurashiki, Japan, and one in the U.S. By now adding commercial production in Thailand as well,...
Zeon Corp. (TYO:4205) has posted its business results for fiscal 2020, revealing sales revenue of 301.96 billion yen ($2.77 billion), down 6.2 percent year on year, and an operating income of 33.41 billion yen, up 28 percent. Speaking at the results briefing, company director Kazuyoshi Matsuura said that with customer industries having made a recovery in recent months, the January–April...
