The Japan Belting Industry Association has released its demand forecasts for rubber and plastic belts for the years 2024 and 2025. According to the report, rubber belt production in 2024 is expected to be 17,651 tons, down 9% from the previous year, and rubber belt demand in 2025 is forecast to be 17,402 tons, down 1% from the previous year....
Eneos Materials will make Eneos MOL Synthetic Rubber (EMSR), a Hungarian consolidated subsidiary that manufactures and sells solution-polymerized styrene-butadiene rubber (SSBR), into its wholly owned subsidiary by acquiring all shares held by the MOL Group (MOL). MOL, as a shareholder of EMSR, has been primarily responsible for supplying raw materials, utilities and various services to EMSR. The companies have agreed...
Bridgestone, in collaboration with Tohoku University, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), and the University of Shiga Prefecture, has begun research aimed at establishing material recycling technology for polyolefin, a type of plastic typified by polyethylene and polypropylene. The research aims to establish guidelines for the development of new resource-recycling polyolefin materials that can be recycled...
The Japan Rubber Hose Manufacturers Association has released its demand forecasts for rubber hoses for 2024 and 2025. According to the forecast, 2024 demand for automotive hoses, which account for 70% of the total, will stagnate due to the suspension of production and shipments following the certification fraud scandal involving some automakers. In 2025, demand for automotive hoses is expected...
The Japan Society of Seismic Isolation held on November 22 its 20th Forum on Seismic Isolation at the Nihon University College of Science and Technology. Ninety-three people, including members, non-members, and students, attended the forum. The theme of this year’s forum was Considering Japan as an Earthquake Archipelago. The association believes that, as major earthquakes occur in various parts of...
Yokohama Rubber, the University of Tsukuba, and the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) have developed a new image processing method to clearly visualize the internal nanoscale structure of rubber materials. Conventional electron microscope images are noisy and obscure the outline of the interior of rubber, but the new method clearly captures the network structure of reticular molecules and quantifies...
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