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Sumitomo Rubber and Mitsubishi Chemical to Collaborate on Carbon Black Recycling

on February 10, 2025 in Industry

Sumitomo Rubber and Mitsubishi Chemical will start collaboration on resource recycling of carbon black, one of the main raw materials for tires. Under this collaboration, Sumitomo Rubber will supply Mitsubishi Chemical with recycled materials, including rubber fragments generated in the tire manufacturing process as well as crushed and processed products from used tires. Mitsubishi Chemical will feed the recycled materials...

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Bridgestone to Build Pilot Plant for Precision Pyrolysis of Used Tires

on February 7, 2025 in Industry, Tires

Bridgestone has decided to construct a pilot plant for precision pyrolysis of used tires on the premises of its Seki Plant in Gifu Prefecture, with the aim of implementing horizontal tire recycling in society. The plant will have a maximum processing capacity of 7,500 tons of used tires per year. It will establish and optimize a precision pyrolysis process and...

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Bridgestone Launches Joint Project to Generate Carbon Black from Used Tires

on February 5, 2025 in Industry

Bridgestone, Tokai Carbon, Kyushu University, and Okayama University have launched a joint project to produce carbon black (eco Carbon Black = eCB) with rubber-reinforcing properties comparable to virgin carbon black (vCB) derived from petroleum and coal by secondary processing of recovered carbon black (rCB) extracted from used tires and other polymer products containing rubber. This project is a part of...

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Zeon Invests in Company Developing Cancer Therapy

on February 3, 2025 in Industry

Zeon has invested in Optieum Biotechnologies, a developer of innovative CAR T cells. Optieum is aiming to commercialize the world’s first innovative CAR T cell therapy for solid tumors. One of the cancer therapies classified as gene therapy, the new therapy is based on the Eumbody System technology developed at Ehime University, which can efficiently produce chimeric antigen receptors (CAR)...

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Katecs Develops System to Visualize Excavation Grounds

on January 30, 2025 in Industry, Innovation

Nagoya-based rubber products trading company Katecs, together with Nishimatsu Construction and Geo Machine Engineering, has developed GroutViz, a system for 3D visualization of the state of the ground to be excavated. The system will be used to utilize data from chemical injection performed in the construction of mountain tunnel, making it possible to visualize the quality of tunnel cross-sections in...

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Forecast for New Rubber Consumption in 2025: JRMA

on January 29, 2025 in Industry

The Japan Rubber Manufacturers Association (JRMA) has compiled new rubber consumption forecasts for 2024 and 2025. According to the report, both Japanese domestic shipments and exports (on a rubber volume basis) of mainstay automotive tires in 2024 are projected to be lower than in 2023, and industrial products are also expected to be lower than in 2023, affected by the...

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