The Japanese Carbon Black Association recently published the 2016 edition (vol. 66) of its carbon black almanac, the only yearbook in the Japanese carbon black industry. This new edition contains a complete overview of the industry in 2015, with information regarding supply and demand trends in the Japanese market, as well as the latest international information from the following regions:...
With an ordinary income of 226.91 billion yen ($2.205 billion) in fiscal 2015, Bridgestone Corp. (TYO:5108) held the top spot among 165 major Japanese rubber manufacturers, found a survey published in the September issue of Japan Rubber and Elastomers, a monthly sister publication of Japan Rubber Weekly. For Bridgestone, this marked a 0.4 percent year-on-year decline. The number two, Toyo...
Total sales for 165 major Japanese rubber manufacturers stood at 4.303 trillion yen ($42.069 billion) in fiscal 2015, according to a survey of non-consolidated business results published in the September issue of Japan Rubber and Elastomers, a monthly sister publication of Japan Rubber Weekly. Total sales for the 159 companies with comparable sales in fiscal 2014 were 4.267 trillion yen,...
Exports of rubber products fell 20.6 percent year-on-year in June to 74.86 billion yen ($734.451 million), while imports fell 10.0 percent to 33.345 billion yen according to the Japan Rubber Manufacturers Association. Exports fell for the 11th straight month, while imports were down following an increase in May. Exports fell for 11 out of 15 categories in June, with automobile...
Sales of hose assemblies fell 6 percent year-on-year to 29.677 billion yen in the first half of 2016, according to the Japan Hose Coupling Association (JHCA). By category, industrial rubber hoses fell 6 percent, automotive rubber hoses declined 5 percent, and plastic hoses were down 6 percent. For June, total sales fell 5 percent year-on-year to 5.482 billion yen, the...
Production of automobile tires and tire tubes for the first half of 2016 suffered a year-on-year drop of 6.6 percent, to a total of 500,481 tons, according to records compiled by the Japan Automobile Tyre Manufacturers Association (JATMA). Apart from a year-on-year increase of 7.3 percent in the production of industrial vehicle tires, production volumes fell year-on-year for all tire...
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