Bridgestone has launched in launched in July a new solution service for mining, which has already found use by resource major BHP at their Pampa Norte Spence mine in Chile. The service proposes optimal tire maintenance timing and driving routes based on tire durability prediction using a proprietary algorithm developed by Bridgestone. Based on the unique algorithm that makes full...
Toyo Tires President & CEO Takashi Shimizu was awarded the Medal with Blue Ribbon in the 2023 Autumn Medal of Honor. The Medal was given in recognition of his promotion of business management that contributes to the mobility society through the production and sale of automotive tires and parts, and his contribution to the development of the rubber industry as...
Toyo Retread received the Council Chairman’s Award in the 2023 Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle Promotion Merit Award. The award has been introduced in 1992. It is given to companies that have taken initiative in reducing, reusing, and recycling, and have achieved outstanding results through continuous activities. The purpose of the award is to promote the formation of a recycling-oriented society...
The Rubber Trading Association of Japan (RTAJ) mainly engages in natural rubber-related activities, including the dissemination of opinions on industrial and foreign policies related to natural rubber import transactions and the facilitation of natural rubber import transactions. However, Sanyo Trading, one of its regular members and board member companies, does not handle natural rubber. As an importer of synthetic rubber...
The functional rubber material e-NBR, which is being jointly developed by 922 Research Institute and Miyasaka Rubber, continues garnering attention. The material has a tensile strength of 20.0 MPa, equivalent to that of hydrogenated nitrile rubber (H-NBR), but is less expensive than H-NBR. It also has ozone resistance equivalent to 100 years (theoretical value) and does not require plasticizers, fillers,...
Hayakawa Rubber, in collaboration with Kinki University School of Medicine and Okayama Central Hospital, has developed a Surgical Skin Marker that does not contain carcinogenic substances and is used to mark the skin of patients during radiotherapy and surgery. During these occasions, it is necessary to mark the skin with a marker or the like in order to accurately ascertain...
