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CEMA Publishes Construction Machinery Demand Forecasts for Fiscal 2024 and 2025

on March 7, 2025 in Industry, Market Background

The Japan Construction Equipment Manufacturers Association (CEMA) recently released its construction machinery demand forecasts for fiscal 2024 (April 2024-March 2025) and fiscal 2025 (April 2025-March 2026). The forecasts were compiled based on a questionnaire survey conducted in January among 61 construction equipment manufacturers that are regular members of the association. According to the survey, in fiscal 2024, Japanese domestic shipments...

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Yokohama Rubber and Zeon to Construct Bench Facility for Sustainable Butadiene

on March 3, 2025 in Industry

Yokohama Rubber and Zeon will construct a bench facility at Zeon’s Tokuyama Plant in Shunan City to demonstrate a highly efficient technology for generating butadiene from ethanol derived from plant materials. The facility will begin operating in 2026, and will collect various data for securing butadiene and for mass production. This initiative is one of two R&D themes selected in...

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Japanese Tire Makers Achieve Record Sales in Fiscal 2024

on February 27, 2025 in Industry, Tires

The four Japanese tire makers, Bridgestone, Sumitomo Rubber, Yokohama Rubber, and Toyo Tires, have released their fiscal 2024 financial results. Although market conditions were generally harsh, all four companies posted record-high sales and record-high operating income (Bridgestone posted adjusted operating income; Sumitomo Rubber and Yokohama Rubber posted operating income), thanks in part to a tailwind from a weaker yen. On...

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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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