Tosoh Corp. (TYO:4042) has formulated a new policy aimed at achieving carbon neutrality. The policy here looks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the entire Tosoh Group, and follows the Japanese government’s recent moves to declare carbon neutrality for 2050 and revise the country’s 2030 emissions reduction target. Under this new policy, Tosoh has laid out a strategy to reduce...
The Japan Rubber Manufacturers Association (JRMA) has revealed its forecast for the consump-tion of new rubber in 2022. Despite concerns around an economic downturn due to the rapid in-crease in Omicron cases, the forecast points to Japan’s consumption of new rubber as rising 7.9 percent year-on-year, reaching 1.35 million tons. In the realm of automotive tires and tubes for OE...
Japan Rubber Weekly recently carried out a survey on business conditions, earnings projections and other such topics in the rubber and polymer product manufacturing industry, conducting this over mid to late December. Answers from 100 respondents were then analyzed to get a picture of how things are going in this field. On the topic of earnings projections for fiscal 2021,...
Sumitomo Riko Co. Ltd. (TYO:5191) has installed and started up solar power facilities at a plant operating in Mitake, Gifu Prefecture, under domestic group company Tokai Chemical Industries Ltd. These facilities have been established as part of an on-site power purchase agreement (PPA), marking the Sumitomo Riko Group’s third domestic site to make use of such a model. The on-site...
The Japan Automobile Tyre Manufacturers Association (JATMA) has responded to a request from Kama City in Fukuoka Prefecture, deciding to support a local restoration project in the form of waste tire removal. The association revealed on Jan. 7 that a JATMA representative has handed Kama City Mayor Yukihiro Akama a written notification of this decision. This decision will see JATMA...
Ikuji Ikeda, president of the Japan Rubber Manufacturers Association (JRMA) and chairman of Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd. (TYO:5110), spoke recently about just what the JRMA has been up to of late. For one, he noted how a centerpiece of the association’s activities last year was getting the manufacture of rubber products added as an occupation type under Japan’s Technical Intern...
