Shin-Etsu Polymer Co. Ltd. (TYO:7970) has revealed decreased sales and a mixed bag of profit metrics in its business results for fiscal 2019. The chemical manufacturer posted sales revenue of 80.25 billion yen ($746.98 million), down by 6.1 percent year-on-year; operating profit of 7.76 billion yen, down by 4.9 percent; ordinary profit of slightly less than 8.1 billion yen, up...
Mitsui Chemicals Inc. (TYO:4183) recently posted its business results for fiscal 2020 to reveal sales of just under 1.34 trillion yen ($12.52 billion), down 9.7 percent year-on-year. The company’s overall operating income totaled a little below 71.64 billion yen, down by 23.3 percent, with ordinary income down 36.4 percent to slightly under 65.52 billion yen and net income down 50.1...
Toyoda Gosei Co. Ltd. (TYO:7282) recently posted its business results for fiscal 2019, revealing year-on-year decreases in a number of performance metrics. This included sales revenue of 812.94 billion yen ($7.6 billion), down 3.3 percent year-on-year; operating profit of 17.89 billion yen, down 51 percent; and net profit of 11.23 billion yen, down 51.8 percent. In Japan specifically, Toyoda Gosei’s...
JSR Corp. (TYO:4185) recently posted its business results for fiscal 2019, revealing sales revenue of 471.97 billion yen ($4.4 billion) – down 4.7 percent year-on-year. The company’s operating profit for the year came to 32.88 billion yen, down 27.3 percent, while its net profit totaled 22.64 billion yen, down 27.4 percent. In the Elastomers segment specifically, JSR generated 178.79 billion...
Tokai Carbon Co. Ltd. (TYO:5301) has raised prices by 6 yen per kilogram for all carbon black products, implementing this for all shipments to be delivered from May 1 onward. In explaining the price increase, the major carbon black manufacturer says that, due to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) tightening its restrictions on the permitted sulfur content of bunker fuel,...
Inoac Corp. recently posted its business results for calendar 2019, revealing a year-on-year increase to sales revenue but decrease to profits for the company as a whole. Sales revenue for the major manufacturer of rubber and polyurethane foam came to 189.47 billion yen ($1.76 billion), up by 3.9 percent year-on-year. Operating profit ended at 3.87 billion yen, down by 8.1...
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