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Shin-Etsu Polymer Discloses 2016 Business Performance

on May 1, 2017 in Materials

Shin-Etsu Polymer (TYO:7970) recently gave details of its business performance for the fiscal year ending March 2017. The company, which manufactures products for silicone rubber molding and value-added resin treatment, made 73,979,000,000 yen ($663.79 million) in sales, down 1.4 percent from last year; 5,511,000,000 yen in operating profit, up 34.4 percent; 5,934,000,000 yen in ordinary profit, up 30.9 percent; and...

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Du Pont-Toray Opens Kevlar Technical Center

on April 27, 2017 in Materials

Du Pont-Toray Co. Ltd. has established the Kevlar Technical Center, a technical facility for Kevlar aramid fiber used in tires and rubber. The center is located within Toray Industries Inc.’s (TYO:3402) Tokai Plant. For the first year of operation, the center has been outfitted with such equipment as state-of-the-art dipping machines to deal with consecutive double dipping and heat treatment...

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Yokohama Rubber Opens New-Style Employee Housing Complex for Singles and Families

on April 13, 2017 in Materials

Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. (TYO:5101) has built Ciento Musashi-Kosugi, a new employee housing complex in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture. Accepting residents from the end of March, the facility is a new type of complex that combines company-owned housing for families with male and female dormitories. Yokohama Rubber built Ciento Musashi-Kosugi by renovating the company’s male dormitory, which was constructed in 1968....

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Interview: ZS Elastomers President Talks Company Development, Production Consolidation and Aspirations

on April 12, 2017 in Interviews, Materials

ZS Elastomers Co. Ltd. (ZSE), a solution styrene-butadiene rubber (S-SBR) joint venture between Zeon Corp. (TYO:4205) and Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd. (TYO:4005), will soon begin operations. Japan Rubber Weekly sat down with ZSE President Kei Itoh, temporarily assigned from Zeon, to talk about the company’s aims. Looking at the developments to come out of Zeon, Itoh said that it was...

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Sumitomo Rubber to Donate 7.85 Million Yen in Charitable Aid

on April 11, 2017 in Materials

Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd. (TYO:5110) will award a total of 7.85 million yen ($70,909) to 35 organizations through its corporate social responsibility (CSR) charitable aid program for fiscal 2017. Sumitomo Rubber’s CSR fund management chairperson presented donation certificates to nine organizations from Japan’s Kansai region at a presentation ceremony held at the company’s Kobe headquarters on April 5. Similar ceremonies...

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Shipment Value of Rubber Goods Declines 1.4 Percent in January

on April 4, 2017 in Market Background, Materials

According to rubber production and shipment figures released by the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), the shipment value of rubber goods for January 2017 was 157.8 billion yen ($1.42 billion). The figure shows a year-on-year decrease of 1.4 percent and a negative turnaround following an increase in December 2016. The production volume of automotive tires was down...

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