Tigers Polymer’s rubber sheet business for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025, reported higher revenue but lower profit compared to the previous year. “Price revisions last year increased sales revenue, but volume remained flat. A positive factor was the upturn in fluororubber sheet sales in the second half,” the company said. General-purpose rubber sheets saw stagnant demand across nearly...
Hanwa has acquired through its Thai subsidiary a stake in Pyro Energie, a tire pyrolysis recycling business in Thailand. Hanwa is a major Japanese trading company handling steel, food, and chemicals. The group already supplies tire chips, produced by shredding waste tires, as low-environmental-impact energy to Japanese companies. Overseas, pyrolysis is a prevalent recycling method, generating decomposition oil and carbon...
Osaka-based trading company Hanwa has announced that its Thai subsidiary, Hanwa Thailand, has signed a basic agreement with Thai waste tire collection and tire chip manufacturing companies Pralan Energy and R&T (2018). The agreement covers the supply of tire chips, which will be promoted as an alternative to coal fuel both domestically and internationally. Around the world, large quantities of...
Sumitomo Rubber has developed a rubber material that can be processed using 3D printers. The company aims to commercialize the material for 3D printing applications by 2026 and will continue to advance its development. Traditionally, producing rubber products using 3D printers has been considered difficult. However, Sumitomo Rubber has succeeded in developing a proprietary material with excellent resilience and high...
Bridgestone has announced that it has signed an agreement to transfer to SBS Holdings 66.6% of the shares in its wholly owned subsidiary Bridgestone Logistics. Through this partial transfer, Bridgestone aims to strengthen management resources and support the continued growth of Bridgestone Logistics. Bridgestone Logistics has been advancing initiatives to enhance the efficiency and sustainability of tire logistics. These efforts...
Zeon Corporation has begun construction of a pilot facility at its Tokuyama Plant in Shunan City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, to demonstrate technology that efficiently produces butadiene from ethanol derived from plant-based and other renewable sources. The new facility is scheduled to begin operations in 2026. Zeon plans to use the butadiene produced at the site to prototype polybutadiene rubber, aiming to...
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