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...
Toyo Tires will transfer its 86% stake in Toyo Tire Zhangjiagang (TTZ), a passenger car and light truck tire manufacturing subsidiary in China, to Liaoning Hengdasheng Investment (LHI), signing a basic agreement on February 14. The company has decided to review its China business in its global business strategy, as the penetration of its brand and product power has been...
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...
Resonac reported sales of 1.39 trillion yen ($9.31 billion), up 7.8% from the previous year, operating income of 78.75 billion yen (compared with a loss of 3,76 billion yen in the previous year), ordinary income of 69.69 billion yen (compared with a loss of 14.77 billion yen), and net income of 55.42 billion yen (compared with a loss of 18.96...
Kuraray reported net sales of 826.90 billion yen ($5.53 billion) for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, up 5.9% from the previous year; operating income of 85.08 billion yen, up 12.7%; ordinary income of 81.48 billion yen, up 18.0%; and net income of 31.72 billion yen, down 25.3%. Sales reached a record high. The isoprene segment posted sales of...
Tokai Carbon reported a 3.8% year-on-year decline in sales to 350.12 billion yen ($2.34 billion), a 49.9% drop in operating income to 19.39 billion yen, a 45.7% drop in ordinary income to 22.58 billion yen, and a net loss of 56.73 billion yen for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024. The net loss followed a net income of 25.47...
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