Japan Rubber Weekly recently sat down with Shinji Seimiya, president and COO of Yokohama Rubber, to talk about the company’s latest developments. Semiya is in charge of tire design and development, as well as manufacturing, quality, and and overseeing technology and production on a global scale. Under the new mid-term management plan Yokohama Transformation 2026 (YX2026), which started this year,...
Sumitomo Rubber will launch its next-generation all-season tire Synchro Weather on October 1. It is a revolutionary tire that combines the performance of a summer tire and a studless tire, and can be used on dry, wet, icy, snowy, and other road surfaces. The new Active Tread technology, which incorporates two switches, the Water Switch and the Temperature Switch, that...
Valqua’s results for the first quarter of the fiscal year ending March 31, 2025, showed sales of 61.74 billion yen ($419.94 million), down 0.7% year-on-year; operating income of 7.10 billion yen, down 20.0%; ordinary income of 7.40 billion yen, down 18.1%; and net income of 4.91 billion yen, down 27.2%. By segment, the sealing products business posted sales of 37.16...
For the first quarter of the fiscal year ending March 31, 2025 (April-June 2024), Fuji Latex posted sales of 1.81 billion yen ($12.30 milion), down 3.1% year-on-year; operating income of 94 million yen, down 4.9%; ordinary income of 102 million yen, up 19.0%; and net income of 71 million yen, up 13.5%. By segment, the medical equipment business posted sales...
Okamoto reported a 3.4% year-on-year rise in sales to 26.07 billion yen ($177.21 million), a 10.7% rise in operating income to 2.54 billion yen, a 9.7% rise in ordinary income to 3.59 billion yen, and a 19.3% decline in net income to 2.21 billion yen for the first quarter of the fiscal year ending March 31, 2025. By segment, sales...
NOK’s first quarter results (April-June 2024) for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2025 were as follows: Net sales of 188.17 billion yen ($1.28 billion), up 14.8% year-on-year; operating income of 5.65 billion yen (vs. a loss of 1.23 billion yen in the same period of the previous year); ordinary income of 12.04 billion yen, up 86.8%; and net income...
