The Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association (JAMA) announced that automobile production volume in Japan for May 2016 totaled 656,814 units, an increase of 1.7 percent compared to the same month of the previous year and the first year-on-year increase in two months. Looking at production volume by vehicle type, passenger cars totaled 554,070 units, up 2.8 percent for the first increase...
Nikka Shoko (Japan) Co. Ltd. will establish a new recycling and engineering affiliate in early fall to recycle rubber products into civil engineering materials. The products to be recycled include rubber, silicone oil, carpet tiles, turf-protection mats and chipped rubber originally made by Nikka Shoko, a trading firm that has been supplying manufacturers in the Tokyo area with rubber sheet...
Tokyo Zairyo Corp., a raw material trading company and a subsidiary of Zeon Corp. (TYO:4205), has announced its annual net revenue for the fiscal year ending March 2016 was 87.924 billion yen ($865 million), down 2 percent year-on-year. Ordinary income was 1.854 billion yen, up 2 percent and net profit was 1.357 billion yen, down 13 percent. Ordinary income rose...
The China Rubber Industry Association (CRIA) has revealed that the planned labeling system showing a tire’s environmental performance characteristics at a glance will be implemented starting on Sept. 15, 2016. Comprising a grading scheme and a set of labeling management regulations, the system ranks tires as fuel-efficient “Green Tires” when specified standards for rolling resistance, wet grip and noise are...
Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Development Organization (NEDO) plans to begin innovative efforts to develop biotechnologies that will help Japan free itself from dependence on foreign technologies. The effort is aimed at developing national technologies for genome editing, as well as Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence, which can be applied to the production of industrial materials from plants and microorganisms,...
Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd. (TYO:5110) this August will roll out sales of its new studless tire for passenger vehicles, the Dunlop Winter Maxx 02. The new tire represents the brand’s best to date for performance on ice and snow and for overall durability. The Winter Maxx 02 improves upon the ice and snow-braking performance of its predecessor, the Winter Maxx...
