Zeon Corp. has established a new company in Gurgaon, Haryana, India. It began business on Oct. 1, 2015 and is involved in importing, selling, and marketing. The new company is called Zeon India Private Limited (capital: 15 million Indian rupees). It is involved in the import, sale, and marketing of synthetic rubber and other Zeon group products. The establishment of...
At a tire technology study meeting held for the media and analysts, The Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd.’s Corporate Officer Masaki Noro said that “There is a slight global surplus of tires, and price competition is heating up. Yokohama Rubber will overcome this situation by cutting costs, of course, and we will also specialize and differentiate product performance.” To increase tire...
Bridgestone Corp. has announced that the sales division of its group company Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations (BATO) is adding Firestone-branded agricultural rubber tracks to its current product portfolio. These Firestone-branded agricultural rubber tracks, the new addition to BATO’s product lineup, are for high-horsepower tractors and available in three tread-design options. The tracks come with a warranty program of four years...
The new “Ceptor-X” high-load industrial power transmission belt will be available from Bando Chemical Industries Ltd. starting Nov. 1, 2015. The new product, the highest grade in the “Ceptor Series,” is a high-torque power transmission belt suitable for a variety of synchronous transmission applications in industrial machinery, such as medical equipment and robots, injection molding machines, pressing machines, printing machines...
The actions of tire giant Bridgestone Corp. attract not only Japanese but global attention. What sort of vision does the company have for the tire market of the future? “Japan’s markets are at a ‘super-mature’ stage, and the tire industry has to keep up through growth and improvements in quality,” said Kazuhisa Nishigai, the company’s chief operating officer. “To do...
Mitsutaka Yoshii, president of Bando Chemical Industries Ltd. (Kobe Head Office), a leading belt manufacturer, explained the current status in the third year of implementation of the company’s medium- and long-term management plan. Results of the first quarter (April-June) indicate that sales increased 4.3 percent while operating income increased 30.6 percent, both compared to the same period last fiscal year. In...
