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Yokohama Rubber to Join Level 4 Automated Truck Public Road Test

Yokohama Rubber will participate in a public road test of trunk line transportation by Level 4 self-driving trucks conducted by T2, a company that develops self-driving trucks, and will conduct tire verification. The vehicle will be equipped with new truck and bus tires scheduled for release next spring to verify the performance required of tires for self-driving trucks. In the...

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Mitsuboshi Belting Posts Record Highs for Sales, Net Income in First Half

Mitsuboshi Belting posted sales of 45.45 billion yen ($295.59 million), up 8.1% year-on-year, operating income of 4.55 billion yen, up 9.9%, ordinary income of 4.29 billion yen, down 23.6%, and net income of 6.09 billion yen, up 69.5% for the first half (April to September) of the fiscal year ending March 31, 2025. Sales and net income reached record highs...

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Fukoku Reports First Half Results, Net Income Up 47%

Fukoku, a leading manufacturer of automotive rubber parts, posted sales of 44.59 billion yen ($289.88 million), up 3.8% year-on-year, operating income of 2.06 billion yen, up 94.5%, ordinary income of 2.22 billion yen, up 59.8%, and net income of 1.54 billion yen, up 47.2% in the first half (April to September) of the fiscal year ending March 31, 2025. “Net...

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Bando Chemical Posts First Half Results

Bando Chemical announced that for the first half (April to September) of the fiscal year ending March 31, 2025, sales revenue was 58.10 billion yen ($377.63 million), up 7.7% year-on-year; core operating income was 4.12 billion yen, up 9.3%; and net income was 3.30 billion yen, down 10.2%. “Sales and operating income increased, but net income decreased due to a...

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Yokohama Rubber Develops Image Processing Method for Rubber Material Electron Microscope Images

Yokohama Rubber, the University of Tsukuba, and the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) have developed a new image processing method to clearly visualize the internal nanoscale structure of rubber materials. Conventional electron microscope images are noisy and obscure the outline of the interior of rubber, but the new method clearly captures the network structure of reticular molecules and quantifies...

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Resonac Sees Significant Recovery in Semiconductor and Electronics Materials

Resonac Holdings announced for the first nine months (January-September) of the current fiscal year net sales of 1.028 trillion yen ($6.65 bilion), up 9.0% year-on-year, operating income of 58.89 billion yen (4.39 billion yen loss in the same period of the previous year), ordinary income of 46.5 billion yen (7.15 billion yen loss in the same period of the previous...

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