Showa Glove has opened Sakaide Plant, the first and largest nitrile rubber glove production facility in Japan. Marking an investment of around 15 billion yen ($100 million), the main feature of the plant is the automation of all processes, from production to packaging, which had been considered difficult to achieve in the past. The site area is approximately 97,000 square...
The impact of China’s overproduction, which has become a global problem for steel and commodity resins, is spreading to synthetic rubber as well. First in line are commodity synthetic rubber products for tires, but will it spread to other types of products as well? On October 25, Ube announced that it has resolved to dissolve its equity method affiliate Lotte...
Bridgestone’s in-house venture Soft Robotics Ventures and the unisex fashion brand Crafsto have announced the launch of a triangle bag, a collaboration between the two companies. The bag’s handles are upcycled rubber actuators from Soft Robotics Ventures’ soft robotic hand Tetote. This is the first upcycling of the rubber actuators. Crafsto is a fashion brand operated by Heritage. The brand...
In line with its mission of contributing to society with the highest quality, Bridgestone’s vision is to become a sustainable solutions company that continuously delivers social and customer value by 2050. To achieve carbon neutrality and 100% sustainable materials by that year, the company is promoting the establishment of a unique sustainability business model in which tires are created, sold,...
Ishihara Packing Industry has installed a 5-axis waterjet machine manufactured by Kitagawa Iron Works at its sales office and factory in Kasuya Gun, Fukuoka Prefecture. “This makes us the first company in the rubber industry in the Kyushu area to do so,” the company said. In November 1994, Ishihara Packing Industry became the first rubber and packing processor in Japan...
Toyoda Gosei has doubled the production capacity of the recycling process at its Morimachi Plant in Shizuoka Prefecture in order to accelerate resource recycling of rubber used in automobiles. In the automotive industry, while recycling of resources such as steel and plastics is progressing, rubber products are difficult to recycle and most of them are incinerated. The company has been...
