Medical glove manufacturer Sanko Chemical Industry Co. Ltd. is seeing robust sales. The strong performance is led by the company’s flagship surgical gloves, which were launched on Sept. 1 of last year and are the world’s first gloves made of thermoplastic elastomer (TPE). The use of TPE helps to prevent reactions caused by latex proteins such as Type I hypersensitivity,...
Hayakawa Rubber Co. Ltd. recently donated Superseal products, the company’s reactive-adhesion type sealant for concrete, to a Thai infrastructure project in which Chulalongkorn University’s Voluntary Engineering Student Camp (VESC) created estuary weirs. VESC, which was the first voluntary project carried out by Chulalongkorn University in 1969 and has been carried out once a year since then, was given its name...
Sumitomo Riko Co. Ltd. (TYO:5191) will host seminars on building earthquake-proof homes for construction companies in the two major cities of Osaka and Tokyo by the end of this year. The seminar will look at the structure of the Total Response Control (TRC) Damper, Sumitomo Riko’s seismic damper system for wooden houses, and offer analyses of results from full-scale experiments....
Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd. (TYO:5110) group company Dunlop Home Products Ltd. has released the new product Dun-Slope Go, a compact and lightweight portable wheelchair ramp. Dun-Slope Go’s length is between 50 centimeters and 85 centimeters and its weight is between 2.5 kilograms and 4 kilograms. The ramp comes with a special bag that makes carrying easy. Dunlop Home Products is...
Toyoda Gosei Co. Ltd. (TYO:7282) has announced it will start producing automotive parts at the company’s Saga Plant, which discontinued production of LEDs at the end of September 2016. The company has invested around 3.5 billion yen ($31.07 million) to prepare the plant to produce automotive parts. Production is set to start in May 2018 for airbag inflators, as well...
Major resin hose manufacturer Toyox Co. Ltd. has developed new hoses and couplings designed for piping that handles chemicals, cosmetics, foods and beverages. The new products were created in response to a number of requests from end users. Toyox has added two new large sizes with inner diameters of 32 and 38 millimeters to its Toyofusso S line of fluorine...
