Bando Chemical Industries Ltd. (TYO:5195) will build a new factory at its current site in Vietnam. With an investment of 400 million ($3.7 million), operations are scheduled to begin in the second half of 2017. The new factory is set to be built after acquiring land-use rights in Than Long Industrial Park II in Hung Yen Province by Bando Manufacturing...
Sumitomo Riko Co. Ltd. (TYO:5191) has recently set up “Kyoshokai,” a distributors conference for Sumiriko Industrial Products Shanghai Co. Ltd., the company’s industrial hose sales subsidiary based in Shanghai, China. Kyoshokai has been established with the aim of gathering dealers that market Sumitomo Riko-branded products, provide them with information about new products and other company news, and to share market...
Resin hose manufacturer Toyox Co. Ltd. has launched an improved version of the Toyoconnector TC3-F coupling. The new product makes it possible to distinguish hoses for different purposes, and has applications in equipment handling food, drink and chemical products. The coupling can be attached on-site to the company’s vinyl, polyolefin and fluorine hoses, and comes with colored seals for identifying...
Techpro Japan Inc. has signed an import agent agreement with British testing instruments manufacturer James H. Heal & Co. Ltd. and will commercialize the firm’s testing instruments for rubber products from November. Techpro Japan is the first company to offer James Heal’s products in the rubber sector in Japan. The company will launch the high-performance Elastomeric Abrasion Tester, an instrument...
Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd.’s (TYO:5101) Duotex conveyor belt has been recognized with the Chairman’s Award at the Japan Environmental Management Association for Industry (JEMAI) FY2016 Awards for Resources Recycling Technologies and Systems. It was awarded for its durability and long service life and for having a rubber compound based on recycled raw materials. The award ceremony was held on Oct....
Shipment value of rubber products made a slight year-on-year increase in August, moving up 0.8 percent to 163 billion yen ($1.55 billion), according to records collated by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI). Although the shift was of only a small degree, it represents the first year-on-year improvement in 14 months. Broken down by product type, the production...
