Bridgestone will increase production capacity at Bridgestone NCR (BSNCR) in Thailand, a global supply base for hydraulic hoses. The total investment will be around 4.9 billion yen ($36.3 million). Capacity will be gradually built up starting in the second quarter of 2025, with global production capacity to be increased by approximately 30 percent from the current level by the first...
Shoe manufacturer Achilles is supporting Akitoshi Moriguchi in his push to break a Guinness World Record for rope skipping. Moriguchi, a professional rope skipper, is aiming to be the first in the world to achieve eight revolutions in a single skip. And to support this endeavor, Achilles is providing him with its Hyper Jumper shoes, which utilize Acrofoam – a...
NOK has completed its plans to boost production capacity for O-rings at its Vietnamese plant in Bien Hoa, Dong Nai. CEO Masao Tsuru and other NOK executives visited the plant on July 25 to mark the occasion. With an investment of approximately 3.5 billion yen ($26.78 million), NOK has increased its production space at the Vietnamese plant by around 40...
Toyoda Gosei has launched two new products as a collaboration between its sustainable product brand Re-S and partner Beams Japan. The products – both made out of recycled airbag fabric – are a vest with features appropriate for emergencies and a wrap that can be used as emergency headgear. Toyoda Gosei has already been offering other products under its Re-S...
The blanket division of Japan’s largest rubber roll manufacturer Kinyosha performed well in overseas markets in fiscal 2021 ending March 2022. And although demand in Japan for newspaper printing remained flat, that for offset – sheet-fed and commercial web offset – recovered. The company raised prices of all its products in the second half of the fiscal 2021, as cost...
Japan’s largest rubber roll manufacturer Kinyosha reported year-on-year increases in both sales and profit for fiscal 2021 ending March 31, 2022. Although demand fell due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, it recovered by March 2022 as the impact slowly subsided. In particular, blankets geared for overseas, rolls for films, rolls for OA equipment, and iron core-related products contributed...
