Toyoda Gosei posted a 23.8% increase in revenue to 259.32 billion yen ($1.8 billion) in the first quarter (April-June 2023) of the fiscal year ending March 31, 2024. The company further increased operating income by 421.4% to 16.38 billion yen, and net income by 344.0% to 11.61 billion yen. By segment, sales revenue in Japan increased 23.7% to 107 billion...
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Zeon Posts Q1 Results, Sees Declines in Sales and Profit
Zeon reported a 5.8% year-on-year decline in net sales to 91.9 billion yen ($648.9 million), a 43.0% drop in operating income to 6.1 billion yen, a 35.8% drop in ordinary income to 8.3 billion yen, and a 33.0% drop in net income to 5.8 billion yen for the first quarter of the year ending March 2024. In the elastomer materials...
Asahi Kasei’s Synthetic Rubber Business Misses Plan on Lower SSBR and BR Demand
Asahi Kasei’s synthetic rubber business fell short of its plan in terms of volume for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2023. Demand for both solution-polymerized styrene-butadiene rubber (SSBR), mainly for tire applications, and butadiene rubber (BR), mainly for non-tire and resin modification applications, declined in the second half. “All regions performed worse than expected. The rise in raw material...
Tokyo Materials Posts Business Results, Synthetic Rubber Sales up 22%
Zeon group company Tokyo Materials reported net sales of 54.09 billion yen ($376 million), up 14.8% year-on-year, ordinary income of 2.57 billion yen, up 4.5%, and net income of 1.89 billion yen, up 11.6% for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2023. In the same period, although there were signs of movement toward normalization of economic activities due to progress...
Report: Rubber Companies’ Business Results for Fiscal 2023
The business results for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2023, for rubber and resin-related companies are now available, and among the 31 companies, 14 companies, or nearly half, achieved a record high in either net sales, operating income, ordinary income, or net income. It can be said that many of the companies posted solid performance growth, but automobile production,...
Bridgestone’s Chemicals and Diversified Products Businesses Raise Profitability in First Quarter
Bridgestone’s Chemicals & Diversified Products business achieved higher revenues in the first quarter (January-March) of fiscal 2023. In particular, the chemical products business, whose profitability has steadily been improving, and the diversified business in the Americas (pneumatic springs), which is expected to expand into EVs, are showing positive results. The key is seen to be rubber technology, which the company...