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...
Covestro Japan Ltd. has announced that Sumika Covestro Urethane Co. Ltd.’s Niihama plant received a special award for excellence in safety from the Japan Chemical Industry Association (JCIA) in May. The award recognizes the plant’s twentieth year of zero shutdowns and zero operation halting disasters, an achievement the plant marked in June 2016. The facility continues to hold a global...
The Toyohashi production facility of the business unit Rhein Chemie Additives (BU ADD) of Lanxess K.K. announced that as of Nov. 30, 2015 it had reached 7,500 consecutive days without an accident. A ceremony to mark this milestone was held on Jan. 27, 2016. This marks more than 25 years of safe operation since the site went onstream. The Toyohashi...
