The Rubber Trading Association of Japan (RTAJ) mainly engages in natural rubber-related activities, including the dissemination of opinions on industrial and foreign policies related to natural rubber import transactions and the facilitation of natural rubber import transactions. However, Sanyo Trading, one of its regular members and board member companies, does not handle natural rubber. As an importer of synthetic rubber...
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Sanyo Trading Accelerates Supply of Biomass Silica
Sanyo Trading has recently signed a sole agency agreement for Japan with Brisil Technologies, a developer and manufacturer of biomass rice husk silica. The agreement will accelerate the supply of highly dispersible biomass silica for tire and rubber compounding to the Japanese market. Silica is an important raw material for fuel-efficient tires, and demand for silica is expected to grow...
Sanyo Trading Obtains ISCC PLUS Certification
Sanyo Trading, a raw materials trading company, has acquired ISCC PLUS certification, an international certification system for sustainable products. ISCC PLUS certified products include Perstorp polyols, trimethylolpropane, pentaerythritol, and dipentaerythritol (environmentally friendly grade). The ISCC PLUS certification enables the company to handle ISCC PLUS certified products worldwide, including outside the EU. The company has positioned sustainability initiatives as a key...
Sanyo Trading Opens Combined Database for Rubber Materials and Chemical Products
Raw material trading firm Sanyo Trading Co. Ltd. (TYO:3176) on April 1 launched the chemical product website Chembase (Japanese only). The new website will serve as a combined database for both the rubber materials and the chemical products handled by the Sanyo Trading Group. It contains the latest information on over 80 manufacturers and 110 product groups, allowing for a...
Sanyo Trading Posts Strong Results on Back of Rubber-Related Product Sales
Raw materials trading firm Sanyo Trading Co. Ltd. (TYO:3176) has posted a strong set of business results for the fiscal year ending September 2018. Over the period, the company achieved 78.45 billion yen ($688.8 million) in sales, up 15.8 percent year-on-year; 5.26 billion yen in operating profit, up 6.6 percent; 5.58 billion yen in ordinary profit, up 5.8 percent; and...