Shin-Etsu Chemical Co. Ltd. (TYO:4063) has announced a price change for all of its silicone products. Starting from shipments for January next year, the company will raise prices by 10 to 20 percent. The price of metallic silicon – a main raw material for silicone – has risen, and further increases are expected, a Shin-Etsu representative says. As it has...
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Japan’s Top 100 Rubber Companies Total Around 4 Trillion Yen in Sales for 2016
Japan Rubber Weekly recently conducted a study of the top 100 companies in Japan’s rubber industry, analyzing their business performance for fiscal 2016. Of these 100 companies, 48 posted a year-on-year revenue increase. Seven companies managed a double-digit increase to revenue, including NOK Elastomers Processing Co. Ltd., which ranked 42nd out of the 100 companies with an 11.9 percent increase,...
Shin-Etsu Polymer Achieves Strong First Quarter Results
Plastics processing company Shin-Etsu Polymer Co. Ltd. (TYO:7970) achieved net sales of 18.98 billion yen ($172.27 million) for the first quarter of fiscal 2018 (April–June 2017), up 5.8 percent year-on-year. Shin-Etsu Polymer’s operating income for the first quarter of fiscal 2018 was 1.68 billion yen, up 2.3 percent year on year. The company achieved an ordinary income of 1.85 billion...
Shin-Etsu Polymer Discloses 2016 Business Performance
Shin-Etsu Polymer (TYO:7970) recently gave details of its business performance for the fiscal year ending March 2017. The company, which manufactures products for silicone rubber molding and value-added resin treatment, made 73,979,000,000 yen ($663.79 million) in sales, down 1.4 percent from last year; 5,511,000,000 yen in operating profit, up 34.4 percent; 5,934,000,000 yen in ordinary profit, up 30.9 percent; and...
Shin-Etsu Polymer Looks to Get Active in M&As
Shin-Etsu Polymer Co. Ltd. (TYO:7970) plans to solidify and build upon its current position by seeking out companies to acquire, CEO Yoshiaki Ono has revealed. Viewing the establishment of new business as critical to extending company performance over the mid–long term, the manufacturer of silicone goods and other chemical products is looking to get active in M&As. In terms of...
Shin-Etsu Polymer Increases Q1 Profits Despite Slight Drop in Sales
A major manufacturer of silicone products for the electronics and information industries, Shin-Etsu Polymer Co. Ltd. (TYO:7970), posted first quarter sales of 17.937 billion yen ($1.79 billion), representing a year-on-year decline of 1.1 percent. Meanwhile, operating profit for the same April–June period increased 118.5 percent, rising to 1.645 billion yen; pretax profit rose 3.9 percent, hitting 1.196 billion yen; and...