Tigers Polymer’s results for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, showed sales of 47.86 billion yen ($304.97 million), up 5.7% year-on-year; operating income of 3.19 billion yen, up 192.9%; ordinary income of 4.29 billion yen, up 129.2%; and net income of 3.02 billion yen, up 269.9%. By segment, sales in Japan increased 1.8% to 21.93 billion yen, and operating...
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Tigers Polymer to Set Up Subsidiary in Thailand
Tigers Polymer, a manufacturer of rubber parts for home appliances and automobiles, will establish a subsidiary in Rayong Province, Thailand. The subsidiary, tentatively named Tigerflex (Thailand), will be a wholly owned holding company and will manufacture rubber and resin products for home appliances and automobiles. It is scheduled to be established in October this year and to start operations in...
Tigers Polymer President Kentaro Watanabe Eyes Increased Sales, Production for 2018
Tigers Polymer Corp. (TYO:4231) President Kentaro Watanabe recently sat down with Japan Rubber Weekly to talk about his company’s overseas operations for 2017 and where he expects to see things go here moving forward. Sales for the industrial rubber and resin products manufacturer are generally in good shape across the Americas, Southeast Asia and China, Watanabe said, particularly in China....
Tigers Polymer Sees Robust First Half Due to Strong Rubber Sheet Demand
Rubber sheet manufacturer Tigers Polymer Corp. (TYO:4231) recently released strong business results for the first half (April–September) of the fiscal year ending March 2018. Robust results in the company’s rubber sheet business were evidenced by a nearly double-digit increase in revenue year-on-year. Demand from Tigers Polymer’s main customers in the civil engineering, construction and automotive industries was sluggish in the...
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,...
Japanese Rubber Companies Heavily Revise Earnings Projections
As companies are releasing their second-quarter earnings for the business year ending on March 31, 2017, some stand out for their revisions to projected full-year earnings. Cost-cutting boosted profits for some, while the higher yen hurt others. The following companies announced upward revisions to profit for the period: Achilles Corp. (TYO:5142), Okamoto Industries Inc. (TYO:5122), Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd. (TYO:5192), Tigers...