Yokohama Rubber MB Japan, a Japanese domestic industrial products sales company of Yokohama Rubber, has released a product with excellent flame retardant and oil resistance from its original brand Criterion steep inclined conveyor belt series Z (Zeta). This product is a conveyor belt that combines a special shape that enables conveyance at steep inclines and vertical conveyance, which is impossible...
Yokohama Rubber will participate in a public road test of trunk line transportation by Level 4 self-driving trucks conducted by T2, a company that develops self-driving trucks, and will conduct tire verification. The vehicle will be equipped with new truck and bus tires scheduled for release next spring to verify the performance required of tires for self-driving trucks. In the...
Yokohama Rubber, the University of Tsukuba, and the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) have developed a new image processing method to clearly visualize the internal nanoscale structure of rubber materials. Conventional electron microscope images are noisy and obscure the outline of the interior of rubber, but the new method clearly captures the network structure of reticular molecules and quantifies...
Yokohama Rubber has decided to close the plant of Alliance Tire, its subsidiary in Israel that produces and sells off-highway tires (OHT), including tires for agricultural machinery, at the end of December. The plant is one of more than 30 production bases that Yokohama Rubber operates globally and has been in operation for more than 70 years. It has 474...
Yokohama Rubber’s Iceguard 7 studless tires for passenger cars are now in their fourth season. The tire combines ice performance, snow performance, and long-lasting performance at a high level, providing absolute peace of mind on winter roads. In recent years, sales of SUVs and EVs have been on the rise in the Japanese market, but how well does the Iceguard...
Yokohama Rubber has revised upward its financial targets for its new medium-term management plan Yokohama Transformation 2026 (YX2026) announced on February 16. The company took into account the current strong performance, the realization of technology and production reforms that it will pursue, and the performance of the OTR (off-the-road tire) business to be acquired from Goodyear. It upwardly revised its...
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