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Detecting tyre wear with waveforms – Yokohama Rubber unveils new method

Company News, International News

Yokohama Rubber and Alps Alpine have jointly developed a technology that automatically detects wear in car tyres. The tyre maker sees potential for this technology in self-driving vehicles and shared mobility fleets.

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  1. Tyre sensor development – Yokohama Rubber working with Alps Alpine
  2. Yokohama Rubber partners in tyre & road surface sensing tests
  3. Yokohama Rubber testing remote tyre pressure checking technology
  4. Yokohama Rubber a FTSE Blossom Japan company
21st April 2022/by Stephen

Bridgestone adds new centre & proving ground to Innovation Park

Company News, International News

With the opening of two new facilities, the Bridgestone Innovation Park in Japan is now fully operational. The facility in Kodaira, Tokyo has gained the B-Innovation innovation centre and B-Mobility proving ground.

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  1. Bridgestone opens ‘Global Disaster Prevention Center’
  2. Update: Bridgestone to boost radial aircraft tyre capacity
  3. Bridgestone closing 3 Diversified Products plants
  4. Capacity increase for 4 Bridgestone car tyre plants
21st April 2022/by Stephen

SRI: Testing breakthrough will lead to higher rubber yields

Company News, International News

Japanese tyre maker Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd. (SRI) says its collaboration in a research project has resulted in a technique that may improve natural rubber yields and even enable natural rubber biosynthesis within a laboratory.

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  1. Tyre energy to power vehicle electronics
  2. SRI: New technique for examining materials within tyre rubber
  3. Tyre wear detection added to SRI’s Sensing Core
  4. SRI team commended for ‘4D Nano’ research
19th April 2022/by Stephen

Yokohama Rubber a FTSE Blossom Japan company

Company News, International News

The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd. has been selected as a constituent stock in the FTSE Blossom Japan Sector Relative Index, an equity index designed to reflect the performance of Japanese companies that demonstrate strong environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices.

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  1. Yokohama Rubber selected for ESG indices
  2. Yokohama opens indoor winter tyre test facility
  3. Yokohama supporting Chelsea FC pre-season match
  4. Another Caterpillar platinum award for Yokohama
11th April 2022/by Stephen

Falken: Power generation tech measures tyre wear

Company News, International News

A joint project between Sumitomo Rubber Industries, parent company of Falken Tyre Europe, and Professor Hiroshi Tani of Japan’s Kansai University has resulted in the development of an innovative power generator for tyres. It generates electricity from the rotation of the tyre and uses this to power peripheral sensors installed within the tyre. In this way, the sensors can operate without the need for batteries.

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  1. Results of Sumitomo Rubber’s natural rubber research published
  2. SRI: New technique for examining materials within tyre rubber
  3. Tyre wear detection added to SRI’s Sensing Core
  4. SRI: Better tyre rubber through tomato research
7th April 2022/by Stephen

SRI: Better tyre rubber through tomato research

Company News

Tyres and tomatoes. At first glance these have little in common apart from the same initial letter, but Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd. may beg to differ. The Japanese manufacturer shares news of joint research work focusing on an enzyme that is found in tomatoes and has a similar structure to those involved in the biosynthesis of natural rubber.

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  1. SRI: New technique for examining materials within tyre rubber
  2. Results of Sumitomo Rubber’s natural rubber research published
  3. Tyre energy to power vehicle electronics
  4. Tyre wear detection added to SRI’s Sensing Core
9th March 2022/by Stephen

Asahi Kasei appoints Kudo president

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As of April 2022, Koshiro Kudo will assume the role of president of Asahi Kasei, with current president Hideki Kobori becoming the company’s chairman. Asahi Kasei states that with 40 years of corporate experience, the new president will “lead the company into a new century of its history” – the Japanese firm celebrates its 100th anniversary in May.

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  1. Asahi Kasei: “We have an ambitious plan for Europe”
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22nd February 2022/by Stephen

Bridgestone partnering in ELT raw material projects

Company News, International News

Bridgestone Corporation has commenced a joint programme with four other parties to develop chemical recycling technologies that can deliver high yields of isoprene from end-of-life tyres (ELTs). Earlier today it also announced the launch of a joint research and development project with one of these entities, Eneos Corporation, to extract raw materials from ELTs using pyrolysis with the aim of further using these materials to make new tyres.

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  1. Bridgestone celebrates 90th anniversary
  2. Caterpillar ‘Platinum’ certification for 4 Bridgestone tyre plants
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  4. Bridgestone limbering up for Tokyo 2020
18th February 2022/by Stephen

Capacity increase for 4 Bridgestone car tyre plants

Company News, International News

Bridgestone Corporation is expanding production capacity at four of its passenger car tyre plants in Japan. With an investment of approximately 8.2 billion yen (£52.8 million), capacity at the Tochigi, Hikone, Hofu and Tosu facilities will increase by approximately 6,200 tyres per day by the end of 2025, an amount that equals more than ten per cent of current capacity.

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  1. Growing EV/hybrid tyre demand: Bridgestone investing in Brazil
  2. Update: Bridgestone to boost radial aircraft tyre capacity
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3rd February 2022/by Stephen

Itochu bids $1.7 billion for Hitachi Construction Machinery stake

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Hitachi Construction Machinery (Europe) NV

Hitachi is selling around half its 51 per cent shareholding in Hitachi Construction Machinery Co Ltd for 200 billion yen (£1.271 billion; 1,524 billion euros; US$1.7 billion) to Kwik-Fit’s owner Itochu and investment fund Japan Industrial Partners, according to reports published by Nikkei on 13 January 2022. Itochu confirmed that it is “considering this matter”, but declined to give further details later the same day in a statement that read:

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  1. Yokohama to buy ex-Pirelli commercial/industrial tyre business Prometeon
  2. Yokohama’s Prometeon bid: Delayed by Covid, but nearing completion
  3. Mahansaria Tyres (MTPL) to buy Tyres International
  4. Yokohama offers US$2 billion for Trelleborg Wheel Systems as global off-highway tyre segment consolidates
13th January 2022/by Chris

Yokohama offers US$2 billion for Trelleborg Wheel Systems as global off-highway tyre segment consolidates

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Trelleborg

Yokohama Tire has bid around $2 billion for Trelleborg Wheel Systems in a move that could further expand the Japanese company’s growing off-highway tyre business. Sources close to the bid told Tyres & Accessories that Yokohama is currently in a due diligence process that is likely to be completed during the next month or so. Yokohama previously bid for Prometeon, the ex-Pirelli industrial/off-highway tyre business at the end of 2019. Despite ongoing discussions over the following year or so, that deal wasn’t completed. Yokohama appointed the former global head of Prometeon, Gregorio Borgo, as its European president earlier this year. Trelleborg Wheel Systems executives declined to comment on the reports.

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  1. Yokohama’s Prometeon bid: Delayed by Covid, but nearing completion
  2. Yokohama to buy ex-Pirelli commercial/industrial tyre business Prometeon
  3. Pirelli truck tyres separating and merging with Aeolus/ChemChina
  4. Trelleborg reorganisation brings greater prominence to tyres
14th December 2021/1 Comment/by Chris

Bridgestone sells tennis ball company

Company News

Another company within Bridgestone Corporation’s Diversified Products business will soon have a new owner. Bridgestone Sport Co., Ltd. (BSP) is selling all its stock in Bridgestone Tecnifibre Co., Ltd. (BSTF), a Thailand-based manufacturer and seller of tennis balls, to Japanese sport equipment company Yonex Co., Ltd. BSP withdrew from the tennis goods business at the end of 2020.

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  1. Bridgestone invests in Next Logistics Japan
  2. Bridgestone celebrates 90th anniversary
  3. Bridgestone investing in flagship mining tyre plant
  4. Bridgestone withdrawing from conveyor belt business
6th December 2021/by Stephen

Bridgestone closing 3 Diversified Products plants

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Bridgestone Corporation has announced plans to close three of its non-tyre production facilities. The Shikoku, Gifu and Gotemba plants in Japan, operated by Bridgestone Diversified Chemical Products, will respectively close in Q3 2022, Q1 2023 and Q2 2023, with their output taken up by the business’s remaining six facilities. Bridgestone expects that the 83 employees at the three plants will continue working for Bridgestone Diversified Chemical Products.

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  1. Caterpillar ‘Platinum’ certification for 4 Bridgestone tyre plants
  2. Bridgestone pausing production at 11 Japanese facilities
  3. Bridgestone limbering up for Tokyo 2020
  4. Bridgestone delisting from Nagoya Stock Exchange
26th November 2021/by Stephen

Linglong’s Drift Team Orange win double podium at Japan D1 Grand Prix

International News, Motorsport
Linglong

On 20 November the D1GP 2021 season finale started in Ebisu, Japan. Racing driver Naoto Suenaga,  part of Linglong Tire’s Drift Team Orange won the Tsuiso event while another Linglong driver, Mekuwa Kojiro, was the runner-up.

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  4. Team Toyo takes Japanese drift crown
22nd November 2021/by Chris

SRI: Lower full-year forecast despite profit bounceback

Company News

Although Sumitomo Rubber Industries’ (SRI) sales revenues and particularly profit for the first nine months of 2021 were healthily above those achieved a year earlier, the Japanese firm has downwardly revised its sales and profit forecast for full-year 2021.

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  1. SRI net income up 26.4% in 2013
  2. SRI team commended for ‘4D Nano’ research
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  4. Tyre energy to power vehicle electronics
11th November 2021/by Stephen
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