Ube Industries Ltd. (TYO:4208) has begun looking into plans that would double the company’s current Thai production capacity for polycarbonate diol (PCD). Polyurethane made using PCD exhibits excellent wear resistance...
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Ube Industries Plans Full-Scale Entry Into Drug Substance Market for Generics
Ube Industries Ltd. (TYO:4208) is looking to enter into the market of pharmaceutical ingredients for use in generic drugs by the end of this year. The company already engages in...
Ube Industries Plans Capacity Increases for Butadiene Rubber in High-Demand Areas
Ube Industries Ltd. (TYO:4208) is looking to strengthen its global production system for butadiene rubber (BR), which is used in such applications as automotive tires. To this end, the company...
Ube Industries to Restart 1,6-Hexanediol Production in Yamaguchi
Ube Industries Ltd. (TYO:4208) is planning next January to resume production of 1,6-hexanediol (1,6-HDL) at its Ube Chemical Factory in Yamaguchi Prefecture. The factory stopped production of the crystalline solid...
Ube Industries Plans 40% Increase to LiB Separator Production
Ube Industries Ltd. (TYO:4208) is looking to decide within the first half of fiscal 2018 on an investment that would boost its production capacity for lithium-ion secondary battery (LiB) separators....
Asian Market Grows Anxious Over Increasingly Tight Hydroquinone Supplies
An increasing sense of tightness is developing in Asia around the supply and demand of hydroquinone. Prices have increased by as much as 20 percent over last year, and the...
Ube Industries Looks to Revitalize Chemical Operations
Ube Industries Ltd. (TYO:4208) President Yuzuru Yamamoto recently gave a Tokyo press conference, offering up details on his company’s management and the progress of its current medium-term management plan, which...
Ube Industries Partners With Sumitomo Bakelite, Kohjin Bio to Offer Cell Culture System
Ube Industries Ltd. (TYO:4208) has formed a three-way partnership intended to help it commercialize a cell culture system able to vastly increase the efficiency of biotechnology-based pharmaceuticals production. Using cell...
Ube Industries Develops New Urethane Resin for Preventing Concrete Deterioration
Ube Industries Ltd. (TYO:4208) has developed a new urethane resin with improved coating toughness and transparency for use with building materials in civil engineering. The new resin can be used...
Ube Industries Eyes New Plant in Americas to Produce DMC from Natural Gas
Ube Industries Ltd. (TYO:4208) has decided to establish a new chemical plant somewhere in the Americas, where the company will use its proprietary technology to synthesize chemicals from natural gas....
Chemical Industry Grapples With Rising Yen, Shale Influx
Fiscal 2018 is under way. Accounts have been settled for fiscal 2017, and as of this February all of Japan’s major chemical companies are expecting to see record highs on...
Ube Industries to Jointly Develop Automotive Lithium-Ion Starter Batteries
Ube Industries Ltd. (TYO:4208) has announced that it will join Mazda Motor Corp. (TYO:7261) and Eliiy Power Co. Ltd. in the development of lithium-ion starter batteries. Ube Industries will develop...
Ube Industries Develops Porous PI Membrane to Optimize Biopharma Production
Ube Industries Ltd. (TYO:4208) has developed a cell culture component able to significantly improve production efficiency for biopharmaceuticals. The developed product – a polyimide (PI) membrane with a special porous...
Ube Industries Targets New Applications for Polyamide 12-Based Thermoplastic Resin
Ube Industries Ltd. (TYO:4208) is working on developing new applications for its Ubesta XPA thermoplastic elastomer, a high-performance polyamide 12-based resin. Offering excellent hydrolysis resistance, the product maintains its rubbery...
Ube Industries Develops New TSU With up to 40% Greater Wear Resistance
Ube Industries Ltd. (TYO:4208) has developed a new thermoset polyurethane elastomer (TSU) with improved resistance to wear and distortion. By combining polyurethane raw material with a special polymer able to...
Ube Industries Moves Toward 300M Square Meter Annual Capacity for LiB Separators
Ube Industries Ltd. (TYO:4208) is continuing to make investments into increasing its production of separators, which are primary components of lithium-ion secondary batteries (LiBs). The company’s Sakai Factory in Osaka...
Ube Industries Develops New Nylon 12 Resin With High EVOH Adhesion
Ube Industries Ltd. (TYO:4208) has developed a new grade of nylon 12 resin that can be manufactured at lower cost than conventional forms of the material widely used in applications...
Japan’s Major Chemical Manufacturers Post Record Profits in First-Half Results
All of Japan’s major chemical manufacturers have posted record highs on a net profit basis with their respective midterm settlement of accounts for September 2017. And with each of these...
Mitsubishi Chemical to Restart UK Electrolyte Plant Next Spring
Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. plans to resume operations at its U.K. electrolyte factory for lithium-ion secondary batteries (LiBs) in spring of 2018. The move comes in response to growing demand in...
Japan’s Best Path Forward to Survive the Global Chemical Industry’s Changing Tides – Part 8
The birth of DowDuPont Inc. raises questions as to what developments we can expect to see now in what is something of a final frontier in terms of company realignments...
