"Manga: Sumitomo Riko's Business" is a project launched to let people learn about our Group's wide-ranging businesses easily through comics. Ms. Riko Tomoi, a newcomer to the Public Relations Department, learns about our "Automotive (Mobility)", "Infrastructure and Housing environment", "Electronics", and "Healthcare" business fields while going around gathering data. We hope you will read about Ms. Tomoi's growth and our Group's businesses.
Episode 1: Anti-vibration Rubber for automobiles 1
The Sumitomo Riko Group's core products, which have a world-leading market share. What are these "anti-vibration rubber" that are so essential for automotive safety, security, and comfort?
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Episode 2: Anti-vibration Rubber for automobiles 2
Ms. Tomoi understands the need for anti-vibration products from the homework her superior gave her. But there are many more amazing technologies than she researched. What are the ways of controlling vibration from the road and the engine?
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Episode 3: Automotive Hoses
Aren't hoses just for water to flow through? Some carry gasoline, others carry coolant or air... Every single hose is packed full of the latest technologies.
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Episode 4: Sound Controlling & Insulation Products and Interior Equipment
It is easy to take comfort for granted when it becomes commonplace. What products help to make car interiors quiet and comfortable? The Sumitomo Riko Group's technologies are also ushering in the future.
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Episode 5: Seal Products
In today's cars, windows and doors can be opened and closed simply by pressing a button. These car bodies have a wire harness routed throughout. What are the seal products that contribute to safety, security, and comfort resulting from increased electrical equipment?
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Episode 6: Industrial Hoses
Sumitomo Riko Group products are not only for automobiles. Industrial hoses are utilized in many places such as factories, construction sites, and so on. What are the features of their production and sale?
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Episode 7: Anti-vibration Rubber for rolling stock
Anti-vibration rubber products are not only used in automobiles. They support high-speed rail networks connecting all regions, including conventional trains as well as Shinkansen trains.
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Episode 8: Rubber Bearings for bridges
Anti-vibration rubber products reduce vibration. These products are found not only in vehicles such as cars and trains but also underneath the bridges over which those vehicles run.
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Episode 9: Landscape Materials
Walls go unnoticed without special attention because they are such an everyday sight. Landscape materials that protect buildings and tunnels and make them aesthetically appealing.
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Episode 10: Components for office automation equipment
Components for office automation equipment such as printers used in daily work. Products that contribute to smooth and neat printing.
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Episode 11: TRC dampers (Seismic dampers for wooden houses)
"TRC dampers," seisemic dampers that protect houses from the threat of earthquakes. A special viscoelastic rubber used in the dampers instantly absorbs seismic energy. The structure of these dampers is also effective in repeated earthquakes.
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Episode 12: Housing environment products
Various dampers that protect buildings from earthquakes or reduce noise from upper floors. And "Refleshine", a heat shielding and heat insulating film for attaching to windows. Sumitomo Riko’s products are helping to improve the quality of people’s lives.
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Episode 13: AquaGreen Flexographic Printing
Expanding into printing materials with our polymer materials technology.What is AquaGreen, kind to people and the environment, enabling printing onto plastic food wrap, paper diapers, etc.?
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Episode 14: Smart Rubber (SR) Sensor
SR sensor is a technology for measuring and visualizing pressure and sharing that information. Leveraging the properties of rubber, what kind of healthcare products will contribute with compassion to our super-aging society?
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Episode 15: New Products and Future Products
Products that respond to progress in mobility, such as EVs (electric vehicles) and FCEVs (fuel cell electric vehicles). Our accumulated technological capabilities will lead to future products such as healthcare products, robot exteriors, and so on.
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Episode 16: Materials
Anti-vibration rubber parts, hoses, and products in other fields. The job of the Materials Business Unit is to create the rubber compounds from which our Group’s products are made. What are the technologies behind these high-performance products? Thank you for reading up to Episode 16, the final episode.
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