om the beginning of 2025 and be completed by the end of 2028. Bridgestone is pursuing business strategies focusing on high-value-added products such as HRD tires, and this enhancement of its production capacity is part of its strategic investment. The three plants subject to the investments are the Hikone Plant (Hikone City, Shiga Prefecture), the Tosu Plant (Tosu City, Saga Prefecture), ant the Tochigi Plant (Nasushiobara City, Tochigi Prefectur...

News  Updated at: 2024/11/26

Four Bridgestone tire plants in Japan win ISCC Plus certifications Bridgestone Corporation announced its four plants in Japan earned the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) Plus certificates. Starting in August 2023, the four Bridgestone factories, namely Kurume Plant in Kurume City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Tosu Plant in Tosu City in Saga Prefecture, Hikone Plant in Hikone City, Shiga Prefecture, and Tochigi Plant in Nasushio...

News  Updated at: 2023/10/02

Bridgestone to expand production capacity for premium passenger vehicle tires at four Japanese plants Bridgestone Corporation (Bridgestone) announced that it will increase the production capacity for passenger vehicle premium tires at four of its plants in Japan; Tochigi, Hikone, Hofu and Tosu Plant. With a total investment amount of about JPY 8.2 billion, Bridgestone will start construction in the first quarter of 2022 and plans to increase its ...

News  Updated at: 2022/02/09

for semiconductor production equipment. The company will respond to growing demand for semiconductors used in the electric vehicles (EVs) and 5G next-generation mobile communication systems. The new plant will be connected to the company’s main semiconductor production equipment plant, S-Cube 3 (Hikone City, Shiga Prefecture), to enhance production efficiency. The new plant, which will manufacture single wafer cleaning equipment, will start op...

News  Updated at: 2022/02/04

hat it has switched 100% of the electricity sourced from outside providers to renewable energy to power four domestic tire plants in Japan. The company has switched all the electricity sourced from external sources to renewable energy including hydro, geothermal, solar, and wind energy to power its Hikone Plant (Shiga Prefecture), Tosu Plant (Saga Prefecture), Shimonoseki Plant (Yamaguchi Prefecture), and Kitakyushu Plant (Fukuoka Prefecture). Th...

News  Updated at: 2021/07/12

JSS responds to non-conforming safety belt issues Joyson Safety Systems (JSS) issued a statement in response to the reporting of its Japanese subsidiary Joyson Safety Systems Japan (JSSJ) providing non-conforming safety belts to OEMs. According to the statement, JSS was conducting an investigation into belt webbing test data in the JSSJ’s Hikone, Japan, webbing manufacturing facility. The reporting issues arose long before the acquisition of th...

News  Updated at: 2020/10/14

les due to the spread of the new coronavirus. Bridgestone will suspend operations at its 12 plants in Japan, including 7 automotive tire plants: Kurume Plant (Kurume City, Fukuoka Prefecture); Nasu Plant (Nasushiobara City, Tochigi Prefecture); Tochigi Plant (Nasushiobara City, Tochigi Prefecture): Hikone Plant (Hikone City, Shiga Prefecture), Tosu Plant (Tosu City, Saga Prefecture); Amagi Plant (Asakura City, Fukuoka Prefecture); and Hofu Plant ...

News  Updated at: 2020/05/26

ill suspend operations from the end of April to early May. This is to reduce production because of the decline in demand due to the spread of the new coronavirus infections. Bridgestone’s seven automotive tire plants, including its mother plant, Kurume Plant (Kurume City, Fukuoka Prefecture), and Hikone Plant (a main passenger car tire plant in Hikone City, Shiga Prefecture) will stop operations for six days. The company previously planned to s...

News  Updated at: 2020/04/22

ed a new aluminum laminate film used as a packaging material for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) and will install equipment to mass-produce the new product. The new aluminum laminate film is intended for large LIBs, which are mainly used for vehicles. The equipment will be installed at Showa Denko’s Hikone Plant (Hikone City, Shiga Prefecture) and is scheduled to be operational in March 2021. The gross area of aluminum laminate films that Showa De...

News  Updated at: 2020/03/19

ompetitiveness by introducing its cutting-edge "Examation" tire assembling system utilizing information and communication technologies (ICT) with a new artificial intelligence (AI), to its plants outside Japan by the end of 2016. The Examation system has been only deployed at the company's flagship Hikone Plant so far. (From an article in the Nikkan Jidosha Shimbun on October 18, 2016)...

News  Updated at: 2016/10/18

Bridgestone receives Supplier Quality Excellence Award from GM Bridgestone Corporation announced that its Tosu Plant and Hikone Plant, which manufacture radial tires for passenger cars and light trucks, received the General Motors Company (GM) 2015 Supplier Quality Excellence Award. This is the first time that the two plants have received this award. Globally, the following Bridgestone Group plants also received 2015 Supplier Quality Excellence A...

News  Updated at: 2016/09/09

Bridgestone introduces AI control at Hikone Plant Bridgestone Corporation (Bridgestone) has introduced the new “Examation” tire assembling system, which utilizes information and communication technologies, at its Hikone Plant. Bridgestone has converted its material processing expertise, and data 480 quality categories for single tires into algorithms. The new Examation system uses artificial intelligence (AI) to automatically control tire as...

News  Updated at: 2016/06/14

idgestone regards the new AI technologies as next-generation technologies that are applicable to all production methods used at its plants in the world, and aims for early practical utilization. The company will develop the technologies mainly at its technical center in Kodaira City, Tokyo, and its Hikone plant (Hikone City, Shiga Prefecture). (From an article in the Nikkan Jidosha Shimbun on December 9, 2015)...

News  Updated at: 2015/12/09

Bridgestone to reorganize Tokyo Plant, transferring production of tires for passenger cars to Hikone Plant Bridgestone Corporation announced the company's Mid-term Management Plan for 2015 covering 5 years from 2016 to 2020. Under the Management Plan, Bridgestone will reorganize its Tokyo Plant located in Kodaira City, Tokyo. The company will transfer the production of tires for passenger cars and light-duty trucks at its Tokyo Plant to other dom...

News  Updated at: 2015/10/19

Showa Denko to double capacity to produce aluminum laminated films for lithium-ion batteries Showa Denko K.K. announced on August 23 that Showa Denko Packaging Co., Ltd., its subsidiary, will greatly increase its capacity to produce aluminum laminated films used for packaging lithium-ion batteries. Capacity will be raised at the Hikone Plant (Shiga Prefecture), which will install additional equipment to start new operations in the second half of ...

News  Updated at: 2012/08/27

Bridgestone completes installation of co-generation system at all of its plants in Japan Bridgestone Corporation has introduced a co-generation system at its Hikone plant, located in Hikone city, Shiga prefecture for production of passenger car radial tires delivered to central and western regions of Japan, beginning operations in January 2007. This completes the introduction of the co-generation system into its nine domestic tire plants, followi...

News  Updated at: 2007/01/05

Bridgestone Corporation has introduced a co-generation system at its Hikone plant, located in Hikone city, Shiga prefecture for production of passenger car radial tires delivered to central and western regions of Japan, beginning operations in January 2007. This completes the introduction of the co-generation system into its nine domestic tire plants, following Kurume plant and Hofu plant where the system was introduced in August 2005. This energ...

News  Updated at: 2007/01/05