Biography of Representative

Career at The yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd. (YRC)

  • In 1975 YRC introduced rubber chip surface technology from Gesellschaft fuer Everplay Sportbelaege KG in West Germany at that time, then he was charged in material and installation technology. Since then he had been engaged in material technology of rubber chip/polyurethane resilient surfaces more than 25 years in YRC which was second largest manufacturer of various kinds of automobile tires and many kinds of industrial rubber products in Japan and overseas countries.
  • During that period, YRC installed rubber chip/PU binder+PUresin (sandwich structure type) surface in 1975 and water permeable surface from rubber chip/PU binder+PUresin spraying layer in 1991, both under CERTIFICATE of Japan Association of Athletic Federation at first time in Japan.
  • He contributed to make “SURFAM” bland top share and quality from technical side in the market by arranging many kinds of rubber chip surfaces. These specifications are succeeding to next company and still utilized now.

Transfer to yokohama Elastic Surface System Co., Ltd.

  • Due to reduction in sales, he transferred to newly founded company, yokohama Elastic Surface System Co., Ltd to succeed YRC’ elastic surface business by the request from YRC in 1999.
  • He developed “manufacturing method of colored rubber chips” in 2000 with cultivated technology in previous company. This colored chip from recycled rubber is used for aggregates of resilient surface. After establishing manufacture engineering for mass production, we started to put this new product in the market in 2003.

Foundation of yokohama Polymer chemical Co., Ltd.

He founded yokohama Polymer chemical Co., Ltd in 2004 to specialize in manufacturing this colored chip, and has been now developing new conceptual products around artificial turf market for further development.

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