Yokohama sets up high pressure hose unit Düsseldorf

ERJ staff report (DS)

Tokyo - The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd., said it has established Yokohama Industrial Products Europe GmbH as a hose assembly plant and sales/marketing operation in Düsseldorf, Germany. The new company's capital of 93,000 Euro was fully paid by Yokohama Rubber that expects the subsidiary to achieve sales of 1 billion yen after 3 years from now. The unit was officially set up in April 2009.

The new company will begin delivering high-pressure hoses to Japanese construction machinery makers in Europe in May this year. Its goal is to achieve just-in-time supply of high-pressure hoses and metal fittings by locally assembling them in cooperation with an European partner. Yokohama has already set up high-pressure hoses and metal fitting assembly plants in the United States, Thailand and China,

The new company will also approach the replacement market with the "Exceed" high-pressure hoses Yokohama Rubber had newly developed for sale in overseas. Exceed is compliant with the ISO 18752 international standard.

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Press release from Yokohama