Company Profile

Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, provides tires, sports, and industrial and other products in Japan and internationally. The company manufactures and sells a range of tires for various vehicles, such as passenger cars, trucks, buses, motorcycles, construction vehicles, agricultural vehicles, and race and rally cars, as well as for industrial vehicles under the Dunlop and Falken brands. It also offers aluminum wheels; golf and tennis goods; rubber parts for medical applications and office equipment; vibration control dampers; floor coating; civil works and marine facilities; artificial turf for sporting facilities; rubber gloves; gas hoses; and portable wheelchair ramps, as well as sports products, such as golf clubs, tennis rackets, and other sporting gear. The company was formerly known as Dunlop Rubber Company (Far East) Ltd. and changed its name to Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd. in 1963. Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd. was founded in 1909 and is headquartered in Kobe, Japan.