Looking back the sales in the first half term (April to September) of FY 2014 of rubber business of KUREHA ELASTOMER CO.,LTD.(Chuo-ward, Osaka City, Terumoto Shiroeda President), after the temporary demand due to increase of consumption tax in March, the reaction did not stop by April or May but the influence lasted until June. After that, it started to recover a little in July and had recovered in September, therefore the sales increased slightly by approximately 2% compared to the same term in last year.
The company commented,