well.............i hope WE in USA learn from this.............every country should have back up plans........maybe the things we import from japan ...we can learn to make here in the USA........to increase our jobs and have more available........here in our own country..........I sure HOPE the powers that be will be watching and listening and learning ........IF NOT then we deserve to not have them
rafter
Since 1999
Rex Jackson
Has No Life - Lives on TB
http://www.made-in-japan.bz
GM & Ford use Japanese parts in all their cars I believe.
Yamaha makes all kinds of Electronics.
GM & Ford use Japanese parts in all their cars I believe.
Yamaha makes all kinds of Electronics.
jed turtle
a brother in the Lord
i really like my lithium ion battery powered ryobi tools. i can see i need to buy another backup battery right now.
Bumping this thread because there is a similar one in the BS that I had to close (not BS material), but the info is important. BigMikeM16 on that thread mentioned that oxygen absorbers are made there, which was important to me.
theoriginaldeb
Still A Geology Fanatic
Oxygen absorbers?--glad I have a supply already.
I do a lot a Asian cooking. Japanese products are the best.
I went to the local Asian grocery the other day to see how they are doing on availability of product. Some stuff was starting to run low--they had lots of Nori but sticky sushi rice was almost gone.
did a google search to see if i could come up with anything else:
* Ethylene oxide (EO) and ethylene oxide derivatives (OED) - As supply chains of raw materials have been disrupted and major detergent and cleaning product manufacturers have been doing their best to meet demand for disinfectants, cleaning products and paper diapers in earthquake-ravaged areas, a severe shortage has arisen in the production of such products among Japanese companies, prompting them to seek support from Taiwanese producers. ... However, Taiwanese manufacturers can only meet 60% of the increased demand.
*Dyestuffs and pigments are produced in Japan along with a range of other imaging chemicals such as waxes, resins, charge-control agents, and surfactants used to produce toners, inks, and parts critical to printers and copiers. Japan also manufactures many of the chemicals used in coatings and substrates for paper and media. In addition to manufacturing base chemicals, a number of companies also produce cartridge components and finished toners and inks.
*Of most concern is a likely shortage of bismaleimide triazine resin, which is used as an insulating material in a wide range of printed circuit boards and integrated-circuit substrates.
*Also out of commission are two facilities that together represent one-fourth of the world’s capacity for silicon wafers, the base material for semiconductor fabrication. Shin-Etsu Chemical says it doesn’t know when it will be able to restart its Shirakawa facility in Fukushima prefecture, a giant plant that produces about 20% of the world’s wafers.
*About 50 percent of the 300-millimeter silicon wafers -- the raw material for the most advanced computer chips -- is produced in Japan, according to Gartner, a technology research firm. The country also produces more than half of some key materials used in photolithography, the process that makes chips out of silicon.
*Japan also manufactures about 90 percent of an obscure chemical called bismaleimide triazine, which is crucial to the production of the latest microchips used in devices such as smartphones and laptops, said Klaus Rinnen, an analyst who covers semiconductor manufacturing at Gartner.
*Production of liquid-crystal displays is likely to be disrupted as well, according to the Taipei-based market research firm DisplaySearch. In a report, the firm observes that three Japanese companies—Mitsui Chemicals, Kanto Denka Kogyo, and Central Glass—account for roughly 30% of the world’s output of nitrogen trifluoride, a cleaning gas used in display manufacturing. Japanese production of the gas, which was already in tight supply before the quake, could be disrupted by irregular electricity output in Japan and by damage to a Kanto Denka plant, according to DisplaySearch.
*DisplaySearch also notes that indium tin oxide, a transparent conductor used in liquid-crystal displays, is made mostly in Japan. The world’s largest producer, JX Nikko, has stopped production at a plant located 50 miles from the troubled Fukushima nuclear reactors, DisplaySearch says.
* Japan is a key producer -- and in some cases the dominant one -- of many components at the heart of high-tech items such as PCs, smartphones and Apple's iPad. Production and distribution of many of those parts has been disrupted by the earthquake, tsunami, nuclear crisis and electrical blackouts that have roiled Japan since last week. Many parts for the iPad 2 -- including its battery, storage, memory and the glass for its touchscreen -- are made in Japan, according to iSuppli.
*A new report from the Wall St. Journal notes that Apple is experiencing shortages of the lithium-ion batteries used in its line of iPods. Going down the supply chain, Apple traced the shortage back to a Japanese chemical manufacturing company called Kureha Corp.
* Ethylene oxide (EO) and ethylene oxide derivatives (OED) - As supply chains of raw materials have been disrupted and major detergent and cleaning product manufacturers have been doing their best to meet demand for disinfectants, cleaning products and paper diapers in earthquake-ravaged areas, a severe shortage has arisen in the production of such products among Japanese companies, prompting them to seek support from Taiwanese producers. ... However, Taiwanese manufacturers can only meet 60% of the increased demand.
*Dyestuffs and pigments are produced in Japan along with a range of other imaging chemicals such as waxes, resins, charge-control agents, and surfactants used to produce toners, inks, and parts critical to printers and copiers. Japan also manufactures many of the chemicals used in coatings and substrates for paper and media. In addition to manufacturing base chemicals, a number of companies also produce cartridge components and finished toners and inks.
*Of most concern is a likely shortage of bismaleimide triazine resin, which is used as an insulating material in a wide range of printed circuit boards and integrated-circuit substrates.
*Also out of commission are two facilities that together represent one-fourth of the world’s capacity for silicon wafers, the base material for semiconductor fabrication. Shin-Etsu Chemical says it doesn’t know when it will be able to restart its Shirakawa facility in Fukushima prefecture, a giant plant that produces about 20% of the world’s wafers.
*About 50 percent of the 300-millimeter silicon wafers -- the raw material for the most advanced computer chips -- is produced in Japan, according to Gartner, a technology research firm. The country also produces more than half of some key materials used in photolithography, the process that makes chips out of silicon.
*Japan also manufactures about 90 percent of an obscure chemical called bismaleimide triazine, which is crucial to the production of the latest microchips used in devices such as smartphones and laptops, said Klaus Rinnen, an analyst who covers semiconductor manufacturing at Gartner.
*Production of liquid-crystal displays is likely to be disrupted as well, according to the Taipei-based market research firm DisplaySearch. In a report, the firm observes that three Japanese companies—Mitsui Chemicals, Kanto Denka Kogyo, and Central Glass—account for roughly 30% of the world’s output of nitrogen trifluoride, a cleaning gas used in display manufacturing. Japanese production of the gas, which was already in tight supply before the quake, could be disrupted by irregular electricity output in Japan and by damage to a Kanto Denka plant, according to DisplaySearch.
*DisplaySearch also notes that indium tin oxide, a transparent conductor used in liquid-crystal displays, is made mostly in Japan. The world’s largest producer, JX Nikko, has stopped production at a plant located 50 miles from the troubled Fukushima nuclear reactors, DisplaySearch says.
* Japan is a key producer -- and in some cases the dominant one -- of many components at the heart of high-tech items such as PCs, smartphones and Apple's iPad. Production and distribution of many of those parts has been disrupted by the earthquake, tsunami, nuclear crisis and electrical blackouts that have roiled Japan since last week. Many parts for the iPad 2 -- including its battery, storage, memory and the glass for its touchscreen -- are made in Japan, according to iSuppli.
*A new report from the Wall St. Journal notes that Apple is experiencing shortages of the lithium-ion batteries used in its line of iPods. Going down the supply chain, Apple traced the shortage back to a Japanese chemical manufacturing company called Kureha Corp.
Eggs! We import eggs? How nutzo is this?
LoupGarou
Ancient Fuzzball
You might want to take a look at my thread in the preps SIG. http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?212638-12-volt-preps At the end of the thread, I have a way to run the 12V and 14.4V tools (I use Ryobi, but not limited to them), off of one 12V lead acid battery. I will be posting the way to do it with 18V and 24V tools as well next week.
And a small 12V 12AH battery will run the drills for days of use on a charge. Plus it makes the tools lighter since the battery pack is now practically empty.
Loup
jed turtle
a brother in the Lord
thanks Loup. i'll check that out. eventually, all the batteries wear out. i can see ultimately falling back on compressed air perhaps to run all the "portable" tools, but until then, the lithium ion batteries are the cat's meow.
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
This is important even for non-artists types as your clothes, bedding, towels, car interiors, exteriors, house paints, so on and so forth are colored with many of the dyes and pigments that are manufactured in Japan.
Think major price hike here.
K-
I had been wanting some good rechargeable batteries.When i did some research,i found most of the best ones were made in Japan.While they were still available,i ordered 20 each AA and AAA.I ordered Eneloop nickle metal hydride.They can be charged 1500 times.They come pre charged and will hold their charge on the shelf for 3 years.