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Eneos adding SSBR capacity in Japan

Added: 4 Dec 2025

Project to add 10ktpa of capacity at Yokkaichi plant by December 2027

CSRC maintains supply-shift strategy amid lower sales

Added: 4 Dec 2025

Group partially links lower revenue to generator failures at Oklahoma plant

General Science launches AI model for tire-quality control

Added: 4 Dec 2025

"Industry-first" inspection terminal aims to address bottlenecks in manual defect checks

ContiTech partners with Colipi on carbon-to-biomaterials project

Added: 4 Dec 2025

Biotech startup to use CO2-rich exhaust gases at Hamburg site to produce bio-based oils

Japan’s Kuraray increases elastomer prices

Kuraray raising elastomer prices

Added: 4 Dec 2025

A price hike of $1.00/kg will affect all Septon, Hybrar and TU-Polymers

ERJ Business Briefing

Added: 4 Dec 2025

Desma on e-mobility... Ammega acquires... Carbios PET bio-recycling in China... Ineos investing €25…

EC imposes anti-dumping duties on Chinese TBR tires

ACEA urges “course correction” ahead of EU automotive package

Added: 4 Dec 2025

Association says 2030–35 CO2 targets “no longer realistic” without major policy shift

Kumho recalling tires in US for belt issue

Kumho selects Poland for €500m European tire factory

Added: 3 Dec 2025

Korean tire maker adding new factory in South Korea, alongside planned facility in Opole, southwest…

Sumitomo Rubber acquires Dunlop brand rights in Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei

Added: 3 Dec 2025

Deal, effective beginning 2026, excludes aircraft and winter tires

Natural rubber still weak, cartel mooted

ANRPC notes ‘slower-than-anticipated’ growth in rubber production

Added: 3 Dec 2025

Erratic weather pattern contributes to ‘vulnerability of NR supply chain'

Bridgestone taps materials science for new Potenza tires

Added: 3 Dec 2025

NanoPro-Tech employed to optimise silica-polymer blend, enhance molecular structure

Hyundai Transys taps BASF TPU foaming technology for automotive seat concept

Added: 3 Dec 2025

Modular design uses “advanced material innovation” for headrest and armrest

Smithers invests in advanced rolling resistance testing in China

Added: 3 Dec 2025

Company adds 'three capabilities' at Suzhou centre to provide ‘more comprehensive insight’ into tir…

Feature  – JK Tyre maps out road to automation

IOM3 Elastomer Group ‘five-minute’ meeting set for London

Added: 3 Dec 2025

Over 20 speakers to give snapshot talks on current challenges and solutions for the rubber industry

Uncertainty looms over NR market as demand weakens

Rubber futures ‘mixed’ amid ‘severe flooding’

Added: 2 Dec 2025

Weakening demand caps price rises as heavy rains hit Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia

Daye advances €180m steel tire cord, bead wire project in Morocco

Added: 2 Dec 2025

Chinese supplier targets 2027 start-up for new overseas plant

Wacker strengthens silicone business in China with new speciality silanes tech centre

Added: 2 Dec 2025

Facility, built in partnership with Sico Performance Materials, focuses on organofunctional silanes

Thailand floods disrupt rubber output

Added: 2 Dec 2025

More than 600,000 hectares of plantations affected by late-November rainfall

Infiniteria names CEO

Added: 2 Dec 2025

Kajsa Ryttberg-Wallgren appointed new CEO of tire pyrolysis joint venture

Update: Tariff-hit Chinese tire makers to “intensify” EU trade

EU Parliament votes to delay deforestation regulation

Added: 1 Dec 2025

MEPs back simplification measures, with review due by April next year