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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

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…

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
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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

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…

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

Rubber futures ‘mixed’ amid ‘severe flooding’
Added: 2 Dec 2025
Weakening demand caps price rises as heavy rains hit Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia
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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

EU Parliament votes to delay deforestation regulation
Added: 1 Dec 2025
MEPs back simplification measures, with review due by April next year
