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Rubber futures firm on short-covering ahead of year-end slowdown
Added: 16 Dec 2025
JPX: Trading activity expected to ease into holiday period, sentiment steady

Trelleborg opens medical manufacturing facility in Costa Rica
Added: 16 Dec 2025
Site offers finished medical devices, components and assemblies in one location...

Dawn Polymer to acquire 80% of SK synthetic rubber JV in China
Added: 16 Dec 2025
Deal includes planned transfer of EPDM technology and IP from SK affiliates

GPSNR closes “landmark year” as it strengthens collective commitment
Added: 16 Dec 2025
Group highlights launch of risk-based assurance system as "major milestone"

Porsche 911 GT3 rolling on Pirelli P Zero tires
Added: 16 Dec 2025
Two new dedicated fitments approved for the latest Porsche model

Sumitomo Rubber unifying communications under Dunlop brand
Added: 16 Dec 2025
Group secures Dunlop trademark rights across key regions as part of long-term strategy

Michelin advances bio-based butadiene project for synthetic rubber production
Added: 15 Dec 2025
BioButterfly project validates BR and SBR production, targets commercial rollout from 2026

VCI urges ‘rethinking Europe’ as chemicals outlook weakens
Added: 15 Dec 2025
Steilemann warns of falling utilisation rates, plant closures, and rising relocation risks

Bandag to build tire retreading factory in Georgia
Added: 15 Dec 2025
Project in to be carried out in in collaboration with Tegeta Motors, Bridgestone

COP30: ANRPC highlights key role of rubber smallholders
Added: 15 Dec 2025
Side-event at recent Brazil conference discussed importance of growers for ‘net-zero and beyond’
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ERJ Business Briefing
Added: 15 Dec 2025
Pyrum raises €13m… Rodolfo Comerio honoured… Pirelli retains CDP climate A rating… Apollo CDP leade…

ERJ Tire Tracker - News, developments, fitments
Added: 15 Dec 2025
JK rolls out ISCC+ tire… SRI to exhibit ‘sensing core’… Multistrada recalls 83k tires… Renault / Co…

ERJ Appointments Tracker
Added: 14 Dec 2025
New Michelin Iberia head... Synthomer board changes... Semperit extend CIO’s term… Titan management…

Rubber & tire industry in numbers
Added: 12 Dec 2025
Review of the key figures and data to emerge over the last seven days from leading players worldwide

Conti in talks to sell French retail arm to equity firm
Added: 12 Dec 2025
Over 130 BestDrive outlets and two retreading plants included in proposed divestment

Linglong hits 50, sets out ambitious goals
Added: 12 Dec 2025
Tire maker showcases latest innovations, future strategies at global partners event

RTAE: Natural rubber prices stay within tight range in November
Added: 12 Dec 2025
Automotive market uncertainties weigh on pricing of TSR20 block rubber grade, reports traders' asso…

Metso to divest loading and hauling business
Added: 12 Dec 2025
New owner for Haeggblom truck bodies, buckets and wear parts, retains rubber lining and ground tool…

European Sealing Association prepares for PFAS public consultation
Added: 11 Dec 2025
Urges industry to supply examples where PFAS-free alternatives are "unavailable or inadequate"

Toyo develops 96.5% sustainable concept tire
Added: 11 Dec 2025
With “an extremely low rolling resistance coefficient," tire features 61.5% renewable and 35% recyc…
