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Michelin closing tire manufacturing plant in Brazil

Added: 1 Jul 2025

Factory in Guarulhos produces motorcycle and bicycle inner tubes, industrial tires and semi-finishe…

NR supply deficit fails to rekindle market

Rubber futures hit three-week highs on supply concerns

Added: 1 Jul 2025

Heavy flooding reported in China, northern Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines

Alfa Gomma: Court appoints board to 'ensure business continuity'

Added: 1 Jul 2025

Independent team to ensure “stable and shared governance” for group

US postpones Indian OTR anti-dumping ruling

India launches review of Chinese FKM import duties

Added: 1 Jul 2025

Present duties, ranging from $1.04/kg to $8.86/kg, will be in force until late November

Mitsubishi Chemical to market TPEs in Vietnam

Cefic study outlines five key actions to advance circular economy transition

Added: 1 Jul 2025

"Scaling circularity will require decisive action across the entire policy, business, and societal …

Kobelco to expand rubber, tire machinery plant in India

Added: 30 Jun 2025

Japanese group announces €18m investment plan to support automotive growth in India

Evonik adding capacity for polybutadiene products in China

Added: 30 Jun 2025

German supplier to ‘localise final step’ for production of Polyvest, which can be used in tire, rub…

BASF investing in German tire pyrolysis company

Pyrum given green light for early start of construction at second German plant

Added: 30 Jun 2025

Groundbreaking for new Perl-Besch facility set to take place next month

Contec delivers first shipments of tire pyrolysis oil to Orion

Added: 30 Jun 2025

Delivery part of a “long-term” deal for TPO supply for production of ‘circular carbon black’

Michelin signs €2m deal for employment revitalisation in Vannes

Added: 30 Jun 2025

French group pledges to create 'as many jobs as lost' after plant closure

Continental buys Czech tire machine tool maker

Conti says all European tire plants ISCC+ certified

Added: 30 Jun 2025

Continental’s tire manufacturing plant in Hefei, China, also receives certification

K2025 Preview: K stands for rubber

Added: 27 Jun 2025

Rubber and elastomer technologies will feature strongly across the halls at the upcoming polymer ex…

Michelin expects volume decline in 2025 as forex, inflation weigh on first half results

Added: 27 Jun 2025

French group says Cholet plant produced final tire in June, several months ahead of schedule

Rubber & tire industry in numbers

Added: 27 Jun 2025

Review of the key figures and data to emerge over the last seven days from leading players worldwide

Chemicals sector welcomes new ‘industrial framework’ for EU

Added: 27 Jun 2025

Cefic: Responds to industry calls to “restore the business case for investments in Europe…”

Freudenberg targets fuel cell, battery technology with acquisitions

Essentially Rubber – Innovation

Added: 27 Jun 2025

Bio-TPU for skiers... Trelleborg EV sealing... Hutchinson battery tech... BASF-Schwalbe 'circular' …

UPM gains triple sustainability certifications at soon-to-start biorefinery

Added: 27 Jun 2025

The €1.2bn Leuna facility will manufacture lignin-based functional fillers for tires, rubber produc…

Algerian tire maker advances €300m joint project with Doublestar

Added: 26 Jun 2025

Construction of rubber mixing workshop awarded to local company Rekima

Trelleborg inaugurates new facility extension in Malta

Added: 26 Jun 2025

Investment adds 4,000 sq.m. of manufacturing space for semiconductor and medical seals solutions

Klinger weighs potential impact of PFAS ban on fluoropolymer seals

Added: 26 Jun 2025

“Alternatives have consistently failed to meet at least one of these critical properties…”