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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…

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

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

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…

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’
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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

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…”
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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…”
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