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Rubber & tire industry in numbers
Added: 5 Dec 2025
Review of the key figures and data to emerge over the last seven days from leading players worldwide
USTMA revises down 2025 tire shipment outlook
Added: 5 Dec 2025
Full-year shipments forecast still above prior-year level, marking record figures
Global Tire Report 2025: Staying on top but in a lower gear
Added: 5 Dec 2025
Stability among leading players amid pressure on sales, gains by challengers further down the ranki…
ERJ Business Briefing
Added: 5 Dec 2025
Mitsui elastomer ramp-up?...Desma targets EV 'boom'... Ammega acquires... Carbios PET bio-recycling…
Fukoku Rubber earnings fall on rising costs, lower sales
Added: 5 Dec 2025
Japanese group expects ‘steady recovery’ for automotive demand but outlook remains uncertain
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UK chemicals makers “facing unprecedented challenges”
Added: 5 Dec 2025
CIA: Industry battling “unforgiving business environment, hostile policy environment…”
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Tokai Carbon in waste-derived CO2-to-carbon tie-up
Added: 5 Dec 2025
Waste-derived materials will then be used in producing conductive materials such as carbon nanotubes
ERJ Tire Tracker - News, developments, fitments
Added: 5 Dec 2025
Multistrada recalls 83k tires… Renault / Conti… YRC / Nissan… New Bridgestone tires… Pirelli bio-ti…
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
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…
