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Uncertainty looms over NR market as demand weakens

Rubber futures ‘mixed’ amid ‘severe flooding’

Added: 2 Dec 2025

Weakening demand caps price rises as heavy rains hit Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia

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

Update: Tariff-hit Chinese tire makers to “intensify” EU trade

EU Parliament votes to delay deforestation regulation

Added: 1 Dec 2025

MEPs back simplification measures, with review due by April next year

Prometeon Tyre mulls $400m expansion in Egypt 

Added: 1 Dec 2025

Chinese-owned tire maker seeks land for Alexandria upgrade and new free zone

Sumitomo Rubber to rename overseas subsidiaries under Dunlop brand

Added: 1 Dec 2025

Move includes subsidiaries in Europe, North America, Oceania, Middle East, Taiwan and Latin America…

Yokohama opens new passenger tire plant in China

Added: 1 Dec 2025

Completed ahead of schedule, Hangzhou plant has capacity to produce 9m tires/year in first phase

UK chemicals sector reports 60% decline in order books, sales

EU chemical sector remains under pressure as weak demand, high energy costs persist

Added: 1 Dec 2025

Cefic reports lower output, falling exports and rising imports in first eight months of 2025

IISRP adds two new members

IISRP to honour two rubber industry leaders

Added: 1 Dec 2025

Awards recognise contributions to epidemiology and rubber technology

Rubber & tire industry in numbers

Added: 28 Nov 2025

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

WDK wants parliamentary champion for industrial SMEs

Added: 28 Nov 2025

German rubber sector says challenges are “often misjudged” by policymakers

UPM launches ‘renewable functional fillers’ for rubber, plastics

UPM welcomes new EU bio-economy strategy

Added: 28 Nov 2025

Targets for bio-based content seen as key to scaling renewable materials

Kraiburg TPE highlights wider EV applications for thermoplastic elastomers

Added: 28 Nov 2025

Supplier cites new opportunities in powertrain, interior and exterior as OEMs ‘rethink concepts’

ERJ Tire Tracker - News, developments, fitments

Added: 28 Nov 2025

Conti for Ioniq 9... JK smart tire 'first'... YRC / Mercedes Benz... Pirelli bio-tires for McLaren……

IOM3 Elastomer Group outlines 2026 events schedule

Added: 28 Nov 2025

Christmas afternoon technical discussion meeting set for 19 Dec at IOM3 London HQ

Tata Chemicals plans major silica capacity expansion in India

Added: 27 Nov 2025

Chemicals major supplies silica for a range of tire and rubber applications

Shenma outlines €70m tire cord project in China

Added: 27 Nov 2025

Project in central Chinal includes 35ktpa PA66 industrial yarn, 26ktpa dipped tire cord 

Trelleborg opens new marine infrastructure plant in Vietnam

Added: 27 Nov 2025

New facility in Ba Ria–Vung Tau province to produce marine fenders, sealing systems and polymer com…