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Kumho recalling tires in US for belt issue

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

Natural rubber still weak, cartel mooted

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…

Feature  – JK Tyre maps out road to automation

IOM3 Elastomer Group ‘five-minute’ meeting set for London

Added: 3 Dec 2025

Over 20 speakers to give snapshot talks on current challenges and solutions for the rubber industry

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