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Rubber futures ‘mixed’ amid ‘severe flooding’
Added: 2 Dec 2025
Weakening demand caps price rises as heavy rains hit Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia
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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

IOM3 Elastomer Group ‘5 minute’ meeting set for London
Added: 2 Dec 2025
Over 20 speakers to give snapshot talks on current challenges and solutions for the rubber industry

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
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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 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 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’
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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
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