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Arlanxeo debottlenecking HNBR plants to meet growing market demand
Added: 1 Dec 2023
Upgrades at facilities in Germany, US to increase hydrogenated nitrile-butadiene rubber supply
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German rubber industry 'sounds alarm' amid tire plant closure moves
Added: 1 Dec 2023
“We'll be gone,” warns WDK president in a statement following extensive cuts by two major tire make…

Toyoda Gosei starts up airbags, safety systems manufacturing plant
Added: 1 Dec 2023
South China unit to address anticipated increase in automotive production, safety regulations

Hutchinson names new senior leader for aerospace, defence and industry operations
Added: 1 Dec 2023
Nicolas Orance joins Hutchinson’s executive committee from French military supplier Aresia

Rubber & tire industry in numbers
Added: 1 Dec 2023
Review of the key figures and data to emerge this week from leading players in the tire & industry
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ERJ: News stories of the week
Added: 1 Dec 2023
Most widely-read news reports posted on the European Rubber Journal website over the last seven days

General Science investing €110m in China tire expansion
Added: 30 Nov 2023
Upgrade project to add 6 million units per year of passenger car tire capacity at Wuxi site

Linglong assessing locations for new tire manufacturing plant
Added: 30 Nov 2023
Chinese group conducting “on-site inspections, analysis and comparisons” for third overseas product…

Pyrum changes location of second German tire pyrolysis plant
Added: 30 Nov 2023
Water-protection requirements for second Saarland unit would have required “considerable additional…

Desma announces top management change in Slovakia
Added: 30 Nov 2023
Branislav Pavlik to take over as 'sole' leader in January, as Wolfgang Tarrach returns to Germany
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Essentially Rubber: Time for "skin-friendly" eco-TPEs
Added: 30 Nov 2023
Leading-edge designs and applications showing how elastomer materials...

Dynasol names Quimipol as emulsion rubber distributor
Added: 30 Nov 2023
Exclusive rights to Químicos y Polímeros Corp. to “centralise the operations of the distribution ma…

ERJ Future Tire & Rubber Innovation Awards 2024
Added: 29 Nov 2023
New event to recognise advances and developments that significantly enhance the performance and sus…

Michelin announces plant closures in Germany, loss of 1,532 jobs
Added: 29 Nov 2023
Closing production sites in Karlsruhe, Trier, Homburg, relocating customer support centre to Poland…

German union “not giving up” on Michelin sites
Added: 29 Nov 2023
IGBCE calls for strategies to avoid French group's “shock” closures and relocation plan

Tire industry CEOs commit to new sustainability plan
Added: 29 Nov 2023
Two-year TIP workplan to address emissions and ELT processing, enhance circularity & sustainability…

Sumitomo Riko building rubber components plant in Japan
Added: 29 Nov 2023
New facility to manufacture antivibration systems for railway vehicles, parts for engineering and c…

Trelleborg divesting US offshore oil & gas operation
Added: 29 Nov 2023
Swedish group divested majority of oil & gas operations in 2021

Tire & rubber reinforcement maker expanding operations
Added: 29 Nov 2023
Beaver to more than double scale of current reinforcement manufacturing facility in Mexico

Pyrum trims sales forecast on lower volumes
Added: 29 Nov 2023
Nine-month results influenced by high level of investment in flagship factory, increase in personne…