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Update: Elastomers for Sustainability Awards 2025

Added: 5 Nov 2025

Vote for the industry's most important sustainability projects - supporting comment(s) now requir…

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

Tyres Europe: EUDR proposals ‘set clock back by 18 months’

Added: 5 Nov 2025

Association says bureaucratic burden creates competitive imbalance between EU-made and imported tir…

Hexpol sets new 2030 targets, to step up focus on thermoplastics

Added: 5 Nov 2025

Group to combine organic growth with M&A as it enters “next phase”

Goodyear sales, earnings drop amid ongoing transformation scheme

Added: 5 Nov 2025

Third quarter impacted by lower volumes, sale of off-road tire business

Birla to raise carbon black prices in Americas 

Birla Carbon scaling up production of waste-tire-based carbon fillers

Added: 5 Nov 2025

Supplier aims to increase share of circular material to up to 10% of global portfolio

China’s Wanli Tire starts IPO guidance

Added: 5 Nov 2025

Company preparing A-share listing with Guangdong regulator

CIA welcomes findings of UK energy, net zero report

Added: 5 Nov 2025

Highest industrial electricity prices in Europe, around four times higher than those in the US and …

Goodyear reaches $2m settlement over Danville workplace deaths 

Goodyear divests chemical business to private equity firm Gemspring

Added: 4 Nov 2025

The $650 million deal brings Goodyear’s total proceeds from divestitures to $2.2 billion

Hainan Rubber to build plant for deproteinised NR 

NR futures ease as weaker China data weighs on sentiment

Added: 4 Nov 2025

Prices slip across major exchanges; physical premiums highlight margin pressure

Tosoh strengthens production system for bio-composite chloroprene rubber grades

Added: 4 Nov 2025

Company expands SG series output to meet expected rise in demand

Zeon reports dip in elastomers sales on lower volumes

Added: 4 Nov 2025

Synthetic rubbers unit hit by “sluggish demand amid weak market conditions for tires”

SI Group opens European innovation centre in UK

Added: 4 Nov 2025

Company expands global R&D network with new Four Ashes facility

Wevo develops thermally conductive silicone adhesive for EV battery modules, electronics

Added: 4 Nov 2025

Two-component RTV silicone adhesive combines ‘high thermal conductivity with structural strength an…

First tire rolls off production line at Wanli’s Cambodia plant

Added: 4 Nov 2025

New production base to official start commercial production early next year

Mesnac breaks ground on Cambodia tire & rubber machinery plant

Added: 3 Nov 2025

Project part of two Southeast Asian expansion programme announced last year

Cooper Standard raises sales, earnings

Added: 3 Nov 2025

Company expects “outstanding performance” to help it navigate temporary automotive disruptions

Goodyear consolidates global aviation business

Added: 3 Nov 2025

US tire maker appoints Joe Burke as new VP to lead segment

Kraton operations deemed "essential"

Kraton streamlining elastomer production at French site

Added: 3 Nov 2025

To end HSBC production in Berre to focus solely on USBC products

Chemical industry

IGBCE congress sets course for industrial policy reform

Added: 3 Nov 2025

German union calls for adjustments to EU emissions trading to protect energy-intensive industries

Bridgestone tires record strong results across winter, all-season and summer tests

Added: 3 Nov 2025

Auto Bild names tire maker joint winter tire 'manufacturer of the year'