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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
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…
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
ERJ Business Briefing
Added: 3 Dec 2025
Carbios PET bio-recycling in China... Ineos investing €250m in French site... Trelleborg opens Viet…
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
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…
