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Apollo responds to BSE question over Malaysian plan

Raw materials costs, sluggish OE demand weigh on Apollo Tyres earnings

Added: 11 Feb 2025

Indian tire maker notes “flattish trend” in the current quarter

WDK urges business-friendly policy to replace “absurd” EU bureaucracy

Added: 11 Feb 2025

Klein calls for more ambitious EU Commission initiative to simplify reporting obligations

Expert says NR demand to grow 3.2% in 2015

Comment:  Formula 1 racing towards sustainability?

Added: 11 Feb 2025

Former leader makes the case for the Fair Rubber Association's approach to sustainable sourcing...

Hainan Rubber posts drop in net losses

Hainan Rubber expects 70% drop in 2024 profit despite higher NR prices

Added: 11 Feb 2025

Typhoon Makar, other ‘non-core’ businesses impacted profits significantly

Essentially Rubber: Graphene nanotubes advance skin electrodes

Added: 11 Feb 2025

Silicone electrodes exhibit “unmatched skin comfort and outstanding body adhesion”

EC approves €117m investment aid for Nexen Czech plant

Nexen results hit by "weak" North America despite record revenue

Added: 10 Feb 2025

Downstream distribution costs, including logistics and warehousing, weighed on operating results

Datwyler “cautiously optimistic” despite 33% decline in earnings

Added: 10 Feb 2025

Swiss group links lower earnings to one-off effect of restructuring launched in final quarter of 20…

Petronas scrubs elastomers from RAPID project

Tyros to build tire pyrolysis plant at Belgian port

Added: 10 Feb 2025

Site will eventually process 100ktpa of tires, of which almost 20% will be via on-site pyrolysis...…

Bridgestone adds driving simulator to enhance tire development

Added: 10 Feb 2025

New ‘driver-in-the-loop’ simulator added to group’s EMEA research & development base in Rome

Polycomp: Driving innovation in high performance rubber compounds

Added: 10 Feb 2025

Specialist in developing and producing high-performance compounds for demanding and critical applic…

Compounders group probes legality of EU force majeures

Cabot carbon black sales down on softer volumes in US

Added: 7 Feb 2025

Europe volumes increase as sanctions on supply from Russia, Belarus come into full effect

Zeon rejects reports of general-purpose rubber restructuring

Zeon upgrades earnings forecast as elastomer margins improve

Added: 7 Feb 2025

Elastomers division reports 4% increase in earnings despite year-on-year dip in volumes

Rubber & tire industry in numbers

Added: 7 Feb 2025

Review of the key figures and data to emerge over the last seven days from leading players worldwid…

RMA: US tire shipments look flat in 2016

VCI explores impact of US tariffs on global trade

Added: 7 Feb 2025

German institutes forecast “serious economic disruptions" in North America, lesser impacts elsewher…

Birla claims breakthrough in bio-based rubber additives

Bridgestone, partners intensify work to commercialise plant-based tires

Added: 6 Feb 2025

Collaborating with Eneos Materials and JGC Holding to produce bio-tires by first half of 2030 

SK Global Chemicals closing South Korea EPDM plant  

Cabot chief assesses US tariffs' impact, calls situation ‘very dynamic’

Added: 6 Feb 2025

The effect of tariffs will vary from country to country, but could impact overall underlying demand…

Goodyear reaches $2m settlement over Danville workplace deaths 

Goodyear announces 850 job cuts linked to TBR plant repurposing

Added: 6 Feb 2025

US tire maker focusing on mixing and aviation tires at Danville factory, moving TBR production to o…

Contec, Orion ink tire pyrolysis oil supply agreement

Added: 6 Feb 2025

“Long-term” deal to meet growing demand for ‘circular’ carbon black in tires, rubber goods

Yokohama TWS strengthens EMEA operations with Turkish subsidiary

Added: 6 Feb 2025

Off-highway tire maker says Turkey a 'key market', particularly in agriculture tire sector

But these cutbacks could potentially be advantageous for producers as a tight market usually brings about price increases – which have already been announced by the likes of Cabot, Orion, Sid Richardson and Omsk Carbon.

PCBL: Russia carbon black sanctions 'impacting margins'

Added: 5 Feb 2025

Indian supplier expects to find new buyers in Europe as Russian manufacturers target Asia