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Datwyler highlights e-powertrain sealing advances
Added: 27 Feb 2024
"Without a flawless performance of these sealing solutions, the e-drive is not ensured..."

Lion Elastomers in link-up for EPDM-based emulsion products
Added: 27 Feb 2024
Belgian company Emulco to use Lion’s L-EPDM as raw material for new line of water-based emulsions
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Sinochem starts 240ktpa polyols project in China
Added: 27 Feb 2024
Quanzhou City facility to increase ‘competitive edge’ in differentiated and high-end polyurethane m…

Pyrum delivers first recovered oil to BASF from new plant
Added: 27 Feb 2024
Delivery started following “positive sampling”, confirming new plant fulfils all required specifica…

Sustainable tire alliance AZuR adds Synthos, Sumitomo Rubber as new partners
Added: 27 Feb 2024
SRI is the fourth top-10 tire maker to join the alliance, and brings the total of tire makers takin…

Yokohama Rubber, Nexen become members of GDSO
Added: 27 Feb 2024
Tire makers confirm plans to expand use of RFID technology to enable analysis of tire data

Tire monitoring company Translogik supporting UK's TyreSafe
Added: 27 Feb 2024
Tire safety body gains access to latest monitoring technologies and opportunity to enhance data, re…

Goodyear expects EMEA challenges to persist
Added: 26 Feb 2024
There will still "be more work for us to do beyond 2025,” says CFO Christina Zamarro

UNECE progresses tire particle emissions project with measurement methodology
Added: 26 Feb 2024
Data collected through proposed methods to be used for determining tire abrasion limits

SI Group reorganises China production under new local partnership
Added: 26 Feb 2024
Links up with Liaoning Dingjide Petrochemical for manufacture of certain products, to sell assets i…

Continental divesting Finnish stud specialist Tikka Spikes
Added: 26 Feb 2024
Management buyout option will see both parties continuing supply, development and testing partnersh…

Sumitomo Rubber exceeds mid-term targets, turns North America profitable
Added: 23 Feb 2024
Japanese group to continue work on US tire plant, improve profitability of imported tires to the co…

ERJ: Rubber & tire industry in numbers
Added: 23 Feb 2024
Michelin... Bridgestone... Goodyear... Trelleborg... SRI... Continental... Freudenberg... WDK... Ca…

Nordmann announces new partnerships in Spain, DACH region
Added: 23 Feb 2024
German distributor signs agreements with Spanish manufacturer Condensia and chemicals supplier Weyl…

Pirelli signs insurance agreement linked to UN sustainability goals
Added: 23 Feb 2024
Developed in collaboration with insurance groups Generali GC&C and Aon, initiative focuses on train…

Enviro breaks ground on new Swedish tire recycling plant
Added: 23 Feb 2024
End-of-life tire pyrolysis unit in Uddevalla set to become operational by end of 2025

German rubber production down as industry loses ground to ‘non-EU’ rivals
Added: 22 Feb 2024
Rubber industry association WDK says a 10% increase in revenue “not enough to fully compensate” ris…

Automotive supplier Zhongding investing €260m in China R&D, chassis project
Added: 22 Feb 2024
Intelligent chassis project to focus on air suspension systems, sealing systems and other rubber pa…

Apollo Tyres reports 32% higher profits for third quarter
Added: 22 Feb 2024
Tire maker’s European operations “outperformed” market during the three month s to end of December …

Sumitomo Rubber divests Swiss medical rubber subsidiary Lonstroff
Added: 22 Feb 2024
Sells all shares of Lonstroff AG and its 100% subsidiary Lonstroff Medical Elastomers in Slovenia t…