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Shin-Etsu: Chinese market key to silicones business recovery
Added: 10 Nov 2023
Includes volume of exports from China 'as quite a lot of commodity products are made there...'

Kraiburg TPE advances new high recyclate-content TPEs
Added: 10 Nov 2023
Compounds with higher content of post-industry, post-consumer waste offer a range of adhesion optio…

ERJ: News stories of the week
Added: 10 Nov 2023
Most widely-read news reports posted on the European Rubber Journal website over the last seven days

EV polymers growth drives Imerys expansion in China
Added: 9 Nov 2023
Output from new, €43m mineral additives plant in Wuhu includes products for tire inner-liners

Cooper Standard upgrades forecast on Q3 return-to-profit
Added: 9 Nov 2023
Manufacturer revises up earnings guidance on strong Q4 automotive projections

New €600m tire factory planned for Cameroon
Added: 9 Nov 2023
Neptune Holding working with Finnish consulting firm Black Donuts on greenfield project

Apollo Tyres reports 58% profit growth for first half
Added: 9 Nov 2023
Group sees “encouraging signs”, particularly from India, for increasing demand

Hutchinson exec Klein to lead German rubber association
Added: 9 Nov 2023
New WDK president to focus on supporting Germany "as an industrial location"

Essentially Rubber: Smart fashion
Added: 9 Nov 2023
Leading-edge designs and applications showing how elastomer materials...

DuPont opens new elastomer production site in US
Added: 8 Nov 2023
Delaware facility to meet growing demand in semiconductor, industrial sectors

Conti improves Tires earnings despite lower sales
Added: 8 Nov 2023
Positive development primarily linked to ‘premium tires’, lower materials costs

Bridgestone, Michelin share rCB research results in joint white paper
Added: 8 Nov 2023
Companies offer “a set of definitions, proposed specifications, and guidelines for regulatory requi…

Agridence, Malaysia Rubber Board link up to advance sustainable NR
Added: 8 Nov 2023
Digital platform to offer “integrated end-to-end trade and traceability system” in Malaysia
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Solvay announces executive teams of spinoff companies
Added: 8 Nov 2023
Current CEO Ilham Kadri to lead Syensqo as Philippe Kehren takes over at ‘new Solvay’

Lower volumes, weak truck industry impact Goodyear third quarter results
Added: 7 Nov 2023
EMEA earnings below historical levels due to “continued industry volume weakness and elevated infla…

Toyo Tires launches research on sustainable raw materials in Serbia
Added: 7 Nov 2023
Partnership with Serbian Novi Sad university to study rice husk ash silica, recycled carbon black

Update: Synthetic rubber pricing data
Added: 7 Nov 2023
Weekly data compiled by ChemAnalyst based on selected commodity trading activity in Europe

Avon Protection rebrands Artis rubber research arm
Added: 7 Nov 2023
Unit currently working on recovered carbon black, silica; and devulcanised materials from waste rub…

India’s TVS Srichakra acquiring US industrial tire maker Super Grip
Added: 7 Nov 2023
Tennessee-based operations to help expand off-highway tire business in the US

‘Mixed picture’ for rubber futures amid reduced trading in China
Added: 6 Nov 2023
JPX: 'Long liquidations' in China linked to limited buying activity in NR markets