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Norway CO2 emissions decision to impact Elkem operations

Added: 9 Oct 2023

New budget proposes to raise deductible quota price floor for CO2 emissions

Ansell framework to provide reliable product-sustainability information

Added: 9 Oct 2023

Ansell Earth presents “science-based claims” across material, manufacturing, packaging, use, and en…

US environment agency rules for mandatory PFAS reporting

Added: 9 Oct 2023

Manufacturers required to report use of all fluorine-containing chemicalsand polymers...

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Arkema to expand organic peroxides capacity in China

Added: 6 Oct 2023

Launches €50m expansion project at Changshu site, partly to meet growing demand in solar energy app…

Smithers acquires ‘indoor testing’ business for tires and wheels

Added: 6 Oct 2023

Standards Testing Laboratories to maintain fabricated machine division, Texas operations

Datwyler cuts resource consumption, eyes CO2 neutrality

Datwyler announces leadership succession plan

Added: 6 Oct 2023

Volker Cwielong to succeed Dirk Lambrecht as CEO of Swiss rubber products group in April 2024

Update: Synthetic rubber pricing data

Added: 6 Oct 2023

Weekly data compiled by ChemAnalyst based on selected commodity trading activity in Europe

Sumitomo Rubber turning off domestic gas hose business

Added: 6 Oct 2023

Group currently manufactures rubber hoses and related products at plant in Kakogawa, Hyogo prefectu…

Kemya, Continental Carbon start Saudi carbon black plant

ERJ: News stories of the week

Added: 6 Oct 2023

Most widely read news reports posted on the European Rubber Journal website over the last seven days

SRI earnings up despite lower sales

Sumitomo Rubber investing €80m in South Africa tire factory

Added: 5 Oct 2023

Project at Ladysmith site to increase output, modernise production and support local jobs...

Giti breaks ground on ‘next-gen’ tire plant in China

Added: 5 Oct 2023

New plant in Changfeng to be “strategically situated” to cater to key OEM demands

European Chemical Agency sees “low level of concern” for recycled rubber

EC adopts controversial ban on rubber infill in synthetic pitches

Added: 5 Oct 2023

Applies after eight years “to give pitch owners and managers the time to switch to alternatives...”…

Moulding machinery major Desma broadens management team

Added: 5 Oct 2023

German-based rubber equipment maker appoints new MD for sales & service

Tosoh building crude MDI splitter plant in Vietnam

Added: 5 Oct 2023

Products to be used in various applications, including elastic textiles used in sportswear 

Tristone expects intensified Russian sanctions to impact hose production

Added: 4 Oct 2023

New restrictions on 'circumvention imports' of iron and steel products to impact supply-chain

Emerald Performance Materials sells additives businesses

Dow starts up Texas MDI distillation, prepolymers facility

Added: 4 Oct 2023

New capacity to support urethanes demand in automotive, construction, consumer, and industrial mark…

Fukoku expanding rubber parts production capacity in Thailand, India

Added: 4 Oct 2023

Projects part of Japanese group's plan to grow sales by 35% within three years

French Oil Mill Machinery appoints new CEO

Added: 4 Oct 2023

Tayte French Lutz succeeds her father as leader of US-based rubber & process equipment maker

Chemical makers find crumbs of comfort amid business 'deterioration'

Added: 4 Oct 2023

Cefic reports higher production forecasts in August but demand and energy-cost issues continue to w…

Huntsman starts carbon nanotube plant construction

Added: 4 Oct 2023

Among target applications, materials can be used to enhance wear-resistance in tires