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Michelin looks to gradually resume industrial activity 

New Michelin job contract targets ‘professional development’

Added: 23 Nov 2023

Contract with French staff to facilitate access to training for all; prioritise 'sensitive position…

Akwel on track with 10% revenue growth target

Added: 23 Nov 2023

Sales decline slightly in three months to end of September, primarily due to currency effects

Sentury Tire taps Colour Service/Pelmar at Chinese plant

Sentury recalls 9k ‘improperly cured’ tires

Added: 23 Nov 2023

Certain chemicals ‘missing’ during compound mixing of tires, manufactured in Thailand

Essentially Rubber: Hubner taps silicones to protect fingers

Added: 23 Nov 2023

Leading-edge designs and applications showing how elastomer materials...

Avon reports higher sales, profits in first half

Avon Protection 'star rising' despite falling sales, earnings

Added: 22 Nov 2023

UK manufacturing group says strategy working amid declines in business performance for fiscal 2023

Synthomer completes Omnova acquisition

Synthomer reorganises SBR operations ahead of paper & carpet exit in Europe

Added: 22 Nov 2023

Group steps up investment in speciality end markets, principally in Asia, US

Malaysian glove-maker delays plant start-up

Rubber gloves maker Hartalega to focus on ‘better cost management’

Added: 22 Nov 2023

Group reports loss for first half of fiscal year amid lower volumes, prices

EU new-car sales fall 22% in June

EU new car registrations up 15% in October

Added: 22 Nov 2023

Market records 15th consecutive month of growth with double-digit gains in key regions

Orion opens second carbon black plant in China

Added: 21 Nov 2023

Facility in Anhui to 'enable reallocation of production in US and Europe...'

Datwyler ‘scaling business model’ to deliver medium-term growth

Added: 21 Nov 2023

Swiss group impacted by “very rapid and almost complete loss of the Covid business”, higher costs i…

Remondis, Pyrum mull joint tire recycling plant in Germany

Added: 21 Nov 2023

BASF to purchase pyrolysis oil from proposed 20ktpa facility in Bremen

Kuraray's isoprene unit sees 41% decline in profits

Kuraray's isoprene unit hit by 'defect' at new Thai plant, low demand

Added: 21 Nov 2023

Japanese group notes “intensifying competition” for elastomers business

Update: Synthetic rubber pricing data

Added: 21 Nov 2023

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

Opinion: Goodyear must be open about Danville

EMEA costs-spike a trigger for Goodyear restructuring

Added: 20 Nov 2023

Closures of tire plants in Fulda and Furstenwalde will leave a major dent in US group's operations …

ETRMA, IRSG sustainability meeting in Brussels

Year-end demand, rainy season support rubber futures

Added: 20 Nov 2023

Main Far East markets make ‘modest gains’ last week amid lower trading activity

Toyo posts 60% earnings hike on higher sales, lower costs

Added: 20 Nov 2023

Tire maker's revenues buoyed by North America sales, as volumes grow 8% in region

BASF in financial loan deal with tire recycler Pyrum

Added: 20 Nov 2023

Loan facility to support construction of planned German ELT pyrolysis plant, other facilities

Hutchinson rolls out new digitalisation plan

Hutchinson opening second Asian polymer technical centre

Added: 20 Nov 2023

Chinese unit to develop rubber, TPE materials for applications including sealing, automotive...

German chemical makers halt production slide at Q3 stage

Added: 20 Nov 2023

VCI: Down-trend 'appears to have reached the bottom of the curve' but cost and market pressures per…

Goodyear 'to close down two German tire factories'

Added: 17 Nov 2023

US group to fully close its tire plants in Fulda by 2025 and Fürstenwalde by 2027