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Norway's Wastefront teams up with US company for tire recovery projects

Green light for Wastefront’s tire pyrolysis plant

Added: 6 Sep 2023

UK project approval follows deal with VTTI to advance and scale-up ELT pyrolysis technology

Essentially rubber: Adidas gains traction with Conti rubber

Added: 6 Sep 2023

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

Fire impacts tire production at Goodyear plant in Poland

Added: 5 Sep 2023

Truck tire manufacturing continued without disruption; some consumer tire production resumed

Yokohama Rubber posts tire-sales recovery in Russia

Added: 5 Sep 2023

Sales back up to 3% of overall group total, Japanese group's first half results show

Heinz squeezes out silicone from ketchup bottle caps

Added: 5 Sep 2023

Mono-material design is said to eliminate the need for flexible silicone rubber valve...

Nokian to cut output, jobs at Nokia plant

Nokian Tyres names new finance chief

Added: 5 Sep 2023

Niko Haavisto brings finance, M&A experience in private equity, industrial companies

Answer: The probability was 12/81 or 14.8% as explained by: Bharat B Sharma, Sr VP Product Development & Technical Service (Elastomers), Reliance Industries Ltd, Vadodara, Gujarat, India; Michele Girardi, Scame  Mastaf Spa, Suisio, Italy; Andrew Knox, Rubbond International, Ohé en Laak, The Netherlands; John Droogan, advanced polymers and composites, MegaChem (UK) Ltd, Caldicot, Monmouthshire, UK; Hans-Bernd Lüchtefeld, market research & communication manager, PHP Fibers GmbH, Obernburg, Germany; Ramasubramanian P, manager, marketing – mixer and LTKMPL products, rubber processing machinery, Larsen & Toubro Ltd, Vedal Village,  Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu, India; Yuichi (Joe) Sano, Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd, Itami, Japan.

IoM3 event to study elastomers in the rail industry

Added: 5 Sep 2023

Elastomer group to hold afternoon technical discussion meeting 15 Sept at its London HQ

Rubber industry reaching a crossroads in India

India Rubber Board to produce directory of industry suppliers

Added: 5 Sep 2023

Publication will include details of machinery, rubber, chemicals, reclaimed materials producers...

Conti CityPlus tire delivers 10% energy-efficiency gain

Added: 5 Sep 2023

Based on EcoContact 6 series, concept tire offers ‘optimised behaviour’ during stop-and-go traffic …

“The second quarter of 2015 was once again a strong quarter for the Hexpol Group – our best quarter so far,” said Georg Brunstam, president and CEO.

Hexpol CEO and president Georg Brunstam passes away

Added: 4 Sep 2023

Joined compounding group in 2008, Brunstam is credited for turning group into 'world-leading player'

Goodyear adopting sustainable natural rubber procurement policy

Rubber futures markets reach eight-month high

Added: 4 Sep 2023

Gains made amid optimism about China economic recovery “later this year”

Toyoda Gosei shedding German seals manufacturer

Toyoda Gosei moves carbon-neutral target to 2030

Added: 4 Sep 2023

Group previously aimed to achieve carbon-neutrality in production activities by 2050

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GRI advances use of recovered carbon black in tires

Added: 4 Sep 2023

Sri Lankan group raises use of rCB in manufacture of material handling, agricultural tires

EU hopeful on US automotive-tariff threat

EU car markets see “solid growth” in July

Added: 4 Sep 2023

New car registrations rise 15.2% as ACEA reports 12th consecutive month of gains

Kemya, Continental Carbon start Saudi carbon black plant

Zeon raising synthetic latex prices

Added: 4 Sep 2023

Rising costs involved in manufacturing of products cited for upward revision

Safic-Alcan expands PU distribution deal with Dow

Added: 4 Sep 2023

French group now supplying Dow polyurethanes in central and eastern Europe

Industrial sector continues to be prime cyber target

Added: 4 Sep 2023

NCC: July saw the highest number of attacks within the sector for the year

Automation major Siemens joins Zeppelin 'sustainable tire alliance'

Added: 1 Sep 2023

Group to contribute digitalisation, analysis expertise to German machinery and systems maker's init…

Guanlian expanding rubber compounding capacity with south China plant

Added: 1 Sep 2023

Set to commission 70ktpa facility in Jiangmen City, operating 11 'import' mixers in initial phase..…

Semperit completes sale of medical gloves business

Added: 1 Sep 2023

Austrian rubber products manufacturer now highly focused on industrial product markets