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China ousts EU as global chemicals market leader

Evonik reports "no meaningful turnaround" in second quarter

Added: 23 Aug 2023

Chairman: "Germany is in a recession, Europe as well, and the economy in China is not picking up as…

Covestro H1 earnings halved on intense competition

Covestro appoints Christian Baier as new CFO

Added: 23 Aug 2023

German polymers company names technology office Thorsten Dreier for ‘labour director’ role

Essentially Rubber: A brush with sustainability

Added: 23 Aug 2023

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

ANRPC raises natural rubber supply, demand forecasts

Added: 22 Aug 2023

Upgrade based on increased consumption and production data from member countries for July

Tokai first-half profits rise on carbon black growth

Added: 22 Aug 2023

Group's carbon black sales up 15% year-on-year while operating income more than doubled...

More car makers suspend production as supply chain disrupted

Conti revises up car production expectations for 2023

Added: 22 Aug 2023

Europe saw 16% growth in vehicle production in first half, helped by “stabilised supply-chains...”

Yokohama Rubber expands marine fender portfolio

Added: 22 Aug 2023

New 'solid' products in addition to pneumatic fenders, which YRC has supplied for many years...

Sumitomo Rubber in link-up to monitor vehicle status in real-time

Added: 22 Aug 2023

Working with Viaduct, a US developer of AI-based vehicle-failure prediction technology

Bekaert announces CEO succession

Added: 22 Aug 2023

Kerstens previously a Bekaert executives and CEO of speciality business

DowDuPont launches electric vehicle initiative

EV sales buoy growth in UK new-car market

Added: 22 Aug 2023

SMMT: One battery electric vehicles registered every 60 seconds, as deliveries surge 88%

Pirelli outlines “value generating” programmes

Pirelli investing €400m in Romania, North America upgrades

Added: 22 Aug 2023

Technological upgrades target 'high value' tire production capacity

Kopernik helping rubber farmers to cap lost yields 

Natural rubber futures show continued weakness

Added: 21 Aug 2023

Uptick in Japan, but 'renewed selling pressure" impacts NR futures pricing on Chinese exchanges

NOK downgrades forecasts on changed automotive, industrial trends

Added: 21 Aug 2023

Japan rubber-products major also notes slower-than-expected growth in key Asian markets

Bridgestone launches $550m expansion project at Warren site

Added: 21 Aug 2023

TBR facility will be one of Bridgestone’s first plants globally able to produce its Enliten ‘techno…

Indorama aims to lead European tire cord business with Czech acquisition

Indorama cutting jobs at German tire, automotive yarn plant

Added: 21 Aug 2023

Move follows cost pressure in production of ‘individual polyester-based yars’

Goodyear expands Dalian tire plant

Goodyear confirms employee fatality at US tire plant

Added: 21 Aug 2023

Investigations into fatal incident at Arkansas facility as well as tragic event on German test trac…

Report: Continental hires JP Morgan for possible structural overhaul

Conti records €80m expenses for Russian exit

Added: 21 Aug 2023

Announces €78m price tag for operations in Kaluga

Sri Lanka lifts costly ban on weed-killer

Brazil raises import tariffs on natural rubber

Added: 21 Aug 2023

Move to strengthen local producers, as prices for southeast Asian imports fall sharply

Tire tracker: Nokian introduces ‘Electric Fit’ symbol

Added: 21 Aug 2023

Latest news on fitments, testing and related innovations...

Austrian metrology group Anton Paar acquires Brabender

Added: 18 Aug 2023

German equipment maker purchased mainly for its know-how in the field of measuring instruments