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Sailun signals new investments at Vietnam tire plant
Added: 19 Jun 2023
Tay Ninh facility to "upgrade technology and equipment to build a smarter, more advanced and eco-fr…

Rubber futures mixed in ‘tight and directionless trading’
Added: 19 Jun 2023
NR prices remain rangebound across all major Far East markets

Desma expands offerings with addition of German brush machines specialist
Added: 19 Jun 2023
German machinery supplier now has complete department for handling, automation cell and brush const…

Parker wins contract to overhaul US Army Blackhawks
Added: 19 Jun 2023
To provide service support for UH-60 Blackhawk hydraulic pumps, flight control actuation

VDMA cautious over 2024 outlook as new orders dip
Added: 16 Jun 2023
But plastics & rubber machinery segment buoyed by strong 2022 and expects 'good' sales this year...…

Fatal incident at Denka chloroprene rubber plant
Added: 16 Jun 2023
One person killed and two others injured by pipe-burst at Japanese manufacturing site
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Audi taps pyrolysis for recycling of scrap tires in Hungary
Added: 16 Jun 2023
Vehicle manufacturing plant in partnership deal with local ELT processing company New Energy
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Zeon increasing prices for synthetic rubber materials
Added: 16 Jun 2023
Japanese group links measures to rising costs for facility maintenance, secondary raw materials, ut…

Cefic names Sylvie Lemoine as deputy director general
Added: 16 Jun 2023
Lemoine made significant contributions to shaping strategic initiatives

Airbus approves Goodyear tires on new A321XLR
Added: 16 Jun 2023
Goodyear’s ‘Flight Radial’ tire to be fitted on aircraft as it enters service in 2024
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Conti claims production "first" for sustainable-content tires
Added: 15 Jun 2023
UltraContact NXT is made of up to 65% renewable, recycled and ISCC Plus certified materials

Standard Profil buoyed by automotive market, cost trends
Added: 15 Jun 2023
'Headwinds easing amid diminishing supply-chain issues and falling material prices...'

Shell ‘reviewing’ Singapore chemicals assets
Added: 15 Jun 2023
Among other products, energy giant produces 155ktpa of butadiene at Bukom chemical park

Schwalbe expands usage of ‘fair rubber’ in tires
Added: 15 Jun 2023
Project directly supports rubber tappers with a premium of €0.50 per kilo

Biesterfeld to distribute Chem-Trend rubber release agents in Germany
Added: 15 Jun 2023
Providing improved release and rubber material flow, the products are used in tire manufacture and …

Shin-Etsu resumes silicone product manufacturing after fire incident
Added: 15 Jun 2023
Fire broke out at silicones production plant in Isobe, Gunma in late April

Marangoni Meccanica appoints new chief executive
Added: 14 Jun 2023
Francesco Motta brings experience from strategic roles in the machinery, mechanical systems, automa…

Swedish Tire Recycling advances major ELT project
Added: 14 Jun 2023
Gärstad facility able to process “half of the 90,000 tons of end-of-life tires that are collected a…

US processor Prism commercialises TPEs from ELTs
Added: 14 Jun 2023
Elastomer compound contains 50% post-consumer recycled contents from end-of-life tires

Hainan Rubber progresses smart tapping with fourth-gen robots
Added: 14 Jun 2023
Chinese natural rubber major notes ‘dual pressure’ of labour costs and shortage in plantations
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