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Kuraray raising elastomer prices in North America
Added: 6 May 2025
Price hikes related to US import tariff policies and related cost increases

Engel opens in production plant in Mexico to strengthen Americas presence
Added: 6 May 2025
Americas gain strategic importance as Engel's "largest addressable market for injection moulding ma…

Reka Rubber improves profitability as volumes increase
Added: 5 May 2025
Outlook for volume growth “uncertain”, as the tariffs and their impact on customer demand not yet c…

Elkem improves silicones earnings position in first quarter
Added: 2 May 2025
Division reclassified as 'discontinuing operation' as strategic review of unit continues

Eni pushing ahead with cracker closures at loss-making Versalis
Added: 2 May 2025
Transformation plan over the next five years could deliver €1bn improvement in annual earnings...
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EU begins moves to introduce restrictions on use of 6PPD in tires
Added: 2 May 2025
ETRMA: Austrian and Dutch authorities expected to submit restriction proposals within the next 18 m…

Rubber & tire industry in numbers
Added: 2 May 2025
Review of the key figures and data to emerge over the last seven days from leading players worldwide

Trelleborg seals advance for high-speed EV motors
Added: 2 May 2025
Fluoroelastomer component designed to perform at shaft speeds of over 20,000rpm

Contec opens rubber laboratory facility in Poland
Added: 2 May 2025
GumLab to help Polish tire recycler advance rubber compounding and material testing

Europe drives Nexen’s “record high” quarterly sales
Added: 1 May 2025
South Korean tire maker reports improved earnings on additional volume from Czech plant

Toyoda Gosei restructuring China operation, focusing on electrification
Added: 1 May 2025
Group reports decline in annual sales, earnings due to lower automotive production

Wacker reports 33% growth in silicones earnings
Added: 1 May 2025
Speciality products mainly drive higher sales at the German chemicals supplier

Pirelli to sell Nordic tire retail arm to CTS
Added: 1 May 2025
Enters long-term partnership with CTS to increase supply of Pirelli tires in northern Europe

German rubber industry calls for ‘immediate economic policy shift’
Added: 1 May 2025
WDK holds 'rubber industry day' in Berlin, where it urges government to support SMEs

ZC Rubber investing €215m to double capacity at 5G tire factory
Added: 30 Apr 2025
‘Future Factory’ in Hangzhou, China, was inaugurated in late 2023 and has capacity to produce 10m P…

Tariffs 'could hit profitability' of US petchems, rubber producers'
Added: 30 Apr 2025
Hyde: Trade wars threaten to undermine current 'golden era' for US petrochemicals industry…
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Michelin taps Thales technology to scale software business
Added: 30 Apr 2025
Allows French group to license and manage software products, protect intellectual property
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Sumitomo Riko offers new insights into behaviour of natural rubber
Added: 30 Apr 2025
Joint study explores the effects of metabolites and other components on the material properties of …

Dow extends European asset review to further reduce spending
Added: 30 Apr 2025
US chemicals major studying three more upstream sites in addition to previously announced PU assets…

Kraton raises synthetic elastomer prices in response to tariffs
Added: 30 Apr 2025
Undisclosed price hike to apply to North American market, effecitve 1 May