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Elkem improves silicones earnings position in first quarter

Added: 2 May 2025

Division reclassified as 'discontinuing operation' as strategic review of unit continues

Versalis posts elastomer-business declines in 2019

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...

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…

ExxonMobil eyes “significant” cost-cutting amid Covid-19 outbreak

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…

Michelin taps Thales technology to scale software business

Added: 30 Apr 2025

Allows French group to license and manage software products, protect intellectual property

Brussels  – Natural rubber has been included on the EU’s ‘critical raw material list’, the European Tyre & Rubber Manufacturers’ Association (ETRMA) has reported.

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 announces “high-return” expansions in silicones business

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 buying Arizona Chemical for $1.4bn

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

EU new car demand drops 2% in first quarter

Added: 30 Apr 2025

But BEV market share grows to more than 15% of overall market

ERJ Tire Tracker - to April 2025

Added: 30 Apr 2025

Regular update of industry announcements on new OE fitments, innovations, market developments

Pirelli “contains” Covid effects, further cuts sales outlook 

Pirelli ends Sinochem's 'control' to safeguard US market position

Added: 29 Apr 2025

Major Chinese shareholder expresses "deep disappointment and firm opposition" to the vote