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Japan’s Kuraray increases elastomer prices

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

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