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Essentially Rubber: Animal-free drive

Added: 3 Apr 2024

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

Rubber futures pricing reverses in China, Singapore

Added: 2 Apr 2024

JPX reports sharp decrease in ‘open interest’ last week on Chinese trading exchanges

Technology: Longer battery life with Hutchinson’s insulating system 

Hutchinson develops fire-resistant EPDM rubber for EV batteries

Added: 2 Apr 2024

Halogen-free sealing material tailored to address battery-pack safety issues in electric vehicles

REP ‘combines forces’ of two subsidiaries in Italy

Added: 2 Apr 2024

Strategic move comes two years after French rubber machinery group’s integration of RPM

Zeon invests in US battery-materials developer

Added: 2 Apr 2024

Coreshell's nanotechnology said to address battery ‘degradation’ issues, enhance electric vehicle p…

Kemya, Continental Carbon start Saudi carbon black plant

UK chemical firms report pick-up in orders, sales

Added: 2 Apr 2024

Chemical Business Association poll finds markedly improved view of market prospects

Momentive acquires KCC silicones business

Korean group KCC to ‘fully acquire’ Momentive Performance Materials

Added: 2 Apr 2024

KCC purchased Momentive in a $3bn deal in 2019 as part of a Korean consortium

Bridgestone develops new lunar rover concept tire

Added: 1 Apr 2024

To be unveiled during ‘space symposium’ in Colorado, new concept employs 'air free' technology

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Eastman discussing efficiency in tire production at IEC 2019

Conti's energy-consumption now '22% below tire industry average'

Added: 28 Mar 2024

Figure based on benchmarking against energy-usage across the world’s leading tire manufacturers...

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Update: Tariff-hit Chinese tire makers to “intensify” EU trade

EU court annuls sanctions against Belarus tire maker Belshina

Added: 28 Mar 2024

Sanctions imposed on tire maker in 2021 on grounds of ‘generating substantial income’ for Lukashenk…

ECHA details ‘next steps’ in proposed PFAS-restrictions process

Added: 28 Mar 2024

Committees to study fibre & fabric products, food-contact materials & packaging and petroleum & min…

Doublestar sales down; raises funds for smart plants

Doublestar to increase control over Kumho under restructuring plan

Added: 28 Mar 2024

Chinese group acquiring shares of investment fund created to buy 45% control over Kumho Tire

Asahi Kasei raising prices for styrene-based elastomers

Added: 28 Mar 2024

Japanese supplier cites high maintenance and manufacturing costs for price increases

Nokian to increase production in US, Russia ahead of market rebound

Nokian Tyres’ boss Jukka Moisio set to retire

Added: 28 Mar 2024

Finnish tire maker says it has initiated process to find a successor

Comerio Ercole recognised for ‘workplace health’ programme

Added: 28 Mar 2024

Italian rubber machinery maker shows best-practice in terms of well-being, lifestyle and combating …

Sentury Tire taps Colour Service/Pelmar at Chinese plant

Sentury advances second phase of Moroccan tire plant

Added: 27 Mar 2024

The $190m project obtains relevant overseas approval from local authorities in Qingdao

Italian polymer machinery outlook ‘complicated’, despite record 2023 sales

Added: 27 Mar 2024

Plastics & rubber machinery sales grow 3% to reach €4.8bn in 2023, according to trade body Amaplast…

Pirelli “contains” Covid effects, further cuts sales outlook 

Pirelli signs new €600m credit line to advance sustainability targets

Added: 27 Mar 2024

New line of credit from ‘a select pool of international banks’ to mature in October 2028

Continental opens expansion at US headquarters

Added: 27 Mar 2024

“Significant investment” in Fort Mill, South Carolina to build new three-story facility 

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Rubber futures prices dip amid pick-up in trading activity

Added: 26 Mar 2024

Osaka and Singapore trading exchanges register significant week-on-week declines in NR pricing

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