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German antivibration specialist GMT sells aerospace division

Added: 19 Feb 2025

Michigan-based TriMas Corp. acquires division with intention to expand presence in Europe, aerospac…

PCBL to build acetylene black plant in India

Added: 19 Feb 2025

Indian carbon materials supplier signs technology transfer agreement with Ningxia Jinhua

Tire Tech Expo Preview - Industry leaders to show the way forward

Added: 19 Feb 2025

ACE Laboratories to release new 6PPD findings... Conti presenters to major on sustainability... Tec…

Bridgestone reports marginal growth amid emerging ‘new threats’

Added: 18 Feb 2025

Volumes decline as structural changes accelerate in automotive and tire industries

ANRPC report: Improved fundamentals fail to lift rubber prices

Strong speculative buying drives rubber futures

Added: 18 Feb 2025

Commodity funds purchase about 700 kilotonnes of rubber futures across Chinese markets

Virdis acquires J. Allcock’s rubber chemicals unit

Added: 18 Feb 2025

Purchase of historic company's curatives & additives business to “spearhead drive in rubber chemica…

Toyo posts lower earnings on higher sales

Toyo Tire selling majority stake in Chinese manufacturing subsidiary

Added: 18 Feb 2025

Agrees to transfer 86% of equity interest in Toyo Tire Zhangjiagang to Chinese investment company L…

Industry group shares 15 years of tire particle research for free

ACE to present new 6PPD research findings at Hanover expo

Added: 18 Feb 2025

Sponsored: ACE Laboratories will discuss results from its latest research into migration of 6PPD an…

Fukoku Rubber lowers forecast on Chinese AVS closure

Added: 18 Feb 2025

Closure of antivibration parts subsidiary in response to “sluggish Chinese construction machinery m…

Conti to major on sustainability at Tire Tech Expo 2025

Added: 18 Feb 2025

German-based tire maker to deliver four sustainability-themed presentations at conference in Hanove…

Denka reassures local communities amid US ‘Covid town’ claims

Denka reshuffles executive team

Added: 17 Feb 2025

Names Ikuo Ishida as president and chief executive officer

ZC Rubber targets major efficiency improvements with 5G ‘smart factory’

ZC Rubber gains approval for Shanghai Stock Exchange listing

Added: 17 Feb 2025

China's largest tire maker aims to raise €630m to invest in five major domestic and international p…

Toyo exceeds 2024 forecast on record-high sales, favourable currency

Added: 17 Feb 2025

Japanese tire & rubber group pursuing ‘flexible, agile’ operations in high-growth markets

Trelleborg acquiring US pipe repair business

Added: 17 Feb 2025

California-based NuFlow, specialises in liners, resins and equipment for small pipe repairs

Kemya, Continental Carbon start Saudi carbon black plant

Zeon, Yokohama Rubber in tie-up to advance sustainable rubber production

Added: 17 Feb 2025

Japanese partners installing “a bench facility” for production of butadiene from plant-derived etha…

Report: Indonesia to build €88m rubber oil refinery

Tosoh increases sales of chloroprene rubber

Added: 17 Feb 2025

Shipments of chloroprene rubber rose as demand recovered, although performance varied by region

Goodyear closing Venezuelan tire factory

Goodyear returns to profit despite lower sales, volumes

Added: 14 Feb 2025

US tire maker reports strong recovery in EMEA as margins improved from 0.3% to 2.0%

Tokai reports carbon black gains, forecasts lower earnings in 2025

Added: 14 Feb 2025

Pass-through of costs and favourable exchange rates help boost full-year sales, earnings

Rubber & tire industry in numbers

Added: 14 Feb 2025

Review of the key figures and data to emerge over the last seven days from leading players worldwide

Denka raises neoprene prices again

Denka says demand remains ‘weak’ for chloroprene rubber

Added: 14 Feb 2025

Elastomer and infrastructure division in red amid sluggish demand, flat volumes