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Styrene-butadiene rubber prices slide, EPDM recovers
Added: 4 Oct 2022
Other synthetic rubber commodities remain flat over one-week period

Conti claims top tire OE position in China
Added: 4 Oct 2022
Tire business reports significant growth in area of electric and premium vehicles

Goodyear reports fatality at US tire manufacturing plant
Added: 4 Oct 2022
Death of Topeka plant employee adds to number of fatal incidents at Goodyear US facilities over rec…

Evonik introduces new waste-tire elastomer for athletic shoes
Added: 4 Oct 2022
Vestamid eCo replaces 50% raw material with used tires and is produced with renewable energy

Kraton elastomer production hit by extended cracker shutdown
Added: 3 Oct 2022
LyondellBasell to delay restart of cracker at French petrochemicals site until early 2023

Rubber futures provide mixed picture ahead of China’s week-long holiday
Added: 3 Oct 2022
Commodity trades lower in Osaka but increases noted on Chinese SHFE and INE exchanges
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Klean establishes Australian subsidiary to advance tire recycling plants
Added: 3 Oct 2022
Canadian pyrolysis company eyeing “significant” projects in Melbourne and Sydney

Safic-Alcan extends distribution agreement for Nouryon additives
Added: 3 Oct 2022
Agreement covers marketing of crosslinking peroxides across EU

ExxonMobil expands healthcare products portfolio
Added: 3 Oct 2022
Extended range includes Vistamaxx performance polymers, speciality elastomers

Hutchinson opens aftersales site in France
Added: 3 Oct 2022
MRO centre in Blagnac to support aerospace industry as air traffic picks up

K2022 exhibitor profile – METRAVIB
Added: 3 Oct 2022
Manufacturer of dynamic mechanical analyzers to meet requirements of research and industry dealing …

Huebner opening “ultra-modern” elastomer compounding plant in Hungary
Added: 30 Sep 2022
Second Hungarian facility to offer products with improved fire protection properties

'Disruption continues to impact' Arlanxeo chloroprene rubber supply
Added: 30 Sep 2022
Synthetic rubber major issued force majeure after Dormagen feedstock outage in mid-August

Weir doubles rubber production at Malaysia plant
Added: 30 Sep 2022
Rubber products used in mining, minerals processing and industrial applications

Avon Protection names new executive chair to head company
Added: 30 Sep 2022
UK rubber-based products group say arrangement in place until new chief executive appointed

Yokohama Rubber exiting karting tires business
Added: 30 Sep 2022
Move part of Japanese tire maker’s “Transformation 2023” strategy

Evonik in link-up for industrial scale supply of rice ash silica to tire industry
Added: 29 Sep 2022
New plant, to be built in collaboration with Austrian and Thai partners, set for 2024 commissioning

India’s Epsilon Carbon adding 100ktpa of carbon black capacity
Added: 29 Sep 2022
New €70m investment to increase total production by 85%

New EU sanctions against Russia to impact tire & rubber sector?
Added: 29 Sep 2022
Eighth package of measures to include “sweeping new import bans” and crackdown on circumvention of …

SaarGummi expanding in Europe with Polish facilities move
Added: 29 Sep 2022
Signs contract with real estate group for lease of “tens of thousands of square metres of warehouse…