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Automation experts join J2A judging panel

Bridgestone taps AWS to progress digital mobility solutions

Added: 2 Sep 2022

Collaboration aims to create "a Bridgestone marketplace" for fleet operators

Freudenberg serves up new food-contact fluoroelastomer

Added: 2 Sep 2022

Offers “outstanding resistance” to various aggressive media that can degrade EPDM and HNBR rubber m…

Return of ‘real’ trade fairs delivers for Desma

Added: 2 Sep 2022

Moulding machinery makers aims to build on success of DKT2022 in Nuremberg

Lion Elastomers seeking new leader after CEO resigns

Lion Elastomers expansion project to support EPDM customers 

Added: 1 Sep 2022

Project expected to reach full commercial production before yearend

Omnova sells rubber facility in India

Wanhua gains regulatory approval for €2.5bn chemicals plant

Added: 1 Sep 2022

Facility to produce “high-end polyolefin products”, including 400ktpa of elastomers

QEW acquires Dutch rubber compounder

IRSG foresees 2.4% annual growth in rubber demand to 2030

Added: 1 Sep 2022

‘Deceleration’ in tire sector impacting overall rubber consumption in 2022

Conti advances alternative to chloroprene rubber in drive belts

Added: 1 Sep 2022

German manufacturer says new synthetic rubber compound enables 50% lower CO2 emissions

Linglong opens subsidiaries in Luxembourg and Mexico

Linglong rolls off first tires at Serbian factory

Added: 31 Aug 2022

Company progresses China plants, plans to add further off-road capacity

Mitsui Chemicals to build new elastomer plant in Singapore

Added: 31 Aug 2022

Jurong Island facility to produce 120ktpa of “high performance elastomers” by 2024

Ansell announces decision to exit Russia

Added: 31 Aug 2022

Protection equipment supplier opened factory in Tula in 2021 

ANRPC: Rubber prices “flat” in November

Rubber futures under pressure amid weak global economy

Added: 31 Aug 2022

Prospect of further interest rate hikes, weaker Chinese economy weigh on market

Semperit earnings remain weak despite higher income

Semperit names new finance chief

Added: 31 Aug 2022

Petra Preining steps down prematurely to pursue ‘new professional challenge’

Hankook investing €1.6bn in US tire plant expansion

Added: 30 Aug 2022

Two projects at Tennessee facility to ‘more than double’ local manufacturing capacity

Synthetic rubber prices ease back from recent highs

Added: 30 Aug 2022

EPDM, nitrile and butadiene prices decline while SBR markets appear steadier

Kraton operations deemed "essential"

Kraton adding HSBC capacity in Taiwan

Added: 30 Aug 2022

Expansion project to increase facility's production of styrenic block copolymers by 30%

Bridgestone to commercialise guayule rubber by 2030

Added: 30 Aug 2022

Tire maker investing €40m to expand plantation area in southwestern US

Datwyler appoints new CEO, nominates new chairman

Datwyler expects ‘challenging second half’ as Ukraine war impacts growth

Added: 30 Aug 2022

First half earnings down despite higher revenue from continuing operations

Troester GmbH & Co. KG will present a 90mm compact extruder for hose manufacture with an automatically centering double-crosshead, which enhances material efficiencies, better product tolerances and quicker set-up times.

Troester and X-Compound at K2022

Added: 29 Aug 2022

Latest advances in processing machinery and support services for the rubber industry

Arlanxeo expanding  chloroprene rubber capacity

Synthetic rubber majors impose supply restrictions on key materials

Added: 26 Aug 2022

Unplanned incidents lead to force majeure measures on SEBS, EPDM and chloroprene elastomers

Bridgestone profits decline, sales remain flat

Bridgestone unveils €550m plan to expand TBR production in US

Added: 26 Aug 2022

Investment will also enable all tires made in Warren, Tennessee to be equipped with RFID sensors