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Toyoda Gosei launches automotive parts with high recycled rubber content

Added: 13 Jan 2026

Weatherstrips incorporating high percentage of recycled rubber adopted by Toyota RAV4

EU new car registrations grow in November

Added: 13 Jan 2026

Battery-electric car market share increases but there is still “room for growth”

Seals makers track progress of upcoming PFAS consultation

Added: 12 Jan 2026

Industry body notes new guidance for stakeholders participating in upcoming SEAC consultation

Pyrum in major waste tire recycling JV deal with Unitank

Added: 12 Jan 2026

UniPyrum aims to build five to ten ELT pyrolysis plants in Europe ‘in coming years’

Russian authority to investigate pricing complaint against Nizhnekamsk

Sibur extends maintenance cycle at Nizhnekamsk rubber, butadiene units

Added: 12 Jan 2026

Work allows selected rubber-related facilities to move to an extended interval between repairs

Kumho in link-up with Ansible Motion on digital tire development

Added: 12 Jan 2026

UK-based simulation specialist to help Kumho accelerate product development for electric, high-perf…

German chemicals industry sees EU climate package as ‘enormous challenge’

China says EU carbon border adjustment mechanism ‘unfair’

Added: 12 Jan 2026

Beijing says CBAM “disregarded the significant achievements China has made in green and low-carbon …

Rubber & tire industry in numbers

Added: 8 Jan 2026

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

Trelleborg restarting operations at Chinese facilities

Trelleborg expands silicone tooling expertise with Austrian acquisition

Added: 8 Jan 2026

Finalises deal to buy tooling, automation specialist Nexus Elastomer Molds

Metso to build rubber products plant in China

Added: 8 Jan 2026

New Quzhou facility to supply rubber and Poly-Met wear parts for mining and aggregates customers

Toyoda Gosei combines rubber units in major restructuring

Added: 8 Jan 2026

Process to strengthen collaboration between development, production engineering and automotive busi…

Leading the way: Comerio Ercole

Added: 8 Jan 2026

ERJ's new spotlight on companies shaping the future of the rubber & tire industry

Michelin 'uncertain' as tariffs, volumes weigh on 2025 results

Added: 8 Jan 2026

French group flags up increasing impact of dip in N American markets, trade barriers at investor ro…

UPM rolls out first commercial product at German biorefinery

Added: 8 Jan 2026

Leuna facility begins industrial sugar output as ramp-up continues

Shandong helps tire companies affected by US anti-dumping probe

Correction: China launches sunset review on EPDM imports from EU, US, South Korea

Added: 8 Jan 2026

Terminates dumping duties on imports of the rubber products from the UK

Cooper Standard closing Ohio automotive parts production plant

Added: 8 Jan 2026

Factory closure, planned for mid-2027, to impact 228 employees

KM trims auto interior process down to 40 seconds

Added: 8 Jan 2026

Robotic assembly operations include fitting rubber sealing clips to composite parts

Korean court cuts prison sentence for Hankook chairman

Added: 8 Jan 2026

Seoul-based tire maker “to take action in accordance with due process”

China’s Haian Group to lead €500m Russia OTR tire project

Added: 7 Jan 2026

Recently listed tire maker sees rising demand in Russia after international brands’ exit

China opens natural rubber R&D centre

Natural rubber futures remain rangebound in subdued trading

Added: 7 Jan 2026

Holiday period weighs on volumes as Chinese exchanges see long liquidation