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Tatneft selling Russian tire operations
Added: 19 May 2022
Russian group to continue supplying raw materials to tire industry

Pirelli shareholders name Bruno as future CEO
Added: 19 May 2022
Stakeholders Camfin, ChemChina and CNRC extend long-term partnership

Covestro adds capacity for elastomer prepolymers
Added: 19 May 2022
New production line launched at Barcelona manufacturing site

Apollo margins hit by ‘unprecedented rise in costs'
Added: 19 May 2022
Indian tire maker reports 20% higher sales, helped by European operations

Conti named tire manufacturer of year at Tire Tech Awards
Added: 19 May 2022
SRI, Bridgestone, Mesnac, Arlanxeo among other winners

Guizhou Tyre unveils €270m 'engineering tire' expansion
Added: 18 May 2022
Project to see ‘intelligent manufacturing’ of an additional 380k tires per year

Semperit earnings drop 70% as Covid medical demand wanes
Added: 18 May 2022
Austrian polymer group posts significant growth in industrial segment

BASF doubles antioxidants production capacity in Singapore
Added: 18 May 2022
Phenolic antioxidants recommended for polyurethanes, elastomers

EU new car demand falls 21% in April
Added: 18 May 2022
Registration drops 14% over the first four months of the year

Hankook profits down amid global uncertainty
Added: 18 May 2022
Sales up 11%, driven by higher demand for large tires

German rubber & plastics machinery industry lowers forecast
Added: 16 May 2022
Order intake for the first quarter of the year ‘falls significantly’

ExxonMobil set to bring on new olefinic elastomer capacity
Added: 16 May 2022
Part of a $2bn expansion at the petrochemical major's Baytown, Texas site

Birla raising carbon black prices by 15%
Added: 16 May 2022
Supplier cites increasing costs as key reason for hike in North America

Yokohama profits down as costs overshadow higher sales
Added: 16 May 2022
Tire price increases in North America drive up revenue

Biesterfeld to discontinue operations in Russia
Added: 16 May 2022
German distributor to monitor the business closely for a possible future return to the market

Triangle Tire scraps $580m US factory project
Added: 16 May 2022
Chinese tire maker announced plans to build North Carolina facility in 2017

Helixtap in trade link-up for Indonesian natural rubber
Added: 16 May 2022
Partners with ICDX to offer contracts with real-time, independent data pricing

Bridgestone to develop tires for H-powered vehicle maker
Added: 16 May 2022
Hopium is a French-based pioneer in the manufacture of hydrogen-powered vehicles

Update: World Rubber Summit 2022
Added: 15 May 2022
Event 24-26 May in Singapore under the theme of a ‘resilient, digitalised and sustainable rubber ec…

Asahi Kasei to offer carbon footprint data for synthetic rubbers, elastomers
Added: 13 May 2022
“Cradle-to-gate” assessment covers emissions from upstream, transportaiton, in-house manufacturing …