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Zochem to expand zinc oxide production
Added: 11 Apr 2022
Company to focus on sustainability in product offerings

Nokian makes €106m dividend cut to help fund new European plant
Added: 8 Apr 2022
Tire maker no longer investing in Russian production but factory remains open

Updated: Goodyear enters partnership to advance dandelion rubber in US
Added: 8 Apr 2022
Programme supported by department of defence and Air Force research lab

Trelleborg halts construction of sealings plant in Russia
Added: 8 Apr 2022
Swedish group says has ‘no manufacturing site or sales’ in the country

Sailun says wet-mixing technology ‘game-changer’ for tire industry
Added: 8 Apr 2022
Company officially launches Ecopoint3 process to deliver ‘right rubber balance’

Denka to raise prices for chloroprene rubber
Added: 8 Apr 2022
Japanese supplier "facing difficulty of continuous and huge cost-increase in our production..."

Amaplast ‘alarmed’ by price hikes, raw materials shortage
Added: 7 Apr 2022
Three Italian associations call for “urgent action” to rethink Europe's industrial policies
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Update: India investigating four tire makers for alleged cartel activities
Added: 7 Apr 2022
Competition authority carried out raids at multiple sites across India

Freudenberg Sealing advances defect detection with new in-house technology
Added: 7 Apr 2022
Machine vision inspection system eliminates some process steps involved in quality control

UK car market declines in critical ‘new numberplate’ month
Added: 7 Apr 2022
Weakest March since 1998 as supply chain shortages constrain deliveries

Synthomer forms adhesives technologies division following Eastman deal closure
Added: 7 Apr 2022
Among other products, the unit produces Impera-branded hydrogenated resins for tire & rubber indust…

Dow announces global silicone capacity expansion
Added: 6 Apr 2022
Move in response to growing demand for mobility technologies

Conti claims breakthrough with large-scale production of rPET-based tires
Added: 6 Apr 2022
In-house technology industrialised “in just a few months”

Avon says Ukraine war highlighted ‘criticality of products’
Added: 6 Apr 2022
Company in active discussions for potential incremental orders

Toyoda Gosei to establish new airbag production plant in China
Added: 6 Apr 2022
Unit to supply to growing automotive industry in southern China

Kraton expanding pine-based tire additives capacity in France
Added: 5 Apr 2022
Company to make ‘significant investment’ to raise capacity for alpha methyl styrene

Sumitomo Rubber advances tire wear monitoring with internal power device
Added: 5 Apr 2022
Miniaturised energy harvesters can power peripheral sensors in tires

New boss takes over at Desma China
Added: 5 Apr 2022
Kevin Wang joined Desma from Engel subsidiary WinTec

Hexpol completes 70% acquisition of recycled polymer compounder
Added: 5 Apr 2022
Acquisition in line with strategy to grow in ‘high recycled-content’ polymers

Pirelli expects ‘moderate pace of growth’ in 2022
Added: 4 Apr 2022
Russia-Ukraine war, Omicron and high costs to impact performance