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Zochem parent completes Chapter 11 restructuring

Zochem to expand zinc oxide production

Added: 11 Apr 2022

Company to focus on sustainability in product offerings

Nokian restarts manufacturing at Russian plant

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 launches major restructuring programme

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 develops new high-performance elastomer

Denka to raise prices for chloroprene rubber

Added: 8 Apr 2022

Japanese supplier "facing difficulty of continuous and huge cost-increase in our production..."

Italian plastics & rubber machinery exports hit a “trough”

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

Carbon black shortfall rocks India's rubber industry

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

Record high for UK car exports

UK car market declines in critical ‘new numberplate’ month

Added: 7 Apr 2022

Weakest March since 1998 as supply chain shortages constrain deliveries

Synthomer lowers business outlook on SBR weakness

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…

Midland, Michigan –  DowDuPont Materials Science has started up world-scale ethylene and polyethylene (PE) production facilities in Freeport, Texas – with new olefinic rubber and elastomers units scheduled to follow.

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”

Terror threat to bolster Avon Rubber shares

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 rejects Italy minister’s ‘bad loan’ allegation

Pirelli expects ‘moderate pace of growth’ in 2022

Added: 4 Apr 2022

Russia-Ukraine war, Omicron and high costs to impact performance