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Zeon raising prices for thermoplastic elastomer product
Added: 16 Mar 2022
Price rise “necessary to ensure supply security, service standards”

DL Chemical completes €2bn acquisition of Kraton
Added: 16 Mar 2022
Merger to enhance Kraton’s global presence, manufacturing footprint in Asia

Continental expands circular tire link-up with Pyrum Innovations
Added: 15 Mar 2022
Group's tire waste disposal subsidiary to supply Pyrum with ELTs

Kraton, Sabic partner to supply ‘renewable’ styrenic elastomers in Europe
Added: 15 Mar 2022
Company produces HSBC elastomers with ‘up to 70%’ renewable content

Freudenberg ceasing operations in Russia, Belarus
Added: 15 Mar 2022
German group donates €3m to Ukraine aid efforts

Ukraine war-induced high energy prices to burden 62% of German companies
Added: 15 Mar 2022
German economic institute surveys 200 companies during first week of invasion

Huntsman completes elastomers expansion in US
Added: 15 Mar 2022
Company constructed a purpose-built TPU manufacturing facility for protective film technologies at …

Bridgestone suspending tire production in Russia
Added: 14 Mar 2022
Japanese groups also halts export of tires to the country

Yokohama Rubber to expand conveyor belt output
Added: 14 Mar 2022
Manufacturer to add capacity at Hiratsuka factory, Japan

Top Glove profits decline drastically as demand normalises
Added: 14 Mar 2022
But group expands sales to US by 220%

IISRP announces new president, relocates AGM from Russia
Added: 14 Mar 2022
Lisbon will now host the event in September

Synthomer names new president of industrial specialities
Added: 14 Mar 2022
Perroni Laloe was former the global business director within Synthomer’s Performance Elastomers Div…

Continental's rubber division sees earnings rise 35%
Added: 11 Mar 2022
German group projects growth for both Tires and ContiTech units in 2022

Brenntag enters Israeli market with YS Ashkenazi purchase
Added: 11 Mar 2022
Israeli supplier offers more than 500 speciality products, including rubber ingredients

Kraton raising styrenic copolymer prices
Added: 11 Mar 2022
Polymers manufactured in France subject to additional ‘energy surcharges’

Synthomer earnings jump 110% amid ‘exceptional demand’ for NBR latex
Added: 11 Mar 2022
Group to complete 60ktpa expansion in Malaysia in first quarter of 2022

Datwyler completes acquisition of China healthcare elastomer manufacturer
Added: 11 Mar 2022
Yanati Xinhui Packaging will offer access to Chinese healthcare market with two production sites

Shortages will impact supply chains ‘for years’
Added: 11 Mar 2022
Critical tipping point as global supply chains struggle to recover

EU tire & rubber sector adapts to Russia/Ukraine crisis
Added: 10 Mar 2022
ETRMA members focused on employee safety, supply-chain security, forward strategies

Semperit 2022 results to be ‘significantly below market expectations’
Added: 10 Mar 2022
Austrian group expects to see material bottlenecks, price increases, production restrictions