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Technip Energies to build Wastefront’s UK tire recycling plant
Added: 11 Jan 2022
Construction work on £100m facility to start second quarter of 2022

Supermax rolls out new foreign worker management policy
Added: 11 Jan 2022
Move follows a US imports ban on glove maker's products in October 2021

Phillips Carbon Black changes name, starts new QA facility
Added: 11 Jan 2022
Trading now as PCBL, carbon black maker opens quality assurance lab in Palej, India

Semperit appoints former Tata Steel executive as new CEO
Added: 10 Jan 2022
Karl Haider succeeds Martin Füllenbach, who resigned from the Austrian group last September

New India waste-tire regs could drive up EU recycling costs
Added: 10 Jan 2022
Draft extended producer responsibility document suggests much tighter restrictions on imports

Shin-Etsu Chemical develops new materials for wearable devices
Added: 10 Jan 2022
Health patches using technology still working after a week of 'continuous wearing'

Natural rubber producers revise up demand estimate
Added: 7 Jan 2022
Suppliers upbeat about market prospects but output affected by bad weather, pandemic

Trelleborg Wheel Systems increasing prices across all market segments
Added: 7 Jan 2022
Swedish manufacturer introducing price rises of up to 10% from January

Asahi Kasei to manufacture airbag fabric in Vietnam
Added: 7 Jan 2022
Japanese group says intends to expand business “in every segment of the airbag material supply chai…

MIT makes elastomer powered bug-bots fit-to-fly
Added: 7 Jan 2022
Low-voltage artificial muscles allow significant step-up in the performance of flying microrobots

Goodyear unveils demo tire with 70% sustainable materials
Added: 6 Jan 2022
Tire maker says ‘on track’ with goal of 100% sustainable tire by 2030

Thailand detects new natural rubber leaf fall disease
Added: 6 Jan 2022
Authorities ‘monitoring closely’ as disease expected to spread by rains and strong winds

Final call: Rubber Design Innovations 2021
Added: 6 Jan 2022
ERJ readers have helped decide the most innovative designs and applications for elastomer materials…

Momentive issues ambitious safety targets
Added: 6 Jan 2022
Aims to build on achievement in 2020, when company reported best ever safety performance

AirBoss revises down 2021 guidance amid delayed nitrile gloves delivery
Added: 6 Jan 2022
Canadian group expects to see “very strong” performance this year

US probe finds material injury from European ESBR imports
Added: 5 Jan 2022
Investigation looks into imports from Czechia, Italy and Russia

Trelleborg acquires 'niche market' coated fabrics business
Added: 5 Jan 2022
Purchase gives access to heat-resistant silicone coated fabrics

Monolith granted conditional approval for $1bn loan
Added: 5 Jan 2022
Funding to be invested in ongoing expansion project to become "largest carbon black production faci…

Bridgestone technology on ‘most advanced ever’ Mercedes-Benz
Added: 4 Jan 2022
Vision EQXX claimed to take electric range and efficiency to an entirely new level

Linglong rolls out first tires from fifth China plant
Added: 4 Jan 2022
Changchun project will eventually have a total capacity to make 14 million units per year