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Michelin to fit RFID tags in all tires by 2023

Cimcorp parent Murata, Michelin co-develop ‘new-gen’ RFID modules

Added: 14 Dec 2021

Embedded into tires, passive RFID tags can operate for “extremely high mileages”

Study indicates OE brand loyalty near 37%

Hankook inks deal to secure stable logistics services

Added: 14 Dec 2021

Tire maker in long-term partnership with "the world’s fifth-largest liner shipping company”

ContiTech unit set to open compounding plant in China

Updated: ContiTech divests US rubber track products unit

Added: 14 Dec 2021

Military components supplier Loc Performance acquires facility in St. Marys, Ohio

Elastomers for Sustainability IV

Added: 14 Dec 2021

Fourth staging of ERJ programme to identify the most important sustainability projects in our indus…

ANRPC: Outlook remains weak for short-term NR price recovery 

Strong dollar, new Covid variant to impact rubber short-term outlook 

Added: 13 Dec 2021

Factors to offset gains from seasonal supply shortage, high China demand

Hutchinson ramping up plant in China

Hutchinson rolls out “absolute” sensor technology

Added: 12 Dec 2021

Manufacturer advances speed-sensor technology for a wide range of applications 

Vietnam urged to join ITRC

Mixed picture as natural rubber markets respond to Omicron

Added: 10 Dec 2021

Osaka rubber futures see trend reversal following six-month peak in late November

Monolith to add ammonia unit at green carbon black plant

Goodyear targets sustainable materials with Monolith collaboration

Added: 10 Dec 2021

Monolith’s plasma-based methane pyrolysis process produces ‘green carbon black’ and hydrogen 

Bridgestone’s South Africa plant impacted by electricity cuts

Bridgestone to sell anti-vibration rubber business to Chinese manufacturer

Added: 9 Dec 2021

Global operation employing 3,800 people is latest non-tire business to exit Japanese group

Asahi seeing strong tire sector demand

Pirelli awards nine suppliers for sustainability, innovation and quality

Added: 9 Dec 2021

Synthetic rubber manufacturers Asahi Kasei and Synthos recognised by Italian tire maker

Covestro starts CO2-based polyols plant

Covestro develops sustainable elastomer for offshore cable protection

Added: 9 Dec 2021

New polyurethane elastomer system manufactured using CO2 feedstock

Pyrolyx advances US operation with facility test-run, acquisition

Bolder acquires former Pyrolyx tire recycling plant in US 

Added: 8 Dec 2021

Mothballed Terre Haute facility is scheduled to restart production in early 2023

US manufacturer breaks ground on $700m nitrile glove project

Added: 8 Dec 2021

Blue Star NBR and partners aim to manufacture 60 billion gloves per year at full capacity

Phillips Carbon Black to complete expansion project early next year

Phillips Carbon Black to build production facility in southern India

Added: 8 Dec 2021

Company signs MoU with the government of Tamil Nadu for setting up fifth plant

Bridgestone 'on schedule' with plant expansion in Hungary

Bridgestone to close China truck & bus tire plant

Added: 7 Dec 2021

Japanese group to continue operating another TBR facility in north eastern city of Shenyang

Schwalbe launches inner tube recycling programme in Switzerland

Added: 7 Dec 2021

Initiative started in 2015 and has been rolled out in four other countries

Among the state-of-the-art testing facilities at the Technodome is a driving simulator room, in which a large part of tire performance can be predicted before it is tested in real-life situations. Three sets of data are used to evaluate the tire: vehicle data, tire data and driver data.

Hankook invests in 3D spatial startup

Added: 7 Dec 2021

Korean group foresees strong growth in 3D mapping amid growth autonomous mobility trend

ExxonMobil to expand UK speciality elastomers capacity

Celanese completes €1bn acquisition of ExxonMobil elastomers business 

Added: 6 Dec 2021

Santoprene to extend range of materials portfolio in target areas: future mobility, medical, and su…

Trelleborg seals investment signals global ambitions

Trelleborg plans share repurchase programme, targets M&A drive

Added: 6 Dec 2021

Group eyes growth in areas such as healthcare, aerospace, semiconductors

Tire recycler Pyrum starts trading on Euronext Growth Oslo

BlackCycle partners claim 'world first' in recovered carbon black

Added: 6 Dec 2021

Allapur, Orion, Pyrum collaborate on manufacturing carbon black from pyrolysis oil