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Tire Tech Expo Preview - Industry leaders to show the way forward
Added: 19 Feb 2025
ACE Laboratories to release new 6PPD findings... Conti presenters to major on sustainability... Tec…

Bridgestone reports marginal growth amid emerging ‘new threats’
Added: 18 Feb 2025
Volumes decline as structural changes accelerate in automotive and tire industries

Strong speculative buying drives rubber futures
Added: 18 Feb 2025
Commodity funds purchase about 700 kilotonnes of rubber futures across Chinese markets

Virdis acquires J. Allcock’s rubber chemicals unit
Added: 18 Feb 2025
Purchase of historic company's curatives & additives business to “spearhead drive in rubber chemica…

Toyo Tire selling majority stake in Chinese manufacturing subsidiary
Added: 18 Feb 2025
Agrees to transfer 86% of equity interest in Toyo Tire Zhangjiagang to Chinese investment company L…

ACE to present new 6PPD research findings at Hanover expo
Added: 18 Feb 2025
Sponsored: ACE Laboratories will discuss results from its latest research into migration of 6PPD an…

Conti to major on sustainability at Tire Tech Expo 2025
Added: 18 Feb 2025
German-based tire maker to deliver four sustainability-themed presentations at conference in Hanove…

Fukoku Rubber lowers forecast on Chinese AVS closure
Added: 18 Feb 2025
Closure of antivibration parts subsidiary in response to “sluggish Chinese construction machinery m…

Denka reshuffles executive team
Added: 17 Feb 2025
Names Ikuo Ishida as president and chief executive officer

ZC Rubber gains approval for Shanghai Stock Exchange listing
Added: 17 Feb 2025
China's largest tire maker aims to raise €630m to invest in five major domestic and international p…

Toyo exceeds 2024 forecast on record-high sales, favourable currency
Added: 17 Feb 2025
Japanese tire & rubber group pursuing ‘flexible, agile’ operations in high-growth markets
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Trelleborg acquiring US pipe repair business
Added: 17 Feb 2025
California-based NuFlow, specialises in liners, resins and equipment for small pipe repairs

Zeon, Yokohama Rubber in tie-up to advance sustainable rubber production
Added: 17 Feb 2025
Japanese partners installing “a bench facility” for production of butadiene from plant-derived etha…

Tosoh increases sales of chloroprene rubber
Added: 17 Feb 2025
Shipments of chloroprene rubber rose as demand recovered, although performance varied by region

Goodyear returns to profit despite lower sales, volumes
Added: 14 Feb 2025
US tire maker reports strong recovery in EMEA as margins improved from 0.3% to 2.0%

Tokai reports carbon black gains, forecasts lower earnings in 2025
Added: 14 Feb 2025
Pass-through of costs and favourable exchange rates help boost full-year sales, earnings

Rubber & tire industry in numbers
Added: 14 Feb 2025
Review of the key figures and data to emerge over the last seven days from leading players worldwide

Denka says demand remains ‘weak’ for chloroprene rubber
Added: 14 Feb 2025
Elastomer and infrastructure division in red amid sluggish demand, flat volumes

Michelin reports lower sales, earnings as volumes decline
Added: 13 Feb 2025
French group says currency fluctuations, low utilisation rates also impacted 2024 results

Sumitomo Rubber results buoyed by currency gains
Added: 13 Feb 2025
Tire volumes declined during 2024 due to production halts by automotive OEMs as well as market stag…