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Natural rubber futures end 2024 on a flat note
Added: 2 Jan 2025
Pricing gains on Osaka, INE, SICOM exchanges amid sharp decline in trading volumes

ETRMA sets out position on EU ‘digital product passport’
Added: 2 Jan 2025
Scheme will track sustainability performance, recyclability, and environmental impact throughout ti…

KraussMaffei expects to gain from Sinochem equity move
Added: 2 Jan 2025
German machinery maker says €478m transaction will improve its capital structure and increase inves…

Toyo launches group restructure, rejigs executive team
Added: 2 Jan 2025
Improved coordination among departments to enhance automotive parts business capabilities…

WDK wants next German government to reverse ‘deindustrialisation’
Added: 24 Dec 2024
Rubber industry leader sets out range of actions needed for "Germany to make a comeback..."

Prinx Chengshan recalling 500k snow tires
Added: 24 Dec 2024
Tires “fail to comply” with requirements of federal safety standards and do not provide sufficient …

Schwalbe progresses 'fair rubber' agroforestry project
Added: 23 Dec 2024
Bicycle tire maker notes benefits of scheme for growing rubber trees with other crops in Indonesia
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Tesla recalling 700k vehicles over TPMS failure
Added: 23 Dec 2024
NHTSA: Tire pressure monitoring system failing to warn drivers of safety-risk situations…
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DATL taps Rockwell technology to enhance maintenance operations
Added: 23 Dec 2024
Dunlop Aircraft Tyres transitions from reactive to predictive maintenance using software supplied b…

ERJ Trends 2024: Tire industry investment moving in new directions
Added: 23 Dec 2024
Investment in new capacity and plant upgrades reaches new levels, but low-cost imports continue to …

ERJ Trends 2024: Cambodia the top destination’ for Chinese tire makers
Added: 23 Dec 2024
Investment activity intensified as new Chinese investors entered the market, drawn by Cambodia's fa…

Linglong rebuffs “old news” allegations around Serbian project
Added: 20 Dec 2024
Facts have been “twisted and crafted to make fake news and damage our reputation…”
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Evonik combining silica, silanes business lines in group rejig
Added: 20 Dec 2024
Merged unit called ‘Smart effects’ to be created soon, according to German-based chemicals major
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Rubber & tire industry in numbers
Added: 20 Dec 2024
Review of the key figures and data to emerge this week from leading players in the global industries

ERJ Trends 2024: End-of-life tire pyrolysis
Added: 20 Dec 2024
Solid progress reported by backers of recycling technology seen as key to tire industry's net-zero …

Princeton engineers tap TPEs for ‘stretchable, flexible, recyclable’ 3D printing materials
Added: 20 Dec 2024
Researchers develop block copolymer which forms stiff cylindrical structures inside a stretchy poly…

Sumitomo Riko opens rubber bearings factory in Japan
Added: 20 Dec 2024
Project part of a broader renovation project at company’s facilities in Komaki, Japan

Michelin North America mulling $160m expansion project
Added: 19 Dec 2024
Enters negotiations with local authorities in Lexington, South Carolina for investment in the regio…

ZC Rubber starts commercial production at Indonesia tire plant
Added: 19 Dec 2024
Products include TBR and two-wheeler tires, bias tires, inner tubes, tracks and carbon black

Conti set to initiate sale of ContiTech automotive parts unit in first quarter of 2025
Added: 19 Dec 2024
Supplier of rubber products to automotive OEMs currently being presented to potential buyers, partn…