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Toyo targets double-digit profit growth in mid-term plan
Added: 10 Mar 2021
Strategy focuses on advanced position in North American market by 2025

Fenner Precision adds rubber compound testing unit
Added: 10 Mar 2021
Project part of investment programme following the UK-based company’s acquisition by Michelin

Top Glove reports four-digit rise in profits as demand soars
Added: 9 Mar 2021
Malaysian rubber gloves maker reports record quarter with 2,400% increase in profits

Kraton raises global prices for HSBC products again
Added: 9 Mar 2021
Move follows an earlier round of price-hikes introduced in January this year

Conti rubber business reports double-digit declines, expects recovery in ‘21
Added: 9 Mar 2021
German group expects global light vehicle production to increase by up to 12% this year

Nynas appoints Askvik as president, CEO
Added: 9 Mar 2021
Askvik led Swedish processing oil manufacturer through major reorganisation in 2020

EU plastics sector facing ‘serious’ raw material shortages
Added: 9 Mar 2021
EuPC: “If the situation continues like this, more and more companies will have to reduce production…

China’s Xingda expands tire cord capacity
Added: 9 Mar 2021
Company’s total annual tire cord capacity on track to exceed 1 million tonnes

Pirelli F1 supply contract extended to 2024
Added: 8 Mar 2021
Italian tire maker to carry out development tests on 18-inch tires for roll-out in 2022 season

Goodyear names Patterson to lead Cooper integration
Added: 8 Mar 2021
Former Asia Pacific president is a “market-back leader with broad, global perspective”

MRB: Natural rubber prices set to hold recent gains
Added: 8 Mar 2021
Malaysia Rubber Board links increases to tighter supply, Covid vaccination progress, optimism on US…

Yokohama enhances ice-surface testing capabilities
Added: 7 Mar 2021
Adds “massive” new cooling unit at Japanese tire test centre

Forbo taps Saint-Gobain exec for top role
Added: 7 Mar 2021
Michael Schumacher to join Swiss group as CEO and chairman of the board

Trelleborg acquires Dutch composite hose supplier
Added: 5 Mar 2021
Gutteling supplies hoses for applications in the chemicals industry and for LNG transfer

Conti hose & line unit zeros in on low-emission mobility
Added: 5 Mar 2021
Products extend range of electric and hybrid vehicles and meet increasingly stringent emission stan…

Cabot expands sustainable rubber operations in Malaysia
Added: 5 Mar 2021
Expansion of recently started ‘engineered elastomer composites’ (E2C) unit in Port Dickson

Lanxess links executive pay to sustainability targets
Added: 5 Mar 2021
Board of management compensation tied to environmental and health & safety goals

Top Glove eyes new expansions with HK listing
Added: 4 Mar 2021
Hong Kong shares offering “to increase our production capacity, upgrade our facilities, and invest …

Trelleborg divests UK offshore oil & gas unit
Added: 4 Mar 2021
Buyers are “individuals holding senior positions” in the business being sold

Forbo targeting growth-markets, innovation after Covid-hit year
Added: 4 Mar 2021
Scaled-back and optimised operating structures improved productivity at Swiss group during the pand…