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Avon Rubber seeking new CEO as business grows

Avon Protection names new executive chair to head company

Added: 30 Sep 2022

UK rubber-based products group say arrangement in place until new chief executive appointed

Yokohama Rubber exiting karting tires business

Added: 30 Sep 2022

Move part of Japanese tire maker’s “Transformation 2023” strategy

Evonik in link-up for industrial scale supply of rice ash silica to tire industry

Added: 29 Sep 2022

New plant, to be built in collaboration with Austrian and Thai partners, set for 2024 commissioning

India’s Epsilon Carbon adding 100ktpa of carbon black capacity

Added: 29 Sep 2022

New €70m investment to increase total production by 85%

Update: Tariff-hit Chinese tire makers to “intensify” EU trade

New EU sanctions against Russia to impact tire & rubber sector?

Added: 29 Sep 2022

Eighth package of measures to include “sweeping new import bans” and crackdown on circumvention of …

SaarGummi expanding in Europe with Polish facilities move

Added: 29 Sep 2022

Signs contract with real estate group for lease of “tens of thousands of square metres of warehouse…

COG introduces new hydrogen seal materials

Added: 29 Sep 2022

EPDM and FKM compounds to meet demanding challenges around impermeability and in-use conditions

Frameless sealing ‘making inroads in premium automotive market’

Added: 29 Sep 2022

Cooper Standard says adoption being supported by trends around sustainability and electrification

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Enviro, Michelin agree terms for strategic partnership

Enviro advances plan for second tire recycling plant in Sweden

Added: 28 Sep 2022

Final investment decision still dependent on securing ELT supplies, logistics agreements

Rubber futures continue to gain

Added: 28 Sep 2022

Second week of closing higher as Chinese market picks up

Hankook debuts 30% sustainable material Formual E tires

Added: 28 Sep 2022

Korean tire maker takes over from Michelin to become exclusive tire supplier of the event

Flexsys on growth path despite ‘turbulent’ environment

Added: 28 Sep 2022

Tire additives supplier unlocks additional insoluble sulphur and antidegradant capacity

New plant breeder joins Conti’s dandelion rubber project

Added: 28 Sep 2022

‘Internationally active’ Kartoffelzucht Boehm is specialised in the breeding of cultivated plants

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‘Light at end of tunnel’ for synthetic rubber makers

Added: 27 Sep 2022

Easing in supply-side inflation, energy prices, fiscal measures to support “modest growth” in 2023,…

Arkema raising elastomer production capacity by 40%

Added: 27 Sep 2022

French materials supplier notes increasing demand for bio-based grades derived from renewable casto…

Leoni opens new innovation centre to address future mobility

Added: 27 Sep 2022

Integrated processes and automation in production to boost productivity

SBR, EPDM prices decline as synthetic rubber market steadies

Added: 27 Sep 2022

Other commodities post slight improvements in European trading over the past week

Huebner claims ‘world first’ with steering system for trams on rubber wheels

Added: 27 Sep 2022

New technology controls six axles of high-capacity buses in urban areas

India extends anti-dumping duties on rubber chemicals from EU, China

India to extend China tire duties for another three years

Added: 26 Sep 2022

Sunset review covers new tires larger than 16" for truck & bus applications

Japan sulphur products supplier Tsurumi expands with acquisition

Added: 26 Sep 2022

Tokyo-based manufacturer buying insoluble sulphur business of Nippon Kanryu Industry