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Hexpol sales, profits plummet as Covid lowers demand
Added: 21 Jul 2020
Group achieves "significant cost savings" through reduction of the number of employees

Trelleborg launches €70m restructuring plan to prepare for 'new normal'
Added: 21 Jul 2020
Measures include job cuts in aerospace and automotive segments, facility closure in Brazil
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Bridgestone, ETB launch premium tire subscription scheme in UK
Added: 20 Jul 2020
Scheme initially available in five pilot stores prior to being further rolled out

Lanxess consolidates rubber activities in e-mobility restructuring
Added: 20 Jul 2020
Jens-Hendrik Fischer will be the new head of Rhein Chemie business unit

Falken sees positive changes in European tire market
Added: 20 Jul 2020
Tire maker says it has done “much better than others” in view of Covid slowdown

Orion commissions new air emissions controls at US facility
Added: 20 Jul 2020
Carbon black maker says production site in Orange, Texas, now compliant with environmental standard…

Datwyler cuts resource consumption, eyes CO2 neutrality
Added: 20 Jul 2020
Reductions represent an overall 3% cut in energy and water consumption as well as waste volume

Germany could allow Level 4 automated driving
Added: 19 Jul 2020
Legislation could commercialise driverless vehicle technology by next summer

Trelleborg appoints new chief financial officer
Added: 19 Jul 2020
Ulf Berghult will leave the Swedish group after completing the 2020 year-end report

UK's Dellner Polymer Solutions appoints new CEO
Added: 19 Jul 2020
Mikael Petersson to lead supplier of rubber-fabrication and bonding solutions for a range of global…

TyreSafe welcomes UK initiative to ban old tires
Added: 19 Jul 2020
Move acknowledges wide-spread concern over safety of 'part-worns'

UK bans truck/bus tires aged 10 years and over
Added: 17 Jul 2020
Date of manufacture must be clearly visible to ensure that older tires are easy to spot

Cariflex names new boss, announces $50m investment
Added: 17 Jul 2020
New large-scale polyisoprene latex plant to double production capacity in Brazil

Rubber Price Monitor: Prices improve
Added: 17 Jul 2020
Latex prices on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange were the only exception, registering a 3% decline o…

Michelin picks 2020 Challenge Design ‘Upcycle' winners
Added: 17 Jul 2020
Theme challenged artists and designers to create a design that added environmental, societal or eco…

US places 'detention order' on Top Glove products
Added: 17 Jul 2020
Malaysian gloves maker says move linked to issues ‘related to foreign labour'

Production starts at new Evonik multi-purpose silicone facility
Added: 17 Jul 2020
Plant produces silicones and silane-terminated polymers for applications in construction and electr…

EU new-car sales fall 22% in June
Added: 16 Jul 2020
All EU markets continued to post significant declines with the exception of France

Hankook to up self-sealing tire capacity in China
Added: 16 Jul 2020
Seoul-based company to increase capacity for extended-mobility tires by nearly a million units a ye…

Apollo inaugurates two-wheel tire production plant
Added: 16 Jul 2020
Indian tire maker eyes top position in the premium two-wheel segment