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European chemicals industry at ‘breaking point’

Added: 17 Jan 2025

Cefic competitiveness report highlights need for urgent action from EU decision makers

People: Orion reshuffles executive team

Orion announces 'discrete' job cuts to improve rubber segment performance

Added: 16 Jan 2025

Houston-based supplier lowers earnings outlook on currency rates, restructuring and weak rubber vol…

South Korea’s Kolon Industries opens tire cord plant in Vietnam

Kolon Industries raising tire cord production by 60% in Vietnam

Added: 16 Jan 2025

Manufacturer adding a new plant using idle equipment from its Nanjing factory in China

TPC Group expands butadiene production by 20% at Texas plant

Added: 16 Jan 2025

Production facility in Houston can now produce 500ktpa of butadiene

Smiley Monroe announces expansion plans, launches new brand identity

Added: 16 Jan 2025

Norther Irish belting major signals ‘new locations’, growing business in sectors such as recycling,…

New management team takes over at Freudenberg Sealing Technologies

Added: 16 Jan 2025

Matthias Sckuhr named as CEO, succeeding Claus Moehlenkamp who will serve as deputy CEO at Freudenb…

Mesnac breaks ground on “most modernised” tire mould production plant

Added: 15 Jan 2025

Vietnam project “crucial" to Chinese group’s globalisation strategy, focused on building up oversea…

The plant is being built to meet growing demand in Asia as airlines convert their fleets to radial tires from bias ones, said Goodyear Thailand’s managing director Finbarr O'Connor.

Goodyear repurposing TBR factory for aircraft tire production

Added: 15 Jan 2025

Majority of plant’s commercial tire production to be moved to other Goodyear facilities

Zhongzhe Group breaks ground on 200ktpa rubber plant

Added: 15 Jan 2025

€400m project to produce SSBR and BR to meet local demand for new energy/green tires

Continental Tire cuts production at Ecuador plant amid low demand

Added: 15 Jan 2025

South American manufacturer reducing working days from seven to five per week

Canadian recycler Ecolomondo advances tire pyrolysis plant

Added: 15 Jan 2025

Expects delivery of new milling line to improve output, rCB particle size

ANRPC report: Improved fundamentals fail to lift rubber prices

Rubber futures mixed amid ‘steady’ market sentiment

Added: 14 Jan 2025

RSS3 futures decline while TSR20 make week-on-week gains, according to JPX

China’s Wanli breaks ground on 11m unit Cambodia tire project

Added: 14 Jan 2025

First phase of project to produce 6m units of passenger car tires with investment of $240m

New Nitto US factory to support automotive, aerospace industries

Added: 14 Jan 2025

Company to close manufacturing sites across US, impacting over 200 jobs

Rodolfo Comerio reports 15% growth in second quarter revenue

Italian polymer processing machinery industry reports 9% fall

Added: 14 Jan 2025

Sales in 2024 estimated to come in at over €4.3 billion in ‘temporary setback’

Tire makers expecting significant declines in Q2 results

Michelin adding passenger car tire capacity in China

Added: 13 Jan 2025

Shenyang local development commission gives greenlight to conversion project 

Lyon, France – Solvay has reported “promising results” from tests of its Premium SW silica product in truck, agricultural and winter tires.

Hankook, Solvay in link-up to develop 'circular silica'

Added: 13 Jan 2025

Waste-based filler expected to overcome limitations of rice husk silica, according to Korean partne…

Trelleborg acquires US sealing products distributor

Added: 13 Jan 2025

CRC Distribution is based in Alabama and primarily supplies to US domestic industry

Ikon Tyres rebrands Nordman tires

Added: 13 Jan 2025

Rebranding completes the acquisition of Nokian’s operations in Vsevolozhsk by Tatneft 

Sumitomo Rubber upgrades winter tire development centre to extend development period

Added: 13 Jan 2025

Cooling equipment installed at Japanese site extends use of R&D facilities from two months to four …