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Trelleborg sharpens focus on fender safety, innovation
Added: 18 Jun 2025
Swedish group set to launch ‘smart fender’ following prototype trials at two ports in Middle East a…

Ineos Phenol to permanently close German site
Added: 18 Jun 2025
Radcliffe: “The consequence of Europe’s total lack of energy competitiveness and blind devotion to …

Sri Trang targets AI-driven transformation, workforce empowerment
Added: 18 Jun 2025
Strategy focused on equipping personnel with 'competencies and adaptive capabilities to thrive in r…

Teijin 'circular' aramid for Bridgestone solar car tires
Added: 18 Jun 2025
World Solar Challenge features a 3,000km journey across difficult terrain in the Australian outback

Enso making “solid progress” with ambitious plans
Added: 17 Jun 2025
Update from Dominic Clark, newly appointed as MD of London-based EV tire company

Rubber & tire machinery makers record solid growth performance
Added: 17 Jun 2025
ERJ annual survey records double-digit gains at equipment makers across main global markets

ETRMA responds to public consultation on EUDR
Added: 17 Jun 2025
Proposal to European Commission for amending annex I of the EU Deforestation Regulation

Black Donuts set to launch new R&D facility
Added: 17 Jun 2025
InTire Labs designed to support innovation in sustainable tire & rubber materials

Dow closures threat prompts German chemical workers protest
Added: 17 Jun 2025
IGBCE: "Not only hundreds of jobs are at stake, but the industrial future of an entire region…"
…Ineos starts pyrolysis oil-based polymer production in France
Added: 15 Jun 2025
Post-consumer feedstock used to produce “virgin-quality" polymers for applications, including tires…

RTAE tracks impact of US tariffs on rubber prices
Added: 15 Jun 2025
Outlook for rubber prices is ‘likely to remain depressed due to global instabilities…’
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Steinl Group consolidating LWB operations in Germany
Added: 15 Jun 2025
Group closing its LWB Automation facility in Weinheim as part of wider 'strategic realignment' proc…

India imposes anti-dumping duties on insoluble sulphur from China, Japan
Added: 15 Jun 2025
Duties range from $259 to $358 per tonne, with Chinese importers facing a flat duty of $307/tonne

VW to fit Vredestein tires as OE on Tiguan SUV
Added: 15 Jun 2025
Apollo Tyres will supply the tires for fitment at Wolfsburg vehicle production site

Tosoh investing €450m in chloroprene rubber capacity expansion
Added: 13 Jun 2025
To add a second CR production facility at its Nanyo complex in southern Japan

Vibracoustic expands air spring production in Mexico
Added: 13 Jun 2025
“Strategic investment” sees increased capacity for air spring sleeves, assembly at Lerma facility
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Rubber & tire industry in numbers
Added: 13 Jun 2025
Review of the key figures and data to emerge over the last seven days from leading players worldwide

Pirelli’s ‘cyber tires’ to map roads in Italian pilot project
Added: 13 Jun 2025
Apulia regional government and Pirelli launch project to ‘unify’ all data to map state of road netw…

Comerio Ercole opens Industry 5.0 manufacturing centre
Added: 13 Jun 2025
Italian machinery maker expands R&D centre with new calendering, mixing units

Datwyler streamlining US production network
Added: 12 Jun 2025
Swiss group to close Ohio facility, transfer operations to two existing sites