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Wanli Tire, China Auto Parts establish joint ‘innovation laboratory’
Added: 7 Oct 2025
Wanli Tire is the only tire industry participant in the collaboration

Arlanxeo to close French synthetic rubber production site
Added: 6 Oct 2025
Aramco-owned supplier cites decline in demand, competitiveness of European chemicals industry...
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Sibur expands rubber catalyst capacity
Added: 6 Oct 2025
Expansion enables Russian group to support own tire rubber production

Waste tire recycler Pyrum reports higher sales, narrows loss
Added: 6 Oct 2025
German ELT pyrolysis company addressing 'conveyor technology' issues, delays 'extensive investment …

Kraton joins Michelin project to produce bio-ingredient 5-HMF
Added: 6 Oct 2025
Cerisea project in Peage-en-Roussillon, France, set to start operations in 2029

Mutares acquires former Conti hydraulic drum brake operations in Italy
Added: 6 Oct 2025
To be integrated into automotive & mobility segment as part of new entity Zendra Systems
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Rubber & tire industry in numbers
Added: 3 Oct 2025
Review of the key figures and data to emerge over the last seven days from leading players worldwide

Shibaura acquiring majority share in LWB Steinl
Added: 3 Oct 2025
Altdorf site to serve as regional HQ, production hub under newly formed Shibaura Machine LWB

Synthetic rubber makers hold firm in 2025 capacity rankings
Added: 3 Oct 2025
Slight increase enables Sinopec to remain the world’s largest producer

Kraiburg launches advanced fluoroelastomers range
Added: 3 Oct 2025
New FKM compounds series said to combine high performance with optimised efficiency

Bekaert in talks on future of Sardinia tire cord plant
Added: 2 Oct 2025
Company exploring third-party options amid structural changes in European tire industry

Prinx Chengshan expects Malaysian tire plant start-up by end of 2026
Added: 2 Oct 2025
Equipment procurement for factory in Kedah Rubber City set for completion this year

Siemens, rFpro launch new tire-road simulation technology
Added: 2 Oct 2025
New interface links Siemens’ Simcenter Tire software with rFpro’s “millimetre-accurate” road surfac…

Wevo, Laufenberg develop continuous process for ‘flat’ elastomer hydrogen gaskets
Added: 2 Oct 2025
New roll-to-roll coating method replaces traditional moulding for fuel cell, electrolyser seals

Michelin workers called to join French unions strike
Added: 2 Oct 2025
“Inter-professional mobilisation” set for 2 Oct against austerity plans

Italian government clears Chinese shareholder over Pirelli governance probe
Added: 1 Oct 2025
Investigation found no breach of CNRC’s ‘organisational-functional’ limits in Pirelli governance
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Zhongce Rubber reports progress at Indonesian tire plant
Added: 1 Oct 2025
Plant currently has capacity to produce 3.3 million tires; phases 2 & 3 due for completion in 2026
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India set to impose duties on acrylonitrile butadiene rubber imports
Added: 1 Oct 2025
Trade authority recommends antidumping duties of up to $606/tonne on imports from China, EU, Korea …

Goodyear consolidates motorsport operations under single structure
Added: 1 Oct 2025
“Global racing organisation” to enhance the US tire maker’s motorsport strategy worldwide
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