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Toyo targets automotive unit efficiency with restructuring move
Added: 8 Oct 2024
Creates new department to be led by Tomihiro Saki, currently president of Toyo Automotive Parts (US…

Solvay in talks to cease production of fluorinated acids at French site
Added: 8 Oct 2024
Salindres unit continues to deliver ‘negative financial performance’ due to unfavourable market con…

Lanxess exits polymer business with €460m sale of urethanes unit to Ube
Added: 7 Oct 2024
Move part of German group’s portfolio transformation, focus on speciality chemicals

Camfin raises stake in Pirelli as Brembo sells entire holding in tire maker
Added: 7 Oct 2024
Marco Tronchetti Provera’s investment vehicle now has 25.28% shareholding in Italian tire maker
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VMI opens new engineering, service centre in India
Added: 7 Oct 2024
Facility in Gujarat to serve the ‘extremely important’ Indian market, according to VMI chief Voortm…

Sibur expands production of styrenic elastomers
Added: 7 Oct 2024
Manufacturing plant in Nizhnekamsk modernised to increase capacity for SBS polymers

EU to delay deforestation law amid global concerns
Added: 4 Oct 2024
Brussels responds to doubts expressed by ‘global partners’ including during recent UN general assem…

Michelin marks 50 years of production at French tire plant
Added: 4 Oct 2024
Charts ‘industrial renaissance’ at Roanne site now focused on automated production of high-end tire…

Uber hopes to give Enso a lift with EV tire deal
Added: 4 Oct 2024
London-based start-up will offer electric vehicle tires at a discount to Uber drivers in UK and US

Seals maker Hultec aligns companies under single flag
Added: 4 Oct 2024
Move follows acquisition by Industrial Growth Partners and purchase of RieberLok

Vietnam olefins cracker meets all performance requirements
Added: 4 Oct 2024
Technip Energies has passed final performance acceptance test for facility in Long Son Island

ECHA committee agrees to revise PFAS emissions calculations
Added: 3 Oct 2024
New approach distinguishes between PFAS particle emissions and those that leach from materials

Evonik to expand silica production by 50% at US plant
Added: 3 Oct 2024
Investment driven by strong market demand for silica, particularly in manufacture of green tires
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Hübner claims ‘world first’ with automated uncoupling rubber gangways
Added: 3 Oct 2024
New technology allows uncoupling of transition systems “at the push of a button”

Bridgestone appoints new China general manager
Added: 3 Oct 2024
Taking over at the beginning of 2025, Zhao Laihong to continue focus on 'high-end' tire market

Pirelli appoints Livio Magni as European SVP
Added: 3 Oct 2024
Magni also serving as chief executive of Pirelli UK since July 2023

Guizhou Tyre advances passenger car tire project in Vietnam
Added: 2 Oct 2024
Chinese group completes local and overseas registration process for the expansion programme

Yokohama TWS names Elio Bartoli as new leader
Added: 2 Oct 2024
Bartoli succeeds Paolo Pompei who is stepping down, joining Nokian Tyres as CEO in 2025

Nitta relocates, expands Korean hose factory
Added: 2 Oct 2024
New facility in Gumi to support new mobility trends, semiconductor industry

Cabot mulls new plant for carbon nanotubes, battery materials
Added: 2 Oct 2024
US supplier aims to invest $180m in commercial-scale facility in Wayne County, Michigan