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Tire RFID standard now expected by end of 2019
Added: 19 Oct 2018
Clermont-Ferrand, France – After some recent delays, a universal ISO standard for RFID tire tags is…
New SI Group emerges as SK completes acquisition
Added: 19 Oct 2018
New York – SK Capital Partners has completed its acquisition of global additives and intermediates …
Electrification shaking up rubber auto-parts sector
Added: 18 Oct 2018
Slowly but surely a picture is emerging of the challenges facing suppliers of rubber-based componen…
Kumho ups EPDM prices on higher feedstock costs
Added: 18 Oct 2018
Akron, Ohio – South Korean EPDM maker Kumho Polychem Co. recently announced a price increase of 7 c…
Evonik starts up US tire-silicas plant
Added: 18 Oct 2018
Essen, Germany - Evonik Industries has started up a precipitated silica plant for the tire industry…
EU automotive industry issues Brexit “cliff-edge” warning
Added: 18 Oct 2018
Brussels – European automotive manufacturers and suppliers have jointly issued a stark warning abou…
Domestic decline stymies German rubber industry
Added: 18 Oct 2018
Frankfurt, Germany – The German tire & rubber goods manufacturing industry experienced a 0.7% dip i…
Bridgestone adds to tire-price rises in North America
Added: 17 Oct 2018
Nashville, Tennessee – Bridgestone Americas is raising national account, national fleet and nationa…
PolyOne launches TPE production in India
Added: 17 Oct 2018
Pune, India – PolyOne has officially opened a new thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) production line at …
Kraiburg TPE boss mulls “unpredictable” market
Added: 17 Oct 2018
Friedrichshafen, Germany – Despite having had a good year in 2018, Kraiburg TPE GmbH & Co. KG sees …
Conti starts production of ‘high-tech’ summer tire
Added: 16 Oct 2018
The EcoContact 6 tires use the company’s ‘GreenChili’ compound: said to deliver 20% higher mileage …
ETRMA cautions against ‘rescaling’ of EU tire labels
Added: 16 Oct 2018
Brussels – Five years of mandatory tire-labelling have done little to increase demand for safer and…
New MgO production line to start up in Russia
Added: 16 Oct 2018
The product will be manufactured at a recently opened third processing plant in Vyazma in the Smole…
IRSG photo competition to highlight role of women
Added: 16 Oct 2018
Themed ‘women for rubber’, the initiative is intended to highlight the importance of women in any p…
Brexit: Chemicals sector calls for UK to be kept within REACH
Added: 16 Oct 2018
The open letter from Cefic, CHEM Trust, the European Environment Bureau (EEB) and the UK Chemical I…
Private equity firm KKR to acquire Minnesota Rubber & Plastics
Added: 15 Oct 2018
Minneapolis, Minnesota — Norwest Equity Partners has agreed to sell Quadion LLC, which trades as Mi…
Yokohama advances sustainable NR procurement policy
Added: 15 Oct 2018
Tokyo – Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd has "formulated" a procurement policy to ensure natural rubber (NR)…
Dow upgrading UK silicones site under global investment plan
Added: 15 Oct 2018
Barry, UK – Dow Chemical Co. is upgrading its silicones production site in Barry, Wales, as part o…
Dow develops new fluorosilicone rubber bases for “competing demands”
Added: 12 Oct 2018
Midland, Michigan - Dow Performance Silicones has unveiled two new fluorosilicone rubber (FSR) base…
New chloroprene rubber project in China signs contract
Added: 12 Oct 2018
Baotou, China – China’s Jinjiao High-Tech (Shanghai) signed contract with the local government of B…
