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Outside track: Driving up energy-efficiency
Added: 4 Sep 2024
Q&A with Fausto Belotti, global segment manager, rubber and plastic, ABB Motion

Industry majors link up for 'closed loop' tire initiative
Added: 3 Sep 2024
Partner with Portuguese tire pyrolysis company BB&G to use end-of-life tires in production of new t…

China’s Transfer Chemicals starts production at 120ktpa ‘rare-earth’ rubber plant
Added: 3 Sep 2024
New capacity to make Jiaxing City facility “the largest single-site butadiene rubber factory in the…

Wacker Silicones reports 73% earnings growth in second quarter
Added: 3 Sep 2024
Earnings improvement mainly due to positive volume and product mix effects

General Science rolls out first tire at Cambodian expansion project
Added: 3 Sep 2024
“Cost-effective Chinese tires have become increasingly favoured by European and American consumers,…

Rubber futures prices maintain momentum amid supply concerns
Added: 2 Sep 2024
Major markets report five-week high as demand outpaced production in first seven months of this yea…

Roxanna Petrovic elected leader of the IISRP
Added: 2 Sep 2024
Replaces Juan Ramon Salinas as head of the International Institute of Synthetic Rubber Producers

Shandong Jinyu project to expand capacity at TBR plant
Added: 2 Sep 2024
Chinese tire manufacturer investing €32m in “green intelligent manufacturing upgrade...”
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Gates switches to ethylene elastomers for upgraded V-belts
Added: 2 Sep 2024
Starts production of olefinic elastomer-based V-belts in Europe to ‘shorten lead times and increase…

Qemetica in €280m deal to acquire PPG silicas business
Added: 30 Aug 2024
Polish group is a major supplier of silicate raw materials for silica production and of soda ash fr…

Natural rubber production grows in first half despite output declines in Asia
Added: 30 Aug 2024
But ANRPC revises down production outlook marginally due to adjustments by The Philippines and Viet…

Fraunhofer seeks industrial partners for hydrogen elastomer project
Added: 30 Aug 2024
Elastolox targets alternatives to fluoropolymers in applications requiring resistance to alkaline-o…

Sailun more than doubles half year earnings beating earlier estimate
Added: 30 Aug 2024
Chinese tire group increases revenue and volumes by 30% in the first six months of the year
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Bekaert names Seppo Parvi as new finance chief
Added: 30 Aug 2024
Taoufiq Boussaid will step down from his role at end of October to pursue new opportunities

UK government advised to increase duties on Chinese truck tire imports
Added: 29 Aug 2024
Trade Remedies Authority recommends raising duties “to protect the UK’s tire retreading industry...…

Mitsubishi Chemical to commercialise tire-driven carbon black production by 2026
Added: 29 Aug 2024
Launches studies on chemical recycling of end-of-life tires utilising coke ovens

Chinese tire maker Aulice to build €90m plant in Tanzania
Added: 29 Aug 2024
Baha Tyre to have capacity to produce 1.2 million radial truck tires per year

Mexico urged to review claims of labour rights violation by Pirelli
Added: 29 Aug 2024
The US suspends “liquidation of tariffs” on goods from Pirelli Neumaticos in Guanajuato, Mexico
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Pirelli gains over 500 homologations for its electric vehicle tires
Added: 29 Aug 2024
Italian maker says Elect technology provides up to 50km of additional mileage compared to conventio…

AirBoss second quarter earnings grow amid US economic slowdown
Added: 29 Aug 2024
Six-month results remain weak as Canadian group executes ‘long-term growth strategy’