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Endurica targets elastomer-based ‘digital twin’ apps
Added: 15 Oct 2017
The simulation tool can model the development of damage in elastomeric parts operating under realis…
Tocom to list TSR rubber futures in 2018
Added: 15 Oct 2017
Tokyo – Tokyo Commodity Exchange Inc. (Tocom) is planning a listing for technically specified rubbe…
Bridgestone agrees to pay $29.6m to settle price-fixing suit
Added: 15 Oct 2017
Detroit – Bridgestone Corp. will pay $29.6 million (€25 million)) to settle a multi-district litiga…
A. Schulman might again be looking for a buyer
Added: 15 Oct 2017
The news is not a surprise to analysts who follow the publicly traded compounder and resin distribu…
Conti 'on schedule' with US tire plant construction
Added: 13 Oct 2017
Clinton, Mississippi – Site clearing for Continental AG's $1.4-billion commercial truck/bus tire pl…
LSR key for automotive headlamps
Added: 13 Oct 2017
Lippstadt, Germany—Liquid silicone rubber is again playing an important role in new headlamp design…
Marangoni rings the changes
Added: 13 Oct 2017
Rovereto, Italy – Marangoni has announced a new role for Gianluca Merlo, who besides managing the …
Mitsubishi repositions rubber machinery business
Added: 13 Oct 2017
Tokyo –The rubber and tire machinery business of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd (MHI) has been pos…
AkzoNobel to expand Chinese organic peroxides plant
Added: 13 Oct 2017
Operated by the group’s specialty chemicals business, the Chinese site produces dicumyl peroxide (D…
European tire markets weaken further
Added: 13 Oct 2017
Brussels – European replacement tire markets continued a downward trend started in the previous qua…
DuPont: Advanced plastics and elastomers for vehicle engine systems
Added: 13 Oct 2017
Geneva, Switzerland - DuPont has published a new white paper to explain how replacing metals with h…
Carbon black makers in expansion mode
Added: 12 Oct 2017
London - Following plant closures by carbon black makers in the past few years, recent announcemen…
NR supply-gap closes amid slump in prices
Added: 12 Oct 2017
Kuala Lumpur – The gap between global supply and demand for natural rubber (NR) has continued to na…
Growing MacLellan extends gaskets framework deal
Added: 12 Oct 2017
The original framework agreement, which started in 2014, will now run for a further year up to Sept…
Pyrolysis is 'the way forward’ for tire recycling
Added: 12 Oct 2017
London – Tire pyrolysis is the best recycling process despite its complicated nature and high inves…
Wickham awards for TAARC, Doshin and Top Glove leaders
Added: 12 Oct 2017
The ‘technology innovation’ award went to YBhg Dato’ Dr. Kamarudin Ab Malek, CEO of the Tun Abdul R…
IoM3 meeting to focus self-healing elastomers
Added: 12 Oct 2017
London – Self-healing elastomers is the topic of the next meeting being staged by the Rubber in Eng…
Michelin to double capacity at Chennai plant
Added: 12 Oct 2017
Chennai, India – Michelin has inaugurated a new production line at its Chennai plant that, it said…
Governments step up SR anti-dumping measures
Added: 12 Oct 2017
London – Measures against dumping of synthetic rubber gained momentum last month as a number of gov…
Feature: New capabilities drive demand for TPEs
Added: 11 Oct 2017
Maturity in some market segments, but the thermoplastic elastomers industry still has a fair amount…
