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Goodyear EMEA boss Christopher Delaney departs
Added: 8 Apr 2025
Chief financial officer Christina Zamarro to lead unit on an interim basis
EU new car registrations fall but BEV market picks up
Added: 8 Apr 2025
BEVs market share rises to 15.2%, up from 11.5% reported in first two months of 2024
Continental to exit agricultural tire business by yearend
Added: 7 Apr 2025
German-based group to focus on materials-handling, earthmoving and port operations tires
Zeon, Visolis prepare to build bio-isoprene plant
Added: 7 Apr 2025
Two companies completed feasibility study launched early last year
AnVa taps Enviro rCB for ‘climate-neutral’ rubber compound
Added: 7 Apr 2025
Recovered carbon black sourced from Enviro’s tire pyrolysis facility in Asensbruk, Sweden
UK environment agency to review waste tire exports to India
Added: 7 Apr 2025
Decision follows campaigners pressure over waste tire sent to ‘polluting pyrolysis plants’
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CSRC to close one China carbon black plant, divests another
Added: 4 Apr 2025
Parent group of Continental Carbon to ‘gradually expand’ production in North America and Europe
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Tire and rubber share prices tumble
Added: 4 Apr 2025
Values hit by the US imposition of tariffs on imports from around the world
Rubber & tire industry in numbers
Added: 4 Apr 2025
Review of the key figures and data to emerge over the last seven days from leading players worldwide
Exports cushion Italian plastics & rubber machinery makers
Added: 4 Apr 2025
Amaplast forecasts three-point contraction in turnover for the sector in 2024
India initiates anti-dumping probe into ESBR imports
Added: 4 Apr 2025
Investigation covers butadiene rubber of 1500 series from European Union, Japan, Korea RP, Russia a…
Ube completes €460m purchase of Lanxess urethanes unit
Added: 4 Apr 2025
Move part of German group’s portfolio transformation to focus more on speciality chemicals
Yokohama Rubber announces organisational change in North America
Added: 4 Apr 2025
Jeff Barna promoted to YCNA president & CEO as Shinichi Takimoto returns to Japan with new responsi…
Trelleborg acquires Swedish sealing profiles specialist
Added: 3 Apr 2025
Portfolio includes extruded rubber profiles and gaskets for “niche” construction, industrial and au…
General Science becomes ‘state-controlled’ following share transfer deal
Added: 3 Apr 2025
Hongdou Group transfer 24.5% of General Science shares to Soho Holding, owned by Jiangsu local auth…
Asian tire-producing countries hit by Trump tariffs
Added: 3 Apr 2025
China, Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia on the list of 60 countries hit by additional import duties
Bekaert expects “subdued” first half for rubber reinforcement unit
Added: 3 Apr 2025
But is “potentially well positioned to mitigate impact of international trade tariffs on supply-cha…
Investment firm upgrades Michelin rating despite volumes dip
Added: 3 Apr 2025
HSBC Global Research encouraged by outlook for French group on pricing, mix, cost-control, tariffs-…
RTAE: Natural rubber markets ‘unstirred by political noise’
Added: 3 Apr 2025
During February, TSR 20 prices “for most of the month remained dormant in a 5 €cents/kg range…”
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Update: Bridgestone announces job cuts at two Spanish tire factories
Added: 2 Apr 2025
Move in response to “profound changes” in European tire market and need to adapt production
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