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Austrian rail company fits 3D-printed elastomer parts
Added: 11 Sep 2023
National rail company OBB equipping railcars with additive manufactured bellows, grommets
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PFAS: Time running out to submit feedback
Added: 11 Sep 2023
25 Sept deadline for input on proposals that could lead to a ban on fluoroelastomers and other poly…

Rogers appoints new chief technology officer
Added: 11 Sep 2023
Griffin Gappert joins from Henkel where he was head of innovations for adhesives, automotive OEMs

Four Bridgestone tire factories in Japan obtain ISCC Plus certification
Added: 11 Sep 2023
Total of 12 factories, including plants in Ohio, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Rome also certified…

Hankook resumes tire production at fire-hit plant
Added: 8 Sep 2023
Daejeon ‘factory 1' returns to manufacturing six months after fire

Top 10 Chinese tire makers recorded 6% decline in 2022 sales
Added: 8 Sep 2023
CRIA figures reflect the effect of Covid, market development on Chinese producers

Trelleborg sealing Middle East’s “largest immersed tunnel”
Added: 8 Sep 2023
Currently under construction in Iraq, the Khor Al Zubair Immersed Tunnel stretches 2.5km

Playmobil taps Kraton polymers for eco-friendly toys
Added: 8 Sep 2023
Kraton SBC enhanced enables "durability, crack resistance and extended product life" for new produc…

ACEA calls for EU strategy to compete with 'dragons’
Added: 8 Sep 2023
“Europe lacks a robust and coherent approach to the increasingly tough competition from abroad...”
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Chemicals makers cheer UK boomerang back to Horizon
Added: 8 Sep 2023
Return to "world’s largest research collaboration programme” which UK dropped out from in the wake …

ERJ: News stories of the week
Added: 8 Sep 2023
Most widely-read news reports posted on the European Rubber Journal website over the last seven days

Univar expands silicone additives distribution deal with Dow
Added: 8 Sep 2023
Firm to market Dow silicone additives, resins in paint and coatings in Germany

Goodyear to cut 1,200 jobs under EMEA region restructure
Added: 7 Sep 2023
Tire maker reducing salaried workforce by 15% under plan to streamline business in region

Reka Industrial expanding rubber operations after cables exit
Added: 7 Sep 2023
Finnish group's investments include increased production of 'black hoses' at site in Poland
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Pirelli tracks savings from ‘competitiveness programme’
Added: 7 Sep 2023
Tire maker achieves 30% annual savings target, with higher contributions expected in second half
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Continental Tire plant in Portugal receives ISCC Plus certification
Added: 7 Sep 2023
“We want to extend the internationally recognised certification to other of our tire plants as well…

Rubber sector leads UK innovation in 'packaging waste & recycling'
Added: 7 Sep 2023
Report: With over 30 filed technologies, 'rubber composition is the leading area of polymer innovat…

ZC Rubber strengthens partnership with EV maker Leapmotor
Added: 7 Sep 2023
Chinese tire maker has been supplying OE tires for three models in recent years

Essentially Rubber: Where the rubber hits the pitch
Added: 7 Sep 2023
Leading-edge designs and applications showing how elastomer materials...

Lehvoss expands compounding operation in China
Added: 6 Sep 2023
Doubles the area of the compounding operation and technology unit to a total of 5,000m2