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Versalis envisages future in bio-based chemistry
Added: 9 Oct 2024
Italian chemicals & polymers supplier aims to shift focus onto biochemicals, sustainable materials
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Q&A: Birla Carbon leader upbeat about long-term prospects, net-zero goals
Added: 9 Oct 2024
ERJ interview with John Loudermilk, president and chief executive officer of the Mumbai, India-base…
VDMA revises down forecast for polymer machinery sales in 2024
Added: 9 Oct 2024
"We still have to wait a little longer for the turnaround," says chairman of VDMA plastics & rubber…
Brussels must ‘come and see’ EUDR compliance efforts
Added: 8 Oct 2024
Malaysian Rubber Board: NR producers want to work in harmony with EU to deliver goals of deforestat…
Rubber markets mixed as traders track EU regulatory developments
Added: 8 Oct 2024
Futures markets in Japan and China gain while Singapore’s SICOM closes lower compared to the week b…
Toyo targets automotive unit efficiency with restructuring move
Added: 8 Oct 2024
Creates new department to be led by Tomihiro Saki, currently president of Toyo Automotive Parts (US…
Kuraray raising elastomer prices
Added: 8 Oct 2024
Third price hike of the year due to increasing feedstock prices, utility, and logistics costs
Solvay in talks to cease production of fluorinated acids at French site
Added: 8 Oct 2024
Salindres unit continues to deliver ‘negative financial performance’ due to unfavourable market con…
Lanxess exits polymer business with €460m sale of urethanes unit to Ube
Added: 7 Oct 2024
Move part of German group’s portfolio transformation, focus on speciality chemicals
Camfin raises stake in Pirelli as Brembo sells entire holding in tire maker
Added: 7 Oct 2024
Marco Tronchetti Provera’s investment vehicle now has 25.28% shareholding in Italian tire maker
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VMI opens new engineering, service centre in India
Added: 7 Oct 2024
Facility in Gujarat to serve the ‘extremely important’ Indian market, according to VMI chief Voortm…
Sibur expands production of styrenic elastomers
Added: 7 Oct 2024
Manufacturing plant in Nizhnekamsk modernised to increase capacity for SBS polymers
EU to delay deforestation law amid global concerns
Added: 4 Oct 2024
Brussels responds to doubts expressed by ‘global partners’ including during recent UN general assem…
Michelin marks 50 years of production at French tire plant
Added: 4 Oct 2024
Charts ‘industrial renaissance’ at Roanne site now focused on automated production of high-end tire…
Uber hopes to give Enso a lift with EV tire deal
Added: 4 Oct 2024
London-based start-up will offer electric vehicle tires at a discount to Uber drivers in UK and US
Seals maker Hultec aligns companies under single flag
Added: 4 Oct 2024
Move follows acquisition by Industrial Growth Partners and purchase of RieberLok
Vietnam olefins cracker meets all performance requirements
Added: 4 Oct 2024
Technip Energies has passed final performance acceptance test for facility in Long Son Island
ECHA committee agrees to revise PFAS emissions calculations
Added: 3 Oct 2024
New approach distinguishes between PFAS particle emissions and those that leach from materials
Evonik to expand silica production by 50% at US plant
Added: 3 Oct 2024
Investment driven by strong market demand for silica, particularly in manufacture of green tires
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Hübner claims ‘world first’ with automated uncoupling rubber gangways
Added: 3 Oct 2024
New technology allows uncoupling of transition systems “at the push of a button”
