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Guill Tool & Engineering at K2025

Added: 1 Jul 2025

Extrusion tooling and technologies lined up for Duesseldorf plastics & rubber expo

Kobelco to expand rubber, tire machinery plant in India

Added: 30 Jun 2025

Japanese group announces €18m investment plan to support automotive growth in India

Evonik adding capacity for polybutadiene products in China

Added: 30 Jun 2025

German supplier to ‘localise final step’ for production of Polyvest, which can be used in tire, rub…

BASF investing in German tire pyrolysis company

Pyrum given green light for early start of construction at second German plant

Added: 30 Jun 2025

Groundbreaking for new Perl-Besch facility set to take place next month

Contec delivers first shipments of tire pyrolysis oil to Orion

Added: 30 Jun 2025

Delivery part of a “long-term” deal for TPO supply for production of ‘circular carbon black’

Michelin signs €2m deal for employment revitalisation in Vannes

Added: 30 Jun 2025

French group pledges to create 'as many jobs as lost' after plant closure

Continental buys Czech tire machine tool maker

Conti says all European tire plants ISCC+ certified

Added: 30 Jun 2025

Continental’s tire manufacturing plant in Hefei, China, also receives certification

Michelin expects volume decline in 2025 as forex, inflation weigh on first half results

Added: 27 Jun 2025

French group says Cholet plant produced final tire in June, several months ahead of schedule

Rubber & tire industry in numbers

Added: 27 Jun 2025

Review of the key figures and data to emerge over the last seven days from leading players worldwide

Chemicals sector welcomes new ‘industrial framework’ for EU

Added: 27 Jun 2025

Cefic: Responds to industry calls to “restore the business case for investments in Europe…”

UPM gains triple sustainability certifications at soon-to-start biorefinery

Added: 27 Jun 2025

The €1.2bn Leuna facility will manufacture lignin-based functional fillers for tires, rubber produc…

Algerian tire maker advances €300m joint project with Doublestar

Added: 26 Jun 2025

Construction of rubber mixing workshop awarded to local company Rekima

Trelleborg inaugurates new facility extension in Malta

Added: 26 Jun 2025

Investment adds 4,000 sq.m. of manufacturing space for semiconductor and medical seals solutions

Klinger weighs potential impact of PFAS ban on fluoropolymer seals

Added: 26 Jun 2025

“Alternatives have consistently failed to meet at least one of these critical properties…”

ZC Rubber revises project funding after lower-than-expected IPO proceeds

Added: 26 Jun 2025

Chinese tire maker raised gross proceeds of Yuan4.06 billion, below the initial target of Yuan4.85 …

Sabic to permanently close UK naphtha cracker

Added: 26 Jun 2025

Olefins 6 facility in Wilton has been offline since 2020 and was to be converted to a gas cracker

Deadline approaching for Future Tire paper submission

Added: 26 Jun 2025

Event set for November in Prague will study big themes shaping the future of global tire industry

Conti board proposes dividend suspension

Conti confirms ContiTech divestment plan, adjusts sales outlook

Added: 25 Jun 2025

German group lowers 2025 outlook to reflect currency headwind, trade barriers

Update: Tariff-hit Chinese tire makers to “intensify” EU trade

EU member states push for further simplification of EUDR

Added: 25 Jun 2025

Support for proposals by Austria and Luxembourg to significantly reduce red-tape burden of the regu…

Trelleborg launches new sealing materials for EV battery cells

Added: 25 Jun 2025

EPDM, FKM and PFA compounds designed to improve efficiency and chemical resistance