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Nokian, UPM in linkup to employ wood-based fillers in tires

Added: 27 Jun 2024

Finnish tire maker ‘licensing its patent’ to UPM to provide renewable raw materials to tire industr…

Thailand looks to cut back on natural rubber output

ANRPC revises up natural rubber demand in 2024

Added: 27 Jun 2024

Supply impacted by reduced interest from farmers, challenges such as adverse climate conditions

Trelleborg advancing sealing technology for e-bike applications

Added: 27 Jun 2024

Will showcase housing seals, bearing and shaft seals, seals made of liquid silicone rubber and mult…

Report: Indonesia to build €88m rubber oil refinery

Chemours resumes TiO2 production in Mexico

Added: 27 Jun 2024

Manufacturer halted production last month in response to ‘severe drought’ 

Nokian ramps up US tire factory, set to open Romanian plant

Added: 26 Jun 2024

Finnish tire maker opens a new finished goods warehouse in Dayton, Tennessee

Synthos, Lummus in link-up for bio-butadiene production

Synthos reports fire at Polish production plant

Added: 26 Jun 2024

Fire broke out 21 June during the start-up of a production line at the polymers & chemicals site

Waste tire pyrolysis 'gaining traction among investors worldwide'

Added: 26 Jun 2024

BIR Copenhagen: Pyrolysis 'becoming very attractive and no longer the poor relation of recycling in…

Trelleborg opens hydrogen testing lab in US

Added: 26 Jun 2024

New Trelleborg Sealing Solutions facility in Indiana to support hydrogen value-chain

ECHA committee rejects excluding ‘certain PFAS’ from blanket ban

Added: 26 Jun 2024

Committees reach ‘provisional conclusions’ on consumer mixture, cosmetic, ski wax and metal applica…

Intelligent processing solution for complete recycling of end-of-life tires

Added: 26 Jun 2024

Contributed article by Patrick Buder, sustainability strategy manager at Zeppelin Systems GmbH

Japan’s Kuraray increases elastomer prices

Kuraray raising elastomer prices

Added: 26 Jun 2024

Japanese group cites increasing feedstock prices, utility, and logistics costs for the move

Findlay, Ohio – Endurica CL is the latest version 2.6 of its fatigue life analysis software, from Endurica LLC, a software company that provides pre-prototype solutions for developers of tires and other durable rubber and elastomer products.

Endurica expands European presence with new management appointment

Added: 25 Jun 2024

Appoints Wes McMinimy as business development manager to provide localised support and services to …

Enso to build $500m EV tire plant in US

Added: 25 Jun 2024

Partners with Rockwell and design group Arup to build ‘America’s first carbon-neutral tire factory’…

Uncertainty looms over NR market as demand weakens

GPSNR introduces assurance system for natural rubber sustainability

Added: 25 Jun 2024

System can “verify and cross-check the implementation of members’ commitments”

Schwalbe taps Pyrum rCB for 70% circular tires

Added: 25 Jun 2024

Using recovered carbon black from ‘own tire recycling’ in series production of sustainable tires

Covestro IPO to raise €2.5bn

Covestro in ‘concrete negotiations’ with Adnoc over potential takeover

Added: 25 Jun 2024

Potential offer of €62/share values German speciality chemicals supplier at just under €12bn

EU new car registrations down 3% in May

Added: 25 Jun 2024

Share of battery electric vehicles drops to 12.5%, while hybrid-electric cars continue to expand pr…

Rubber futures in retreat as supply concerns ease

Added: 24 Jun 2024

Pricing on all major markets in Far East closes lower for a second week in a row

Conti in employee-transfer deal with defence sector major

Added: 24 Jun 2024

German group to support Rheinmetall’s “fast-growing personnel requirements” in the coming years

Shah Alam, Malaysia – Higher raw material prices have driven down annual profit at Malaysian rubber gloves manufacturer Top Glove Corp. Bhd, despite a strong fourth quarter performance and higher sales volumes in 2017.

Top Glove poised for rebound as volumes continue to grow

Added: 24 Jun 2024

“More robust performance” primarily due to stronger demand as customers replenished inventories