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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
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Russian carbon black ban to cause “significant disruptions”
Added: 24 Jun 2024
PentaCarbon issues warning about impact of EU sanctions set to come into force at beginning of July
ERJ Appointments Tracker: May/June
Added: 23 Jun 2024
Latest people news and related developments from across the global rubber and tire industries...
Continental completes fourth expansion at China tire plant
Added: 21 Jun 2024
Once fully ramped up, plant production capacity to increase to 18 million tires per year
Kraiburg TPE targets UK market with new subsidiary
Added: 21 Jun 2024
Operations include warehouse in Stoke-on-Trent and ‘dedicated sales office’ in Stafford
Wacker breaks ground on new Silicones plant in Czech Republic
Added: 21 Jun 2024
Plant to produce room-temperature curing high-performance silicones by end of 2025 and high consist…
Shin-Etsu raising silicone prices
Added: 21 Jun 2024
Global price hikes linked to higher raw materials and energy costs for manufacturing
China's Black Cat starts construction work on €88m reinforced rubber facility
Added: 20 Jun 2024
Facility in China's Liaoning province to have capacity to produce 160ktpa of 'rubber composite mast…
LD Carbon raises $28m to scale up tire pyrolysis technology
Added: 20 Jun 2024
Toyota growth fund ‘Woven Capital’ led the Series C funding round, also supported by Hyundai Motor
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US sets hearing date for duties on Thai TBR tire imports
Added: 20 Jun 2024
Session to review antidumping duty rate of 2.35% on truck and bus tires originating in Thailand
Semperit starts search for new CEO as Haider steps down
Added: 20 Jun 2024
Appointed in 2022, Haider oversaw divestment of Sempermed, expansion to liquid silicone technology
Malaysia's natural rubber production drops 9% in April
Added: 20 Jun 2024
Month-on-month, NR production declined nearly 21% compared to March
EU antitrust authorities raid consultancy firm in tire cartel probe
Added: 19 Jun 2024
Consultancy firm "may have facilitated or instigated the suspected price coordination amongst tire …
Reka eyes M&As for next phase of growth
Added: 19 Jun 2024
Finnish group also announces management changes as head of rubber division departs
Michelin launches ‘unique’ ag tire building machine at French site
Added: 19 Jun 2024
‘Cosmos’ uses new technology adapted to the specificities of manufacturing of agricultural tires
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Philippines looking to revitalise natural rubber industry
Added: 19 Jun 2024
Signs agreement for a new research facility in Zamboanga Sibugay, ‘rubber capital’ of the country
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Essentially Rubber: Decathlon unveils 100% natural rubber wetsuit
Added: 19 Jun 2024
Sports goods and apparel major says it has completely replaced synthetic rubber in new material for…
Rubber futures snap five-week rally
Added: 18 Jun 2024
Declines across all major Far East markets linked to “substantial long liquidation and speculative …
New SRI technique to measure atomic motion in rubber across wide time spans
Added: 18 Jun 2024
‘Synchrotron radiation technique’ to help develop tires with “high strength and excellent wear resi…
Michelin, Danone setting up ‘biotech open platform’
Added: 18 Jun 2024
Project partners, also including US startup DMC Biotechnologies, to advance ‘precision fermentation…
