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Orion to present latest carbon black advances
Added: 30 Aug 2015
Kingwood, Texas – Orion Engineered Carbons will feature new carbon black technology that can improv…
Turkish Airlines seeks tire maker for retreading project
Added: 28 Aug 2015
London – Turkish Airlines is trying to find a tire manufacturer to help in setting up an aircraft t…
Conti rolls out run-flats from Slovak plant
Added: 28 Aug 2015
Puchov, Slovakia – Matador tire company, part of Continental AG, has rolled out a test series of ru…
European polymer prices under pressure
Added: 28 Aug 2015
London - After four months of sharply rising notations, European standard thermoplastic prices took…
Lanxess starts up new Nd-BR plant in Singapore
Added: 28 Aug 2015
Singapore– Lanxess AG officially inaugurated its new neodymium butadiene rubber (Nd-BR) plant in Si…
Orion hiking carbon black prices
Added: 27 Aug 2015
Kingwood, Texas – Orion Engineered Carbons is increasing prices of its speciality carbon blacks by …
Semperit gloves factory to open in Malaysia, expansion on agenda
Added: 27 Aug 2015
Vienna – Semperit AG is set to open a new gloves production plant in Malaysian in 2016, the group a…
Analysis: Impact of US import duties still murky
Added: 27 Aug 2015
Akron, Ohio – A strange thing happened along the path to throttling the Chinese threat to the US ti…
Apollo expands Man U football deal to 129 countries
Added: 27 Aug 2015
Gurgaon, India – Apollo Tyres has extended its marketing association with Manchester United Footbal…
Researchers probe microbes for a future polymer building block
Added: 27 Aug 2015
Golden, Colorado - Microbes commonly found in moist, natural environments could eventually be a sou…
Mitsubishi Chemical adds TPE distributor in Germany
Added: 26 Aug 2015
Tiffauges, France – MItsubishi Chemical Performance Polymers (MCPP) has started a distribution agre…
Guizhou Tire to raise €100m in medium-term notes
Added: 26 Aug 2015
Guizhou, China – Shenzhen-listed Guizhou Tire has received regulators’ approval for the issuance of…
Bridgestone starts conveyor belt plant in Thailand
Added: 25 Aug 2015
Tokyo – Bridgestone NCR Co. Ltd, a subsidiary of Bridgestone Corp., has started production of conve…
Lotte Ube synthetic rubber plant opens in Malaysia
Added: 25 Aug 2015
Tokyo - Lotte Ube Synthetic Rubber (LUSR) has opened a plant for the manufacture of butadiene rubbe…
Strike threat at Hankook – report
Added: 25 Aug 2015
Seoul – South Korean tire maker Hankook may face its first ever workers’ strike, news reports from …
Michelin Nova Scotia plant revamp complete
Added: 25 Aug 2015
Pictou, Nova Scotia – Michelin North America (Canada) Inc. has completed the phase-out of nearly al…
Propylene blast shuts down Czech plant
Added: 25 Aug 2015
Prague – Czech chemicals producer Unipetrol AS has been forced to shut down its key petrochemicals …
Guizhou Tire to open new speciality tire plants in 2017
Added: 24 Aug 2015
Guizhou, China - Guizhou Tire is building a new speciality tire project including the relocation of…
Dalian Rubber & Plastics Machinery’s main shareholder to sell 30% stake
Added: 24 Aug 2015
Liaoning, China – Dalian Rubber & Plastics Machinery (DRPM)’s controlling shareholder Dalian State-…
Trinseo to commercialise Nd-BR production in 2016
Added: 24 Aug 2015
Horgen, Switzerland – Trinseo is set to commercialise its neodymium butadiene rubber (Nd-BR) offeri…
