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ERJ Business Briefing: July/Aug
Added: 5 Sep 2024
Tracking the latest announcements and new business developments in the global rubber and tire indus…
Saint-Gobain divests automotive components business
Added: 5 Sep 2024
Freeglass operations include overmoulding glazing components using technically adhesive elastomers……
Reiners takes over product management for Conti agricultural tires
Added: 5 Sep 2024
Economics graduate was previously product manager for private brands in Conti’s PC/LT tires’ busine…
Three tire recycling projects included in Australian waste recovery initiative
Added: 5 Sep 2024
Projects, to be implemented in the Western Australia state, particularly focus on recycling of OTR …
Toyo Tire details R&D, production process initiatives to grow markets
Added: 5 Sep 2024
Tire maker is “gradually increasing” production capacity in US to support “tremendous” demand for l…
Bridgestone starts series production of 55% sustainable-material tire
Added: 4 Sep 2024
Being mass-produced in Italy, the Potenza Sport A tires has already been chosen as OE for new Audi …
Dunlop Aircraft Tyres reports business recovery, Chinese acquisition
Added: 4 Sep 2024
UK-based aircraft tire maker returns to profit with aviation industry now back to pre-pandemic work…
Gecko-inspired TPUs add grip to ‘circular’ footwear
Added: 4 Sep 2024
Huntsman claims step forward with urethane soling materials that can match the performance to rubbe…
Nova unveils first rallycross tire at French championship
Added: 4 Sep 2024
Tire maker replicates Cooper's ACB11 tire at manufacturing facility in Palmeira, Portugal
Outside track: Driving up energy-efficiency
Added: 4 Sep 2024
Q&A with Fausto Belotti, global segment manager, rubber and plastic, ABB Motion
Industry majors link up for 'closed loop' tire initiative
Added: 3 Sep 2024
Partner with Portuguese tire pyrolysis company BB&G to use end-of-life tires in production of new t…
China’s Transfer Chemicals starts production at 120ktpa ‘rare-earth’ rubber plant
Added: 3 Sep 2024
New capacity to make Jiaxing City facility “the largest single-site butadiene rubber factory in the…
Wacker Silicones reports 73% earnings growth in second quarter
Added: 3 Sep 2024
Earnings improvement mainly due to positive volume and product mix effects
General Science rolls out first tire at Cambodian expansion project
Added: 3 Sep 2024
“Cost-effective Chinese tires have become increasingly favoured by European and American consumers,…
Rubber futures prices maintain momentum amid supply concerns
Added: 2 Sep 2024
Major markets report five-week high as demand outpaced production in first seven months of this yea…
Roxanna Petrovic elected leader of the IISRP
Added: 2 Sep 2024
Replaces Juan Ramon Salinas as head of the International Institute of Synthetic Rubber Producers
Shandong Jinyu project to expand capacity at TBR plant
Added: 2 Sep 2024
Chinese tire manufacturer investing €32m in “green intelligent manufacturing upgrade...”
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Gates switches to ethylene elastomers for upgraded V-belts
Added: 2 Sep 2024
Starts production of olefinic elastomer-based V-belts in Europe to ‘shorten lead times and increase…
Qemetica in €280m deal to acquire PPG silicas business
Added: 30 Aug 2024
Polish group is a major supplier of silicate raw materials for silica production and of soda ash fr…
Natural rubber production grows in first half despite output declines in Asia
Added: 30 Aug 2024
But ANRPC revises down production outlook marginally due to adjustments by The Philippines and Viet…
