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Klean Industries, L4T join forces to advance waste tire recycling
Added: 17 Jun 2024
Initial efforts to be focused on development of an ELT pyrolysis project in Koriyama, Japan

Freudenberg Sealing’s aftermarket unit expanding ‘heavy-duty' portfolio
Added: 17 Jun 2024
Corteco currently producing radial shaft seals for heavy machinery, planning to add accumulators

Kumho intensifies focus on new energy tires
Added: 15 Jun 2024
Launches new EnnoV tires ‘open up new growth space and brings broad market prospects’

Kraiburg TPE gains 'recycled standard’ cert in Malaysia
Added: 15 Jun 2024
GRS scheme applies “stringent” social and environmental criteria throughout the production process.…

Mesnac to build rubber machinery factories in Vietnam, Cambodia
Added: 14 Jun 2024
Two projects, with total cost of €18m, are to be implemented in less two years

Zeon taking over ownership of elastomers JV with Sumitomo Chemical
Added: 14 Jun 2024
Japanese groups to dissolve the SSBR joint venture by 30 Sept, before it becomes a 'wholly owned' s…

Alfagomma building naval hose production line at Italian military facility
Added: 14 Jun 2024
Group also completes construction of a new hydraulic hose plant in Guaranesia, Brazil

German polymer machinery segment reports strong 2023, but orders slump
Added: 14 Jun 2024
VDMA data points to ‘issue of underutilisation’ as companies complete order backlog

Metso starts up new distribution centre in Chile
Added: 14 Jun 2024
“Modern centre will considerably increase Metso’s capability to deliver equipment, spare and wear p…

Zeon to discontinue 60% of rubber production at Japanese facility
Added: 13 Jun 2024
Remaining 40% of production to focus on ‘highly profitable synthetic rubber groups'

Bridgestone Americas cutting jobs at US farm tire plant
Added: 13 Jun 2024
Tire maker set to dismiss nearly 120 employees in response to 'demand constraints'

Circtec secures waste tire supply with Granuband acquisition
Added: 13 Jun 2024
Dutch tire recycler integrated into Circtec as ‘feedstock subsidiary’ to support Delfzijl ELT pyrol…

Orion taps tire pyrolysis oil at Polish carbon black unit
Added: 13 Jun 2024
Installs “multiple tanks" to pump TPO in furnace black reactors for production of circular grades a…

EU set to impose countervailing duties on Chinese electric cars
Added: 13 Jun 2024
ACEA calls for ‘a robust European industrial strategy’ in face of global competition

Borealis, Covestro, Neste to convert scrap tires into car parts
Added: 12 Jun 2024
Materials suppliers aim to jointly establish new recycling loop for the automotive industry...

New project aims to build $90m tire plant in Pakistan
Added: 12 Jun 2024
Armstrong Tyres to produce 1.4m units of passenger car, light truck tires for local replacement mar…

Strike at Sumitomo Rubber tire plant in Turkey
Added: 12 Jun 2024
Industrial action started 29 May following breakdown of bargaining negotiations

Kraton to increase styrenic copolymer prices
Added: 12 Jun 2024
General price hike of $220 per tonne will come into effect as of July, according to US supplier

Rubber futures rally on reports of China ‘stockpiling’ plans
Added: 11 Jun 2024
Major Far East markets report fifth week of gains, as Osaka futures reach seven-year high

Zeon increasing prices for thermoplastic elastomers
Added: 11 Jun 2024
Japanese group links decision to 'continuous' increases in the cost of raw materials, utility and l…