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Michelin advances digital passport initiative for tires in Europe
Added: 25 Mar 2025
Pilot project for tire manufacturers, recyclers, ELT collectors, retreaders and fleet managers...
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Natural rubber markets remain subdued
Added: 25 Mar 2025
RSS3 futures edge lower in Far East trading but TSR20 prices make marginal gains...
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Top Glove sees earnings rise 200% in second quarter
Added: 25 Mar 2025
Gloves market uptrend continues as orders increase amid recovery in global demand

ASTM targets standard for synthetic turf used in playgrounds
Added: 25 Mar 2025
Proposed guidelines will cover specification, purchase, installation and maintenance

KTL develops non-destructive system for tire deflation tests
Added: 25 Mar 2025
Controlled from inside the test vehicle or remotely, device simulates rapid deflation without punct…

Bridgestone raising tire prices in Japan
Added: 25 Mar 2025
Decision in response to soaring prices of raw materials, logistics costs in domestic market

UPM provides update on Leuna RFFs project
Added: 24 Mar 2025
‘Sequential start-up continues, with integrated commercial production of the site expected to start…

Cordiant starts tire production at former Bridgestone plant
Added: 24 Mar 2025
Renamed as Gislaved Ulyanovsk, facility resumes manufacturing after two years of inactivity

Hainan Rubber mulls rubber plants in Cambodia, Laos
Added: 24 Mar 2025
Move part of Chinese group’s plan to optimise overseas industrial network for NR supply

Linglong Tire opens first 'training centre' outside China
Added: 24 Mar 2025
Unit to provide "professional and high-quality brand experience" for retailers and customers

NOK in project to develop 'ultra-thin' wearable sensors
Added: 24 Mar 2025
Japanese group aims to launch rubber-based sensors as a medical device in 2026

Semperit raises 2024 earnings amid stable revenue
Added: 21 Mar 2025
Austrian rubber products manufacturer meets profit goal with ‘all strategic milestones achieved’
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Rubber & tire industry in numbers
Added: 21 Mar 2025
Review of the key figures and data to emerge over the last seven days from leading players worldwide

Yokohama closing hose manufacturing plant in US
Added: 21 Mar 2025
Japanese group's facility in Kentucky produces hose assemblies for automotive industry

Enviro reports progress on Swedish tire pyrolysis plant
Added: 21 Mar 2025
Infiniteria joint venture facility in Uddevalla 'ready for installation of production equipment'

Covestro upgrades German TDI plant
Added: 21 Mar 2025
Modernised plant consumes 80% less energy than conventional processes

Yokohama Rubber is ‘winning bidder’ for Euro Tire assets
Added: 20 Mar 2025
Romanian off-road tire maker filed for insolvency in 2018, citing financial difficulties linked to …

Freudenberg seals safer drinking water supply
Added: 20 Mar 2025
New EPDM compound for O-rings can “protect public health and meet the demands of modern drinking wa…

China Sunsine set to complete rubber insoluble sulphur project
Added: 20 Mar 2025
Project to double production capacity at Shanxian plant to 60ktpa

Sumitomo advances understanding of rubber breakdown mechanism
Added: 20 Mar 2025
Materials behaviour that determines tire durability was focus of joint research with leading author…