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FST acquiring German sealing specialist Trygonal

Added: 7 May 2024

Acquisition expected to strengthen group's Freudenberg Xpress ‘rapid prototyping’ business 

Kraiburg TPE advances elastomer compounds for automotive sealing

Added: 7 May 2024

Formulated for exterior use, compounds can be used in TPE-EPDM hybrids for glass run channels and s…

Uzer Makina lists progress with sustainability projects

Added: 7 May 2024

Turkey-based tire machinery maker targets, ethics, biodiversity, recycling, electrical presses

Michelin-licensed rubber plant in Indonesia to start production in 2018

Global chemicals production rises on picks-up in demand

Added: 7 May 2024

VCI: February sees strong growth in chemicals production while pharma segment declines 

Italian tire distributor Magri inks partnership deal with GRI

Added: 4 May 2024

Collaboration follows last year’s acquisition of fellow Italian distributor Donati Gomme

BP chemicals plant facility

BP, Circtec ink eight-year supply deal for tire-derived fuel, feedstock

Added: 3 May 2024

Agreement includes €12.5m funding to advance a Circtec’ plant expansion in The Netherlands

Union questions Michelin 'social plan' amid job losses, plant closures

Added: 3 May 2024

CGT claims move a 'diversion' as French tire maker axes thousands of jobs in Europe and US...

Enviro expects to finalise Michelin partnership deal by yearend

Enviro gains increased stake in tire recycling joint venture

Added: 3 May 2024

Receives additional €4.5m payment for costs incurred, half in shape of ownership share in JV with M…

Outside Track: Top trends impacting the industrial workforce

Added: 3 May 2024

ERJ's Outside Track reports cover news, views & developments from across the wider process and manu…

Rubber shares tracker: Ups & downs

German rubber industry sees signs of recovery in second half

Added: 2 May 2024

But WDK warns that 16% of companies plan to relocate production abroad due to pressure on earnings

Egyptian government 'supporting' Pyramids Tires development plans

Added: 2 May 2024

Prime minister Madbouli giving 'top priority' to promoting industries, such as tire manufacture...

Apollo establishes 'cut & chip' test track for EV tires

Added: 2 May 2024

Partners with testing and validation service company Natrax for the test track in India

ExxonMobil closing chemicals production unit in France

Added: 2 May 2024

Move to impact 677 jobs at Port-Jerome-sur-Seine facility, which has lost more than €500m since 201…

Electric vehicle market a ‘slow burner’ for tire makers

Added: 2 May 2024

By 2030, EVs will still only represent around 15% of the total vehicle parc, notes Robert Simmons, …

Dutch startup Meridia looks to scale up EUDR compliance tool

Added: 2 May 2024

Amsterdam company raises €5.2m to scale up real-time agri-commodity data verification system

Hankook trials new facilities at China plant

Hankook Tire reports strong growth on lower costs

Added: 1 May 2024

Korean tire maker posts 109% year-on-year increase in first quarter operating profit

Former Michelin Russian tire operations rebranded as Davydovo

Added: 1 May 2024

French group sold facility to distributor Power International Tires in May last year

Synthomer to close SBR latex facility in Finland

Synthomer completes divestment of latex compounding operations

Added: 1 May 2024

Process expected to result in "modest profit", includes two manufacturing sites in the Netherlands …

Beijing rubber factories’ short-lived ‘APEC blue’

ERJ Business Briefing - March/April

Added: 1 May 2024

Leaf Rubber IPO... Pyrum advances expansion... Engel investing 'significantly' in expansions... Rek…

Mitsubishi Chemical expanding performance polymers business in Asia

EU politicians, industry leaders call for ‘sustainable carbon’ policy package

Added: 1 May 2024

Cefic: Access to sustainable carbon will be “major enabler” for transformation of chemical sector