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Bekaert targets growth in rubber reinforcement unit as core business

Added: 11 Apr 2024

“Safer, lighter and sustainable” rubber reinforcement expected to advance group's position in the n…

MesseKoeln cancels rescheduled Tire Cologne expo

The Tire Cologne 2024 set to help industry go ‘full circle’

Added: 11 Apr 2024

Circular economy will be central theme of the upcoming international tire trade expo in Cologne

Nova Motorsport acquires Portuguese tire manufacturer Camac

Added: 10 Apr 2024

New UK tire company says Camac factory will enable “reindustrialisation” of Avon product range

Tosoh launches ‘cellulose nanofiber-reinforced’ chloroprene rubber

Added: 10 Apr 2024

Collaboration with Japanese transmission-belts manufacturer Bando to establish commercial applicati…

Mexico launches ESBR dumping probe

Mexico imposes antidumping duties on Chinese car tires

Added: 10 Apr 2024

Move follows joint petition by Mexican subsidiaries of Bridgestone, Michelin and Conti as well as l…

Covid saw 90,000 short-time workers in German chemicals industry

Azelis to acquire German rubber & plastics chemicals distributor DBH

Added: 10 Apr 2024

Signs deal to purchase distribution arm of DBH, specialised in advanced materials and additives

Expert says NR demand to grow 3.2% in 2015

Malaysia’s natural rubber production up 9% in February

Added: 10 Apr 2024

Month-on-month production declines 2%, according to latest statistics from government ministry

Goodyear part of team awarded NASA lunar vehicle contract

Added: 10 Apr 2024

Lunar Dawn team to develop off-road vehicle for “living and working” on the moon surface

Orion breaks ground on battery materials plant in Texas

Added: 10 Apr 2024

La Porte facility to produce acetylene-based conductive additives for lithium-ion batteries

Ansell in €600m deal to acquire Kimberly-Clark PPE business

Added: 9 Apr 2024

Acquisition of Irving, Texas-based operations set for completion by September

Conti acquires moulds specialist for commercial vehicle, speciality tires

Added: 9 Apr 2024

Acquisition of Slovakia-based EMT “completes Continental's portfolio for mould making technology”

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Rubber futures mixed as ‘weak’ Chinese economy dampens sentiment

Added: 9 Apr 2024

RSS3 prices decline in Japan, China, while TSR20 futures pricing held steady on INE and SICOM excha…

Zeon in linkup to commercialise bio-isoprene monomers

Added: 9 Apr 2024

Visolis combines AI, synthetic biology and catalysis technologies to produce 'carbon negative' chem…

Denka downgrades elastomers unit forecast, notes chloroprene woes

Added: 9 Apr 2024

Reports weak demand for chloroprene rubber, cost increases at Denka Performance Elastomers in the U…

German rubber society DKG names new managing director

Added: 9 Apr 2024

Prof. Herbert Baaser to head Deutsche Kautschuk-Gesellschaft starting 1 July 

Kumho to relocate, consolidate Nanjing plants

Kumho launches 'technical transformation' at Chinese tire plant

Added: 8 Apr 2024

Tire maker redefines 'phase III' to centre focus on ‘new energy’ car tires at Nanjing facility

Kemya, Continental Carbon start Saudi carbon black plant

India’s Nocil to expand rubber chemicals capacity

Added: 8 Apr 2024

Investment will “enhance presence in both domestic as well as international markets..."

Kuraray to set up carbon materials unit in restructuring

Kuraray raising elastomer prices globally

Added: 8 Apr 2024

Japanese company links the move to increasing feedstock prices, utility and logistics costs

Essentially Rubber: Virtual reality

Added: 8 Apr 2024

Leading-edge designs and applications showing how elastomer materials...

Sumitomo creates regional HQs in major restructuring

Sumitomo Rubber sets up sulphur-based battery research group

Added: 8 Apr 2024

'Leveraging our knowledge of sulphur, which is essential for tire manufacturing, to develop cathode…