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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…

Michelin, partners launch €60m innovation park project in France

Added: 7 Apr 2024

Parc Cataroux project, involving private and public investors, set for opening end of 2025

India set to impose anti-dumping duties on Chinese TBR tires

Aeolus details plans to upgrade Chinese tire production facility

Added: 5 Apr 2024

Launching new €185-million project to add annual capacity for the manufacture of 'giant' off-road t…

Mesnac estimates 2015 revenue down by 15 percent

Mesnac posts jump in profits despite dip in sales

Added: 5 Apr 2024

Chinese group links 2023 earnings growth to investments in innovation, including integrated automat…

Indian government decides against duties on NBR from EU, China, Japan and Russia

India starts antidumping probe into insoluble sulphur imports from China, Japan

Added: 5 Apr 2024

Oriental Carbon and Chemicals triggers investigation into imports of the rubber chemical from China…

ETRMA signs 'Antwerp declaration' for European Industrial Deal

Added: 5 Apr 2024

European tire & rubber association joins over 900 organisations urging EU enhance competitiveness t…

Ammanford, UK –Technology companies Haydale and Artis have linked up with Trelleborg Antivibration Solutions to investigate plasma-functionalisation of recovered carbon black (dCB) from scrap tires.

Fraunhofer launches cross-institute project to develop bio-rubber

Added: 5 Apr 2024

Project producing rubber monomers butadiene, isoprene and dimethylbutadiene from biobased alcohols

ContiTech says will close Veyance deal by yearend

Continental names new general manager for Romanian tire factory

Added: 5 Apr 2024

Serban Nicolescu takes over management of tire factory in Timișoara, effective 1 April

ERJ: News stories of the week

Added: 5 Apr 2024

Most widely-read news reports posted on the European Rubber Journal website over the last seven days

European tire markets in tough second half

ETRMA joins urgent, cross-sector call for clarification on EUDR

Added: 4 Apr 2024

22 industry bodies demand “urgent clarification and workable solutions” for implementation of EU de…

Sumitomo Rubber introducing technology to detect loose wheel nuts

Added: 4 Apr 2024

SRI already has one commercial OEM customer for the Sensing Core technology to reduce risk of runaw…

Datwyler cuts resource consumption, eyes CO2 neutrality

Volker Cwielong takes over as new Datwyler CEO

Added: 4 Apr 2024

Swiss rubber products group announced top-executive appointment in October last year

Sri Trang Gloves starts major capacity expansion 

Sri Trang impacted by El Nino, gloves over-supply in 2023

Added: 4 Apr 2024

Earnings decline 62% as both natural rubber and gloves segments report lower operating profits

Dow reports higher sales in second quarter

Dow appoints new Performance Materials & Coatings leader

Added: 4 Apr 2024

Brendy Lange was previously responsible for Dow's Industrial Solutions and the growth of its global…