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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 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
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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 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 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

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 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…

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…

Fraunhofer launches cross-institute project to develop bio-rubber
Added: 5 Apr 2024
Project producing rubber monomers butadiene, isoprene and dimethylbutadiene from biobased alcohols

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