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Pyrum in joint project to build tire recycling plant in Sweden
Added: 8 Mar 2024
Announces planned link-up with GreenTech Recycling Tires for ELT processing facility at Billingsfor…

ERJ: Rubber & tire industry in numbers
Added: 8 Mar 2024
Pirelli... Kumho/Blatco... Firemax... Conti results... YRC... Tristone... Rubber shares... US tire …

Towards a sustainable future for natural rubber smallholders
Added: 8 Mar 2024
Engagement and collaboration key to sustainability, writes Chen Chee Wei, impacts and assurance ass…

Hankook rolls out recycled-PET-reinforced iON tires
Added: 8 Mar 2024
Project in collaboration with SK Chemicals and Hyosung Advanced Materials produces 45% sustainable …

German rubber industry urges measures to cut red-tape
Added: 8 Mar 2024
"The burden of bureaucracy has now reached a level that is almost impossible for medium-sized compa…

ERJ: News stories of the week
Added: 8 Mar 2024
Most widely-read news reports posted on the European Rubber Journal website over the last seven days

Conti reports diverging results for Tires and ContiTech units
Added: 7 Mar 2024
Drop in sales and earnings at Tires group in 2023 contrasts with gains reported at industrial produ…

Pirelli earmarks €820m for investments under new industrial plan
Added: 7 Mar 2024
Tire maker targets gains of €275m through efficiency programme, leveraging digitalisation and autom…

Evonik cutting 2,000 jobs to address "massive" changes in economic environment
Added: 7 Mar 2024
Chairman: "We must not delude ourselves, even if there are slight signs of a recovery...”
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US tire makers expect volumes to grow in 2024
Added: 7 Mar 2024
USTMA's February forecast signals return to 2019 levels across most market categories

Bridgestone starting ‘public road’ trials of airless tire
Added: 7 Mar 2024
Tests to be launched ahead of plans to commercialise “next-generation” tire

Pyrum progresses second German tire pyrolysis plant
Added: 7 Mar 2024
“Clear-cutting work” begins on the site of new facility in Perl-Besch, Saarland

Chemours places top executives on leave amid internal probe
Added: 7 Mar 2024
CEO, CFO and VP, controller and principal accounting officer on administrative leave as underway

Goodyear dismisses reports of plan to sell Fürstenwalde tire plant
Added: 6 Mar 2024
German tire production unit is scheduled to close in 2027 with the loss of 750 jobs

Kumho, Blatco agree 'technology-transfer' for Saudi tire plant
Added: 6 Mar 2024
Black Arrow Tire aims to build 10 million units/year factory in a western Saudi Arabia by 2027

Datwyler link-up to launch dielectric elastomer actuators
Added: 6 Mar 2024
Collaborating with Momentive, BSC Computer for electronic control units to supply high-voltage to i…

German hose maker Tristone posts ‘record sales’, ‘highest order intake in history’
Added: 6 Mar 2024
Demand balanced between EV battery-cooling products, normal combustion engine cooling lines

Kraiburg TPE develops 73% sustainable elastomer for automotive market
Added: 6 Mar 2024
New compounds to replace the current recycling-based solutions for the market in 2024

Firemax to build $190m tire plant in Cambodia
Added: 5 Mar 2024
Company joining list of major Chinese tire makers that are investing in the country

Natural rubber futures mixed amid ‘position adjustments’
Added: 5 Mar 2024
Osaka rubber futures decline, Chinese markets gain and Singapore holds steady