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EU begins moves to introduce restrictions on use of 6PPD in tires

Added: 2 May 2025

ETRMA: Austrian and Dutch authorities expected to submit restriction proposals within the next 18 m…

Versalis posts elastomer-business declines in 2019

Eni pushing ahead with cracker closures at loss-making Versalis

Added: 2 May 2025

Transformation plan over the next five years could deliver €1bn improvement in annual earnings...

Trelleborg seals advance for high-speed EV motors

Added: 2 May 2025

Fluoroelastomer component designed to perform at shaft speeds of over 20,000rpm

Rubber & tire industry in numbers

Added: 2 May 2025

Review of the key figures and data to emerge over the last seven days from leading players worldwide

Contec opens rubber laboratory facility in Poland

Added: 2 May 2025

GumLab to help Polish tire recycler advance rubber compounding and material testing

Europe drives Nexen’s “record high” quarterly sales

Added: 1 May 2025

South Korean tire maker reports improved earnings on additional volume from Czech plant

Toyoda Gosei restructuring China operation, focusing on electrification

Added: 1 May 2025

Group reports decline in annual sales, earnings due to lower automotive production

Wacker reports 33% growth in silicones earnings

Added: 1 May 2025

Speciality products mainly drive higher sales at the German chemicals supplier

Pirelli to sell Nordic tire retail arm to CTS

Added: 1 May 2025

Enters long-term partnership with CTS to increase supply of Pirelli tires in northern Europe

German rubber industry calls for ‘immediate economic policy shift’

Added: 1 May 2025

WDK holds 'rubber industry day' in Berlin, where it urges government to support SMEs

ZC Rubber investing €215m to double capacity at 5G tire factory

Added: 30 Apr 2025

‘Future Factory’ in Hangzhou, China, was inaugurated in late 2023 and has capacity to produce 10m P…

ExxonMobil eyes “significant” cost-cutting amid Covid-19 outbreak

Tariffs 'could hit profitability' of US petchems, rubber producers'

Added: 30 Apr 2025

Hyde: Trade wars threaten to undermine current 'golden era' for US petrochemicals industry…

Michelin taps Thales technology to scale software business

Added: 30 Apr 2025

Allows French group to license and manage software products, protect intellectual property

Brussels  – Natural rubber has been included on the EU’s ‘critical raw material list’, the European Tyre & Rubber Manufacturers’ Association (ETRMA) has reported.

Sumitomo Riko offers new insights into behaviour of natural rubber

Added: 30 Apr 2025

Joint study explores the effects of metabolites and other components on the material properties of …

Dow announces “high-return” expansions in silicones business

Dow extends European asset review to further reduce spending

Added: 30 Apr 2025

US chemicals major studying three more upstream sites in addition to previously announced PU assets…

Kraton buying Arizona Chemical for $1.4bn

Kraton raises synthetic elastomer prices in response to tariffs

Added: 30 Apr 2025

Undisclosed price hike to apply to North American market, effecitve 1 May

EU new car demand drops 2% in first quarter

Added: 30 Apr 2025

But BEV market share grows to more than 15% of overall market

Pirelli “contains” Covid effects, further cuts sales outlook 

Pirelli ends Sinochem's 'control' to safeguard US market position

Added: 29 Apr 2025

Major Chinese shareholder expresses "deep disappointment and firm opposition" to the vote

Continental to discontinue tire production at Malaysian plant

Added: 29 Apr 2025

Group to end passenger car/motorcycle tire manufacturing at Alor Setar factory by yearend 

China opens natural rubber R&D centre

Rubber futures remain under pressure amid light trading

Added: 29 Apr 2025

“Recent sharp downturn in prices has left many traders hesitant,” according to JPX