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Conti finance chief Katja Garcia Vila to step down

Added: 13 Mar 2024

German group's CFO will not “seek to extend contract” after it expires at the end of the year

Sailun to expand TBR capacity in China

Sailun unveils plan to establish $250m Indonesia tire plant

Added: 12 Mar 2024

Facility to have the capacity to produce 3.6 million passenger car tires, 37ktpa of off-highway pro…

Sri Trang launches ‘GPS tires’ scheme to meet rubber traceability rules

Added: 12 Mar 2024

Development intended to increase competitiveness of Thai NR industry ahead of EU deforestation-free…

Updated: Bridgestone investing over €200m in Spanish tire plant

Added: 12 Mar 2024

Burgos facility will see a 75% increase in larger-rim tire capacity to over 7 million units/year...

Sinopec trials China’s first SEPS elastomers facility

Marubeni investing in German 'refined' recovered carbon black maker

Added: 12 Mar 2024

Funds to go towards construction of RCBNano's commercial facility to produce ‘chemically refined’ r…

Camso extends R&D partnership on rubber tracks for farming robots

Added: 12 Mar 2024

Links up with farming robotics experts Naio Technologies to advance ‘electrically driven rubber tra…

Dayco starts ‘full scale’ production of automotive belts at Mexico plant

Added: 12 Mar 2024

Facility in San Luis Potosi produces “original equipment-quality” drive belts

Goodyear to close Malaysian tire manufacturing plant by yearend

Added: 11 Mar 2024

Decision part of Goodyear Forward plan which targets savings across group's production footprint wo…

Guizhou Tyre expanding engineering tire capacity

Guizhou Tyre planning €200m passenger car tire plant in Vietnam

Added: 11 Mar 2024

Chinese tire maker completes first phase of TBR tire project in the south east Asian country

Akwel reports business gains but plant closure to weigh on 2024 result

Added: 11 Mar 2024

Automotive supplier sales up strongly in 2023 though group foresees impact from facility closure in…

Rubber futures rise on speculation around Chinese recovery

Added: 11 Mar 2024

Major Far East exchanges monitored by JPX reported week-on-week increases in NR pricing

Korean synthetic rubber suppliers in expansion mode

Kumho Petrochemical in link-up to establish bio-monomer supply-chain

Added: 11 Mar 2024

Deal with SK geo centric, Tongsuh Petrochemical targets sustainable butadiene, acrylonitrile

SNCP backs French tire-granulate safety report

European synthetic turf council pledges support for rubber infill alternatives

Added: 11 Mar 2024

Synthetic turf industry preparing for “phased introduction” of alternatives to tire rubber, reitera…

Focus on: Pirelli’s Cinturato All Season SF3 tire

Added: 11 Mar 2024

Italian maker employs advanced tread, polymer, virtualisation technologies in development of tire

Pirelli 'disposes' its Venezuelan tire plant to South American investors

Price/mix trend buoys Pirelli earnings amid rising costs

Added: 8 Mar 2024

Sales improve only marginally reflecting a 6.3% negative impact of foreign exchange conversion 

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 …

Expert says NR demand to grow 3.2% in 2015

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 …

QEW acquires Dutch rubber compounder

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…