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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 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

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

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
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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 …

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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