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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…

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

Benecke-Kaliko, Hornschuch surface materials to be branded Continental

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 announces €2bn investment plan to upgrade technology, capacity

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...” 

US tire shipments likely to fall 18% in 2020

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