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NR supply deficit fails to rekindle market

Market uncertainty weighs on natural rubber futures

Added: 8 Jul 2025

Except for OSE market, trading volume declined sharply across other three major rubber exchanges

Michelin subsidiary Hallite acquiring Italian seals maker Aston Seals

Added: 8 Jul 2025

Based in Carpi, Aston Seals operates in over 80 countries and supplies to a wide range of industries

Midland, Michigan –  DowDuPont Materials Science has started up world-scale ethylene and polyethylene (PE) production facilities in Freeport, Texas – with new olefinic rubber and elastomers units scheduled to follow.

Dow closing three upstream European assets amid “structural challenges” in region

Added: 8 Jul 2025

Basic siloxanes plant in Barry, UK, and ethylene cracker in Böhlen, Germany among facilities affect…

Metso to add new screen manufacturing centre in Romania

Added: 8 Jul 2025

New facility to improve service and supply for European, Central East Asian, and Middle Eastern mar…

Kumho Tire focusing on recovery from factory fire

Added: 8 Jul 2025

Major blaze broke out at Gwangju facility in Korea earlier in May

Bridgestone divests Venezuela operations

Bridgestone selling Thai carbon black business to Tokai Carbon

Added: 7 Jul 2025

Group restructuring carbon black business, maintaining operations in areas "directly linked to core…

The Gyöngyöshalász project, he continued, is running on-time with the first passenger car tires set to come out in January 2017. Truck tires output will start afterwards in early 2018.

Indian tire exports rise 9% to €2.5bn

Added: 7 Jul 2025

Industry on “strong growth trajectory”, according to trade association ATMA

Goodyear suspending tire production at Turkish plant for inventory adjustments

Added: 7 Jul 2025

Tire maker not to terminate employment contracts during temporary production halt

Hyosung Advanced Materials restructuring airbag business in North America

Added: 7 Jul 2025

GST Automotive Safety Components International to acquire airbag business from HS Hyosung USA

Trade union warns of Michelin job transfers to Romania, Poland

Added: 7 Jul 2025

CGT Michelin raises alarm over future of ‘white-collar work’ in Clermont-Ferrand

Bekaert divests steel wire business in Costa Rica, Ecuador, Venezuela

Added: 7 Jul 2025

Sale of business to Grupo AG part of portfolio transformation process by Belgian group

ERJ Appointments Tracker

Added: 4 Jul 2025

Synthomer... MacLellan Rubber appointment... Amaplast leaders... Aumovio IR exec... Linglong EMEA d…

Rubber & tire industry in numbers

Added: 3 Jul 2025

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

Top Glove stays ahead despite third-quarter headwinds

Added: 3 Jul 2025

Malaysian group reports strong nine-month performance amid ‘shifting global trends’

Korean researchers advance catalyst-based rubber recycling

Added: 3 Jul 2025

Dual-catalyst process developed by KAIST offers low-temperature alternative to traditional pyrolysis

Q&A: Michelin Resicare on road to RF-free future

Added: 3 Jul 2025

Bio-based tire cord adhesive claimed to be “the fastest-deployed RF-free system on the market…”

Chemical recycling start-up Novoloop raises €18m in new funding round

Added: 3 Jul 2025

Investment led by Taranis to help scale circular performance materials, including TPUs

Tire cord maker Shoujia Technology studies Romania for European plant

Added: 3 Jul 2025

European factory part of Chinese group's recently announced global expansion programme

Uncertainty looms over NR market as demand weakens

ANRPC expects marginal rubber production growth amid global economic uncertainty

Added: 3 Jul 2025

Consumption increases in May on 'surge' in downstream tire manufacturing... 

Qemetica highlights growing importance of tire silicas business

Added: 3 Jul 2025

“Crisis in European chemical industry is driving group to diversify operations and invest outside t…